Naturopathic medicine is a holistic approach to healthcare that emphasizes the body's inherent ability to heal itself. Practitioners, known as naturopathic doctors (NDs), aim to address the root causes of illness by promoting natural physiologic functions. This involves employing a range of therapies, including dietary and lifestyle modifications, herbal medicine, and physical therapies. Naturopathic services offered by NDs often focus on balancing the nervous system to enhance overall well-being. By identifying and addressing imbalances, NDs help individuals achieve optimal health. Additionally, naturopathic doctors provide guidance on optimizing sleep patterns, recognizing the critical role sleep plays in maintaining good health. Through a combination of personalized treatments, naturopathic medicine aims to support the body's innate healing mechanisms, fostering improved health and vitality.
Here's a list of services commonly offered by naturopathic doctors:
Nutritional Counseling: Dr. Kranics will assess your body's specific nutrient needs with questionnaires or tests such as continuous glucose monitoring to help you achieve a level of nutrition that supports your overall health.
Herbal Medicine: Dr. Kranics uses various herbs to support health.
Homeopathy: A holistic system using highly diluted substances to stimulate the body's natural healing responses. Dr Kranics will use this naturopathic modality in certain cases.
Lifestyle Coaching: Dr. Kranics aims to encourage healthy lifestyle factors at every visit and will motivate and support you as you build new healthy habits.
Mind-Body Medicine: Dr. Kranics uses vagus nerve stimulation devices to help restore balance to a stressed out nervous system.
Environmental Medicine: Dr. Kranics supports professionals who have work related chemical exposures (ex firefighters) to rebalance their health.
Supplement Recommendations: Dr. Kranics uses supplements very often to improve health. There are many applications to supplements. Even if you have a regiment, she can make sure you are taking the most effective doses and forms of common vitamins and minerals and let you know which supplements may be less useful for you.
Hormone Balancing: Dr. Kranics practice focuses strongly on hormonal wellness which includes health while on birth control, managing hormones after stopping birth control, fertility, pregnancy, post partum, perimenopause, menopause and men's health. She uses tests to gain more insight into the body's current state and to guide treatment choices.
Digestive Health: Dr. Kranics helps individual's with food related digestive upset, gut inflammation, liver health, optimizing digestion, and so on. She uses testing to determine gut health and areas that need to be addressed.
Weight Management: Dr. Kranics aims to improve an individual's metabolism through diet, exercise and supplementation. She also looks over your routine blood work to check on your cholesterol, glucose and liver health to determine if there are any underlying causes for difficulty losing weight.
Chronic Disease Support: Dr. Kranics works with individuals who have a team of medical professionals to manage and improve chronic diseases like diabetes to improve how they feel and function on a daily basis.
Sleep medicine: Dr. Kranics offers at-home sleep studies to determine the current level of deep sleep and the health of the nervous system. Then she works with individuals to try to restore circadian rhythm and improve daily energy levels.
Although Dr. Kranics works most often with hormone health her practice is open to discuss a wide variety of conditions.
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