News at Inspired Health

Prescribing Rights are here!

2010-09-03T14:32:00.000-07:00

We have now been officially been told that BC naturopathic physicians who passed the Pharmacy Updating course and qualified for certification will be able to prescribe medications on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010.

This is a historic occasion for the profession in BC and for me personally. As many of my patients and friends already know, I have had these same rights under my Washington State ND license when I practiced in Seattle, but couldn't use them to provide my patients here with many of the medicines (including high-dose vitamins) they needed, which was frustrating. Now I can offer these therapies as part of our overall care at Westshore Wellness.

Prescribing is an important step in the process of helping ND's provide the full range of primary care services to patients. We are hoping to have clarification of our rights for appropriate laboratory and diagnostic testing soon, which we are being told is part of ongoing discussions between our College and the BC Ministry of Health. I will post more information as we receive it.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to call my office at (250) 478-4734.

~Dr. Marianne

Prescribing rights coming in September!

2010-08-12T13:57:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd pass along that I have received word that I am now eligible to apply for prescriptive authority in BC.

Relieved that this 5 month process will soon be at an end and I will be able to help patients who need prescription medicines starting very soon.

Will keep everyone posted as to when we are up and running and will be able to offer this additional service.

~Dr. MT

Dr. Marianne is now Board Certified in Chelation Therapy

2010-08-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

Just letting everyone know that I have received my official certification in chelation therapy through the International Society of Chelation Technicians.

Chelation therapies are very helpful for people who are dealing with health problems from chronically high levels of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic.

My primary focus right now is on using oral chelators such as DMSA and DMPS, which I think are safer and less invasive therapies than IV chelation, particularly for children under 18.

I'm excited to be able to offer this therapy to my patients in BC.

For any more questions about chelation and whether it might be helpful for you or your child, please call me at my office at (250) 478-4734.

~Dr. MT

Q & A for parents at Hemp & Company in Vic West

2010-05-31T14:20:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be at the new Hemp & Company Vic West this coming Saturday for a Q&A for parents on keeping your kids chemical free.

Address: 422 Craigflower Road (Right across from Banfield Park).
Time: 1:30pm-3pm.

Please come by!

~Dr. Marianne

MP3 of talk at Know Your Food Event-Victoria

2010-05-10T15:49:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

here is an MP3 of a talk I did last month on the importance of eating local, organic food for good health from a naturopathic perspective:

http://www.sunsetcollaborations.com/homegrown/9_Marianne_Trevereaux.mp3

Let me know if this works and I'll post these more often!

Also, I'm speaking again this week at the Victoria Young Entrepreneurs' Society 'Fashion Fights Cancer' fashion show and fundraiser this week.

Will post more details when I have them!

~Dr. M

Dr. Marianne is moving to Victoria

2009-12-22T12:57:00.000-08:00

On December 27th, Dr. Marianne is moving her practice to WestShore Wellness in Colwood.

For Nanaimo patients, I would like to recommend Dr. Tonia Mitchell at Arbour Wellness Centre for follow up care. Dr. Mitchell is a licensed ND and a board-certified acupuncturist who has recently relocated to Nanaimo. She also has additional certification in IV therapy, Reiki and cosmetic acupuncture. She is a caring and dedicated physician who enjoys seing children and adults alike for a variety of health concerns.

She is also offering a 35% discount on her initial consult fees to existing Inspired Health patients. We can facillitate file copies to be transfered at your written request.

The address for Dr. Mitchell at Arbour Wellness Centre is 2136 Bowen Road and her phone number is 250-729-4969. Their web address and map is available http://www.arbourcentre.com/

If you would like to continue with Dr. Marianne in Victoria please contact WestShore at (250) 478-4734 after December 23rd.

I would like to thank everyone for entrusting me with their care over the last two years here in Nanaimo and feel very grateful for my time here.

New Allergy treatment available at Inspired Health!

2009-06-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

Polleguard is a newly introduced sublingual allergy drop in Canada. It works by delivering a low dose of the allergen at frequent intervals (usually twice a day) to build up the body's tolerance over time.

