Visit with a naturopath
 

Probably the less said about my visit this week with the naturopath, the better. But in fairness to mainstream medicine I will post my impression. Perhaps I just expect too much from people with credentials. I am somewhat disheartened to find yet another dead end in terms of seeing people who are professionally qualified to treat us. I tried (just as I have with each oncologist I've seen) to entertain the benefit of the doubt... but... to summarize:

The positive points:

1.The senior naturopath is endorsed by the major cancer center where I have been treated.

2.He had a book published in 1999 wherein he promotes complementary treatment.

3.Even in a town as tiny as the one where I was visiting in the Lower 48 prior to going to the major cancer center, I found a copy of his book in the local library -- and no others on the topic.

4.One of the HER2support members recently mentioned she does consultations from Texas with the senior naturopath.

5.At the appointment I eventually was given the name and number of a person at the University nearby who is either a dietitian or trained in nutrition.

The negative points:

1.The naturopath's website is not kept current, which to me is not professional in this day and age.

2.His very nice appointments clerk e-mailed me the preliminary forms to fill out, including a detailed history and information about my eating habits, etc. and the associate naturopath who saw me used a lot of my appointment time to repeat most of those questions, clearly indicating he never bothered to read the form prior to seeing me, even though I had called the day before to verify that they received it and had it in the file ready for him to see. I was the first patient of the day.

3. I sent them a letter ahead of time specifically telling them I did not want a full evaluation and only wished to discuss the metabolism of sugars and fats and in particular the balancing of types of fats. I was told that would be fine. The associate naturopath kept trying to do a full evaluation and never did come close to adequately addressing my question, even though at one point I said straight out that I did not want to leave knowing that my primary question had not been dealt with.

Any advice, folks?

AlaskaAngel

Are you looking for a metabolic nutritionist?

I googled and several sites showed up, one is a woman in Texas.
Lisa Robinson?
Sorry I don't have the link.

I've started looking for a metabolic cardiologist, between NYC and Phila.
not easy to find. I follow the triad of CoQ10, LCarnitine and D-Ribose,
as in the Sinatra Solution. My CAM family doc also recommended
these.

Susan M(PA)

Metabolism and bc
 

Thanks, Susan, for the encouragement. I think I do need to widen and then narrow the scope of my search again to get where I am trying to go, and am very glad to have your suggestion. I've just started to look at the abstracts under Joe's post as well, and find #555 interesting (exercise and insulin levels in breast cancer survivors....) What great minds we have in this group!

AlaskaAngel