Morgan DeVoe ND

Much of my work involves treatment and rehabilitation of the digestive system, where many dis-ease processes start. Problems from head (depression/anxiety) to toe (toenail fungus) and everything in between are greatly impacted by gut health and healing. So here is what you need to do for a healthy gut: eat Whole Foods, lots of veggies, chew well until your food is a paste for max absorption of nutrients, avoid sugar at all costs, eat fermented foods and make sure to have a bowel movement every day!!!!
Reflux, diarrhea, constipation, gas, bloating, abdominal pain, frequent yeast infections or UTIs could mean you have an imbalance in your gut flora, and need further guidance to correct the imbalance. Naturopaths are here to help!

Here is the last one!!

🌿First Do No Harm- see previous post!
🌿The Healing Power of Nature- see previous post!
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause- see previous post!
🌿Doctor as Teacher- See previous post!
🌿Treat the Whole Person-see previous post!
🌿Prevention

Do you want to live a long, healthy life? Yes! Of course!

To a Naturopath, longevity means more than just checking your cholesterol every year, getting a colonoscopy and making sure you dont develop diabetes. Those things are important of course, but NDs can look at your blood work and prevent diabetes and heart disease years before it starts! We are also trained in and in fact, we were the original functional medicine doctors. So if you strive to live happily until you are 100, and still be able to talk to your kids, grans and great-grans, find your nearest ND and start a truly preventative plan!

This is my Granny Claire, she always grew a garden, took her supplements, exercised, ate healthily and did not need medication until her late 80s. She is 94 and living happily with her husband of 75 years! She was my very first teacher about true preventative health. Thank you, Granny! ❤️

Good evening! Im here to keep blowing up your feed with these awesome principles!

🌿First Do No Harm- see previous post!
🌿The Healing Power of Nature- see previous post!
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause- see previous post!
🌿Doctor as Teacher- See previous post!
🌿Treat the Whole Person
🌿Prevention

Tolle Totum- latin for Treat the Whole Person

Instead of looking at one system or anatomical location at a time, Naturopaths take into consideration all of your symptoms and their locations, and use that to uncover the root cause of the dis-ease, and most of the time it starts in the gut!

It is important to have specialists look into issues that are chronic and for more expertise, or for surgery, of course.

For example, a woman came to me with anxiety. While there are many effective drugs for anxiety, they were not for her and she did not like the side effects. It was not until we dug deeper and figured out the food she was eating was causing contributing her anxiety ( ), and once she eliminated gluten and healed her gut effectively her anxiety became manageable with mindfullness and herbs. This is the gut-brain connection at work!

Hello eager followers! I know you have been on the edge of your seat waiting to read about the 4th Principle of Naturopathic Medicine- DOCTOR AS TEACHER! Look at my previous posts to learn more about the first 3 principles…. I know you can’t resist!

🌿First Do No Harm- see previous post!
🌿The Healing Power of Nature- see previous post!
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause- see previous post!
🌿Doctor as Teacher
🌿Treat the Whole Person
🌿Prevention

DOCERE- Latin for “Doctor as Teacher”

Ya know the old proverb “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime,” well, that is what Naturopaths strive to do, is give our patients health for their lifetimes by TEACHING our patients what it means to be truly healthy.

I love drawing diagrams for my patients. Art is in my blood after all . I recently acquired a white board to help educate people on what is going on in their bodies and what to do about it.

So here is a diagram outlining the secret to true health and longevity (and avoiding contracting illnesses, like ahem, viral ones)- I call it “Building a Home of Health” 🏠(working title).

In summary, to be healthy you start with a solid foundation of healthy diet🍏 and hydration💧, and “build” each layer of healing on top of that.

🏋️‍♂️Exercise will have greater benefit when you’re eating healthy.

🧠Mental health care is easier with exercise and diet in your routine.

Each layer benefits from the previous layers solid foundation before it, and
LAST is supplements, which work their best when you have the other previous levels built on a solid foundation.

So in a nutshell, this is all you have to do!!! Easy, right!??

If you don’t feel this is easy, and you need guidance along the way, I encourage you to find your closest Naturopathic Doctor and go! Learn more about diet and supplements than you find on a google search, by someone trained for 4 years with a Doctoral degree!

Greetings! Here we are again to learn about the 3rd of 6 guiding Principles of Naturopathic Healing which are:

🌿First Do No Harm- see previous post!
🌿The Healing Power of Nature- see previous post!
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause
🌿Doctor as Teacher
🌿Treat the Whole Person
🌿Prevention

Naturopathic Principle #3:

🌿Identify and Treat the Cause

ALLERGIES! The cause can be quite relative to the medical onlooker. The conventional treatment is Over-The-Counter anti-histamines or steroids which can be very helpful temporarily but often the effects wear off and higher doses are needed, while Naturopathic doctors look deeply at possible ROOT causes such as over abundance of toxins (lead, mercury), leaky gut or food intolerances.

Allergies can seemingly appear out of nowhere or be a lifelong struggle, but it is a sign that the immune system is out of balance.

So the question is, why is the immune system overactive, really? Is it Claritin deficiency or do ya need to cleanse and re-balance?

✨Naturopaths help thousands with the latter.

Pictured here is beautiful 🐝 Astragalus, a very well studied herb for used successfully for asthma, allergies, cancer treatment and autoimmune disease.





















@ Stowe Natural Family Wellness

Here we are on on our journey of understanding Naturopathic Medicine via the 6 Principles of Naturopathic Healing which are:

🌿First Do No Harm- see previous post!
🌿The Healing Power of Nature
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause
🌿Doctor as Teacher
🌿Treat the Whole Person
🌿Prevention

Naturopathic Principle #2:
🌿The Healing Power of Nature

What does this mean?

When given the right ingredients and tools, your body knows how to heal, and will. Your body is not a machine, it is a complex ecosystem constantly working to maintain homeostasis, or balance of interconnected systems. Naturopathic Doctors use food, herbs, nutritional supplements and lifestyle modification first to improve your health and shift from un-health and dis-ease to health and ease.

How does one practice this?

Eat good quality healthy foods. Stay hydrated. Acknowledge and manage stress. Exercise. Go outside. Get good rest. Go to a naturopath to find out what is the best supplement/medication protocol for you. Give your body time to heal. Find joy in life!

Pictured here shining brilliantly is 🌼Elecampane (Inula helenium) growing at SNFW~ a fantastic herb for irritating bronchial coughs, bronchitis and emphysema used for thousands of years in Chinese herbal medicine and western herbalism. This herb is powerful enough to help one’s body balance during acute respiratory illness, and gentle enough for children. 🌞

I would like to help give you an idea of what Naturopathic medicine is (its confusing I know), so the next 6 posts will be dedicated to The 6 Principles of Naturopathic Healing which is the foundation of the practice of Naturopathic Medicine:

🌿First Do No Harm
🌿The Healing Power of Nature
🌿Identify and Treat the Cause
🌿Doctor as Teacher
🌿Treat the Whole Person
🌿Prevention

Naturopathic Principle #1:
🌿First Do No Harm
Physicians of all types swear this oath. First and foremost, don’t hurt the patient more! A physician is charged with seeking interventions that will allow the patient will survive and thrive. You may think this is obvious, but USNews published an article in 2016 that estimated more than 128,000 people die each year from taking medications as prescribed! “By far the greatest number of [prescription drug-related] hospitalizations and deaths occur from drugs that are prescribed properly by physicians and taken as directed,” says Donald Light, a medical and economic sociologist.

Doctors to their best to prescribe things that will be safe, but Naturopathic Doctors take it one step further, and use 🌿The Healing Power of Nature….