Sublingual therapy for allergies has been used extensively in Europe for over 15 years and is recognized by the World Health Organization as an effective treatment for allergies.

We are pretty excited at offering this new treatment at Inspired Health. It's both safe and effective and helps treat allergies permanently. After we test in-office for the common allergens treated by PollenGuard--cats, trees, grasses, weeds, and dust mites--patients can start therapy right away and continue taking the drops at home.

Some patients will start to notice an effect within a week or two, although we recommend several months of treatment to build up lasting tolerence.

For more information on PollenGuard, check out their website: www.pollenguard.com

For further questions or to schedule a visit, please call our office at (250) 714-0721, or drop us a line at office@inspired-health.ca

~Dr. Marianne

Dr. Marianne on A-Channel Tuesday, February 24th!

2009-02-22T21:03:00.001-08:00

Dr. Marianne will be appearing on the A-Morning show at approximately 8:15am this coming Tuesday, February 24th. She will be discussing her upcoming talks at the Nanaimo Baby Fair on solid food introduction and strategies to prevent asthma, autism and ADHD in children.

The Nanaimo Baby Fair is taking place Saturday, February 28th and Sunday March 1st at Beban Park Social Centre. Tickets are $6.00 person per day or $7.00 for the weekend; children under 12 are admitted free. Coupons for $1.00 off admission will be available at Inspired Health on Wesley Street all this week.

At the Fair, look for Dr. Marianne speaking about tips for introducing solid food to babies at 12:30pm on Saturday, and on strategies for preventing asthma, autism and ADHD at 12:30 pm (same time!) on Sunday.

Karyn-grace Clarke, our lactation consultant, is also speaking twice at the Baby Fair. Her first talk on how to make breastfeeding work for you, is on Saturday at 3:00pm. On Sunday, she will be speaking on how to breastfeed and and still have a life! at 2:00pm.

Please come and say hello to both Dr. Marianne and Karyn-grace at the Inspired Health booth (booth #32--look for our green flower) at the Baby Fair, read our handout from the Environmental Working Group on safe childhood body care, and enter our draw for a gift basket (valued at over $250.00) that includes free naturopathic and breastfeeding consults, and several organic baby skin care products including shampoo and shea butter moisturizer and an organic postnatal multi vitamin from Innate Response.

For more information on the upcoming Nanaimo Baby Fair, please visit their their site at www.vancouverislandbabyfair.com/

~Dr. Marianne

Welcoming Angela Slade, BA CYC

2009-01-22T16:26:00.000-08:00

Inspired Health is also pleased to announce that Angela Slade, BA CYC of Esteem Child and Youth Services will be joining our clinic February 1st, 2009.

Angela combines her counselling experience with her passion for coaching to help families navigate the adolescent years. Her mission is to change the way families relate to one another by encouraging them to grow toward greater family connection and mutual respect, and to help teens attain a true sense of purpose and self-worth, through regular phone, e-mail, and in-person coaching sessions, interactive web-based strategies, and educational workshops. Angela specializes in body-image and self-esteem issues related to teen girls. She teaches them to ‘Be Who They Are’ not who other people want them to be through her CHICs program. She also developed ‘The Coach Approach to Parenting Teens’ to help ease stress and anxiety during this key parental role change.

The 2008 Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards recently chose Angela as a finalist for "Entrepreneur of the Year". She will receive her award Jan. 29th, 2009 at the Nanaimo Conference Centre.

For more information on Angela Slade, please visit her webiste at www.esteemedchics.com or call her directly at (250) 668-7454.

Inspired Health welcomes Jennifer Hewko, RM

2009-01-15T13:42:00.000-08:00

Inspired Health is pleased to announce that Jennifer Hewko, RM, will be joining out team in Nanaimo.

Jennifer graduated from the Seattle Midwifery School in June 2004 and has been practicing in the Nanaimo area (where she lives with her family) since then. She currently has hospital priviliges at NGRH.

Jennifer will be available for appointments at Inspired Health on Thursday afternoons between 1pm and 5:30pm.

For more information on Jennifer, please see her website at www.mymidwife.ca or call her directly at (250) 760-1080

Breast Thermography returning to Inspired Health!

