Yes, I've just *officially* started a course. I'm interested in specialising in special needs children. It was something I became interested in when my DD's osteo gave her a preGABA supplement and it stopped the fits she was having that conventional medicine couldn't work out. I've been researching (and applying much of the nutritional side) ever since with amazing results - my daughter's A-typical autism diagnosis has been set to be reviewed yearly with the hope of removing it completely by the end of this year. I think epsom salts and vitamin C and D are three of the most amazing substances in nature.
Oh wow, I didn't actually expect anyone to write back! YAY! Yeddi, I'm really looking forward to studying more of the"food as medicine" side of things! So far I've gottn into the botanical side of things... Still VERY interesting! What course are you doing?
@Willow5, If you have a passion for it, it is definitely worth looking into! I really love learning about other ways to balance our health. Nature is really an amazing resource!
I'm really interested in Nutritional medicine, I just think I may not have the brains for it * insert embarrassed red face* Naturopathy interests me too. I'm fairly new to it all so I think I need to research all the options a bit more...
I'm doing the Advance Diploma of Naturopathy through AIAS. Then I just have to do one more year through uni to get a degree, which I can do once DS is older but at the moment I like the fact I can do the bulk of this course through distance education. There are no Naturopaths that specialise in children in my area, so I'll have to do my clinics with a general one unless I go to Sydney for them. I've also arranged to do some volunteer work at my DD's Osteo clinic once I have a few of the units under my belt. That way I'll get to sit in on treatments and see kids with issues that are different to my daughter and get a "feel" for them, see the ticks they present with and discuss how that shows itself in them. I've already learned so much from them already as we've had big discussions on chemicals in disposable nappies, overuse of panadol and antibiotics, vaccines, birthing interventions and how those things effect tension in the body and how that then effects hormone production etc. While it wont be my direct area, is good to know how a tight tendon around the liver can effect enzyme production.
I'm sure you'll love the food as medicine component. I truly believe a lot of issues stem from the gut - malabsorption and/or highly tampered with foods. For instance, my daughter's fits where because she didn't produce enough gamma-Aminobutyric acid which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that stops the brain from over-firing. She didn't produce enough because she couldn't strip enough of the required base amino acids from the food she ate because of malabsorption. She had malabsorption issues because she had candida overgrowth and she had candida overgrowth because I was giving her quite a lot of foods that had yeast and yeast extract in them and she is intolerant to yeast. Without looking at her from a holistic point of view who would have guessed her fitting was because she was eating too much bread!
How exciting... I'm studying the Bachelor of Health Science in Naturopathy, and I'm really hoping to end up in the field of IVF/AC support. I'm only one year through (2.5 years part time) so at this rate, I still have about 7 years to go... I think one day I am going to have to cut back at work and ramp up the studying.
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