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!