Hi, I’m Mike, a Naturopath discovering his own path in improving his own health.

From a young age I always imagined that plants had hidden powers to make you stronger, healthier or do the complete opposite. I was obsessed with the narrative of medieval herbalists and games that used potions that I spent many days mixing grasses and weeds together to make my own. Never would I have believed that my childhood obsession could become a career and a way of life and a way of health.

Years later, deciding what i wanted to get into career-wise, tossing up engineering or medicine or something related, I experienced the loss of health and function my father was experiencing with a pneumonia diagnosis. We were all frustrated at how many doctors visits he was attending to, but nothing was improving. And not only that, the medication regimen potentially initiated a diabetes diagnosis. I was losing faith in what medicine could do.

– granted, he was always on the pathway to diabetes, but I feel his medication, which didn’t seem to be doing anything, was the straw that broke the camels back.

After a few months my mother decided to send him to a naturopath. I was hesitant and opposed to the idea. How can old medicine cure things new medicine can’t? But my perspective was wrong. And he began improving within weeks. A man who couldn’t walk down the stairs without having a break, was beginning to get better. I get correlation doesn’t equal causation, but that’s what got me started into my natural health outlook.