Personalized,
Evidence Based
Naturopathic Medicine

In my final interview for Naturopathic College, I was asked, “If you could work to improve one problem in our medical system, what would it be?” My answer was simple: Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) — the number of years a person can expect to live in full health.

I believe our physical and mental health are our greatest assets. They determine not only how long we live, but how much capacity we have to pursue meaningful work, relationships, and fulfillment throughout our lives.

There’s a proverb that captures this perfectly: “A healthy man wants a thousand things; a sick man only wants one.” My goal is to prevent people from ever having to fully understand that statement firsthand.

Today, Canada and North America are facing a worsening chronic disease burden—much of which is preventable.

• At least 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided through a healthy diet, regular physical activity, and avoidance of tobacco use. (PMID: 16271649)

• Modifiable risk factors account for ~37-42% of the burden across nine major chronic diseases. (PMID: 30658065)

• Almost all adults (95.2%) have at least one modifiable risk factor for chronic disease, highlighting the substantial opportunity for prevention (PMID: 30658065)

• ~26% of Canadians have Metabolic Syndrome. (PMID: 41032639)

• ~33-50% of Canadians have Fatty Liver (Hepatic Steatosis). (PMID: 39631459)

Part of the problem is that people don’t realize they’re part of these statistics until a slowly developing, mildly annoying dysfunction crosses the line into a diagnosable disease. That uneasy feeling — knowing something isn’t right, but not knowing where to start or what kind of care to seek — is what ultimately guided me toward a more comprehensive, preventative, root-cause approach to care.

Naturopathic medicine helps fill this gap in the Canadian public healthcare system by emphasizing prevention, early risk identification, and upstream intervention—before disease becomes advanced, costly, and life-limiting.

My focus is on identifying modifiable risk factors early, interpreting subtle signals, and translating them into practical, personalized action plans that people can actually sustain. Rather than waiting for disease thresholds to be crossed, we can work upstream—preserving energy, function, and quality of life, and extending not just lifespan, but healthspan.