2009-01-06T12:42:00.000-08:00

Inspired Health is pleased to announce that we are hosting another Breast Thermography outreach clinic on February 13th, 2009.

Thermography is a new approach to breast screening that uses digital infrared imaging, and without either radiation or squeezing. It can often provide the earliest evidence of breast disease--before mammograms can detect structural changes such as lumps or cysts. It also has a 90% sensitivity rate, which means it can accurately indicate a presence or absense of disease 90% of the time.

While thermography does not replace regular mammograms, it permits monitoring of breast health and an important way for women to be pro-active about maintaining good health and vitality.

Certified thermologists from ThermaScan Imaging Center in Michigan (www.thermascan.com) will analyze and write a report using established international standards from the Pasteur Centre in Paris. This report can then be discussed with your health professional, who can design a treatment program and repeat monitoring, if necessary.

For more information on thermography, the website for MTI is www.medthermonline.com.

The entire proceedure takes about 30 minutes and reports are available in 6-8 weeks.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please, call our office at (250) 714-0721 or (877) 714-0721

~Dr. Marianne Trevorrow

Article on environmental factors in autism

2008-11-27T15:42:00.000-08:00

I came across this article recently in the Autism Advocate, a journal put out by the Autism Society of America. It really sums up most of the current knowledge about the role of environment in autism:

http://www.autism-society.org/site/DocServer/eh_get_a_grip.pdf?docID=4821

It's written by Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Neurology at Harvard University and Pediatric Neurologist at Massechusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is also a personal hero of mine--an academic who is following where her data is leading her, and who considers health as a 'multi-systems' approach that incorporates external as well as internal influences. She has greatly influenced my thinking on autism and related conditions.

Here is her personal web page for people who would like to see more of her research:

http://www.marthaherbert.com/index.html

~Dr. Marianne

Recent interview on sexual health for teens

2008-11-17T15:10:00.001-08:00

Here's the link to an interview I did a couple of months back with Kim Switnicki of Lioness for Lovers, the renowned sex educator, coach and author, for her sexual truth series podcast:

http://lioness.audioacrobat.com/download/SexualTruth-YouthandSexuality.mp3

Although our focus was on the questions many teenagers want to know about STDs, pregnancy, birth control and the like, we did end up having a wide-ranging discussion about the merits of sex education in schools and the emotional fall-out of casual sexual relationships. Note that there's also a guest appearance of my son Ricardo, age 19 (picture me as a Mom--putting my hands over my ears and saying 'lalalalalala!'). But I will also tell you honestly, as a parent as well as a physician, as hard as it may be for you to think about sometimes, I do think it's critical to have discussions about sexuality with your kids, and get them set on the right path early. And to listen without judgement. The thing is, from what I hear over and over in my clinic, if they don't get the information from you, well, they'll certainly get if from the internet...

Cheers,

Dr. Marianne

Breast Thermography Clinic November 20th

2008-10-08T17:38:00.001-07:00

Inspired Health is hosting a Breast Thermography outreach clinic on November 20th of this year.

Thermography is a new approach to breast screening that uses digital infrared imaging--and no squeeze!

What it does is to give a picture of functional activity within the breast tissue. This can often provide the earliest evidence of breast disease--before mammograms can detect structural changes such as lumps or cysts.

Breast thermograpy has a 90% sensitivity rate, which means it can accurately indicate a presence or absense of disease 90% of the time. While thermography does not replace regular mammograms, it permits monitoring of breast health and another way for women to be pro-active about maintaining good health and vitality.

Certified thermologists from Medical Thermography International will analyze and write a report using established international standards from the Pasteur Centre in Paris. This report can then be discussed with your health professional, who can design a treatment program and repeat monitoring, if necessary.

For more information on thermography, the website for MTI is www.medthermonline.com

For information about scheduling, call our office at (250) 714-0721 or (877) 714-0721

~Dr. Marianne

Welcome to the What's New page!

2008-09-18T11:32:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the Inspired Health Blog! Check this page regularly for upcoming events, links to articles on health issues that may interest you, and another announcements. And let us know what you think!

~the Inspired Health team