Navigating Natural
Does this journey feel familiar?
You’ve come to the realisation allopathic (conventional) medicine is only band-aiding your symptoms and decide to go the “natural” route
You head to your local Naturopath …then Integrative Doctor…then Functional Medicine Doctor …thinking this will get to the core of your issues and each time you find yourself walking out the door with an arm full of supplements and an extensive (expensive) list of functional labs to get done.
After the third or fourth visit you begin wondering how much longer you can afford this before they actually get to the cause of your health issues.
Enter the new kid on the block - Natural Medicine Practitioners.
And they bulk bill. Sounds too good to be true right?
“Hey! What do I have to lose” you think…
But, then only to discover that Natural Medicine is no longer what you thought it meant. Instead, you discover these guys are actually just writing out scripts for medical cannabis (which to actually purchase is far from being bulk billed) another “band-aid” to everything from sleep issues, trauma to body pain with zero investigating or addressing the underlying causes.
Slowly it dawns on you…
“Wait.. did I just get hoodwinked into Green Allopathy”?
When did “Natural” become another form of a pill for my ill?
When did “Natural” become so expensive?
Welcome to the dark side of the Wellness Industry no one wants to talk about - the slow and systematic erosion of the Holistic Health.
And yes, this includes the vast majority of educational institutions that are now perpetuating it.
So, how can we become more discerning?
How can stop blindly handing our health over to, once again, another external source?
We humans love to make everything complex, including ourselves and our own health issues. But in actually fact, it’s interesting how many “rare” or “genetic” cases are now being diagnosed in the world that can actually be resolved with fundamentally simple restorative steps.
Could it be that if we are led to believe our situation is complex then we are more likely to believe there is no hope in healing ourselves by ourselves? And therefore blindly put our faith in others, for the right price of course.
But should wellness really cost $650-1000 a consultation or $650-1000 in health products or labs?
Especially when you consider that the origins of the Functional Wellness field began with a small handful of passionate people that resolved their own health issues through true natural restoration and simply wanted to give back to the world by helping others?
NTA AU/NZ has spent considerable time thinking very deeply about this as we’ve been watching the Holistic Landscape become more about money than health.
And that’s why we are launching LEARN, a go to resource for the public to educate themselves on all things health.
Whether you want to understand the underlying causes to autoimmunity or hormones, LEARN’s goal is to help you become self empowered about your health.
We offer everything from free searchable resources to On-Demand Summits to affordable e-learning pathways.
Restoration was never meant to cost the earth because ultimately the true healer resides within and all you have to do to connect with it is to LEARN.
Ready to LEARN more?
Article by Leanne Scott, NTA AU/NZ Program Director, FNTP
