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TRAINING
A licensed Naturopathic Doctor (N.D.) attends a four-year graduate naturopathic medical school and is educated in all of the same sciences as an M.D. In addition to a standard medical curriculum, a Naturopathic Doctor completes four years of training in clinical nutrition, homeopathic medicine, botanical medicine, and life style counseling. A Naturopathic Doctor takes rigorous professional board exams so that he or she may be licensed by a state or jurisdiction as a primary care general practice physician.
Naturopathic Doctors works to prevent disease. This reduces health care costs as well as making life much more enjoyable for the individual. Naturopathic Doctors use therapies that lack side effects. N.D.’s focus on finding the cause of the disease as opposed to just treating the symptoms. This produces true healing and life long improvement in health. N.D.’s believe in educating their patients so they can better care for themselves, and achieve greater self-reliance and wellness.