Virtual Health Consulting from the Comfort of Your Home with Naturopathic Medicine

Common Conditions Treated

All chronic and most acute conditions may benefit from naturopathic care.

Acne
ADHD, Autism (DAN Certified)
Allergies, Environmental Illness
Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
Arthritis
Asthma
Autoimmune Disease
Cancer Support Care and Risk Reduction
Cardiovascular Disease
Chronic Fatigue
Chronic Sinusitis
Cold and Flu
Detoxification
Depression and Anxiety
Diabetes
Digestive Disorders: (IBS, GERD, Reflux, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, UC, Crohn’s)
Eczema, Psoriasis
Elevated Cholesterol
Fatigue
Female Disorders (PMS, Menopause, PCOS)

Fibromyalgia
Healthy Aging
Healthy Weight and Metabolism
Heart Health, Hypertension
High Cholesterol
Insomnia
Interstitial Cystitis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Mental Wellness
Metabolic Syndrome, Pre-Diabetes, Insulin
Migraines and Headaches
Menopause
Mood Disorders
Osteoporosis
Preconception Health
Restless Legs Syndrome
Sleep Problems
Thyroid and Adrenal Disorders
Women’s Health (Fertility, Enhancing Health in Pregnancy, Fibrocystic Breast Disease, Endometriosis, Uterine Fibroids)

Our Specializations

Dr. Laura specializes in treating lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. Conventional testing often isn’t able to detect underlying infections but Dr. Laura uses Applied Kinesiology to check for these micro organisms and is able to heal many people using this technique. — Dr. Laura’s other special interests are in maternal and child health.

Do you have questions about our services?

Email: DrLauraOffice@gmail.com

Applied Kinesiology

Dr. Laura uses Applied Kinesiology (AK) during your naturopathic visit to develop a treatment plan that is specific to you and your body’s needs. AK is the use of manual muscle testing to evaluate body function through the dynamics of the musculoskeletal system. Treatments involve specific meridian and acupuncture skills, clinical nutrition, dietary management, counseling skills, evaluating environmental irritants, and cranial techniques.

Kinesiology provides a unique way of communicating directly with the body, allowing the body itself to reveal the precise location and nature of its imbalances and dictate its preference for treatment. AK is a non-invasive technique that can help to identify nutritional deficiencies or excesses, as well as imbalances in the body. Dr. Laura specializes in using AK to test for bacteria, viruses, yeast, and parasites that may be affecting your body, food sensitivities, and heavy metal toxicity. AK is cost-effective, and there is no additional charge for the testing.

Kinesiology spans the full spectrum of health and healing, and it is practiced worldwide by doctors, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, naturopaths, physiotherapists, nutritionists, counselors, healers, and in almost every branch of alternative and complementary medicine.

Performing Applied Kinesiology to patient

Biotherapeutic Drainage

Biotherapeutic Drainage is the therapeutic use of homeopathics, botanicals, or trace minerals to facilitate the elimination of toxins from the body. The term is often shortened to “drainage” for simplicity, or to imply what is needed from a therapeutic perspective: directed detoxification to the whole system or to specific organs or tissues. Dr. Laura combines single homeopathic remedies and Unda numbers as a form of biotherapeutic drainage. UNDA numbers were created over 50 years ago in France. They are a homeopathic preparation of plant and mineral substances. The plant part of the UNDA number has an affinity for certain organ systems in the body, such as digestive, cardiovascular, or respiratory. The minerals restore proper biochemical function to the cell. They are extremely potent medicines yet gentle and safe at the same time. These remedies encourage the body to detoxify by enabling the cells to work more efficiently and eliminate waste effectively. When the body is able to rid itself of toxins that inherently build up in the cells, the body is better able to heal itself.

Clinical Nutrition

An important part of clinical nutrition is evaluating your diet, taking into consideration your food sensitivities and your digestive health. Food has a direct impact on your health, like medicines and drugs; foods affect the way your body functions: some foods help you heal, while others damage your body and contribute to chronic illness. The use of supplements, enzymes, vitamins, and minerals can be of great benefit in addressing your health concerns. Diet will be assessed through both an Asian Medicine perspective and a biochemical viewpoint. Dr. Laura has a special interest in the GAPS diet.

Essential Oils

Essential oils are natural oils typically obtained through distillation, which hold the fragrance from their plant of origin. They have been used for thousands of years for healing purposes, as well as for their spiritually and emotionally uplifting properties. The purest essential oils are just as useful as the botanicals from which they were extracted. Essential oils can be diffused, inhaled, applied topically, incorporated into massage, or taken internally. Dr. Laura commonly uses raindrop therapy, which is the application of a sequence of essential oils that have been clinically tested to have antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. These oils are dropped gently on the spine and lightly massaged in, and a hot compress is applied.

Far Infrared Sauna

Infrared saunas help with:

Detoxification Infrared saunas can help increase blood circulation and stimulate the sweat glands, releasing built-up toxins in the body. Daily sauna sweating can help detoxify the body as it releases heavy metals (lead, mercury, nickel, and cadmium) as well as alcohol, nicotine, sulfuric acid, and other organic and inorganic compounds. It has been known for decades that sweating is a wonderful way to get rid of stored chemicals. Infrared saunas are also used at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Beth Israel Hospital in New York, and the Acadia Cancer Institute in Germany.

Stress and fatigue reduction Just a few minutes in the gentle warmth of an infrared sauna will help one feel relaxed, rejuvenated, and renewed. Many infrared sauna customers comment on how much they look forward to their sauna session. An infrared sauna sanctuary provides a great time to relax. It’s like having a day spa in the home that’s open all the time. Infrared saunas have been shown to affect the autonomic nervous system by putting the user in the parasympathetic (rest and digest) state, allowing the body to heal and restore itself.

Muscle aches, arthritis, and joint pain Too much of anything can take its toll, including exercise. Infrared saunas can help relieve inflammation, stiffness, and soreness by increasing blood circulation and allowing the deep, penetrating infrared heat to relax muscles and carry off metabolic waste products, while delivering oxygen-rich blood to the muscles for a faster recovery. Infrared helps warm the muscles for greater flexibility and range of motion, while relieving muscle tension and pain. Studies have also shown that time spent in an infrared sauna can bring relief from different forms of arthritis. Radiant heat has been effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, joint stiffness, and many other musculoskeletal ailments. Much of the normal stiffness, aches, and pains that come with aging can be lessened with regular sauna usage.

Weight loss and increased metabolism An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association has stated that regular use of an infrared sauna imparts a similar boost to the cardiovascular system as running. While relaxing in the gentle infrared heat, the body is producing sweat, pumping blood, and burning calories. This is called a “passive aerobic workout,” because although the body is receiving all these benefits, it is not being stressed in the same way as a normal workout. The body is more relaxed and is in parasympathetic mode during that time. As the body increases sweat production to cool itself, the heart works harder to pump blood while boosting circulation. This increase in metabolism is also burning more calories. A 30-minute infrared sauna session can burn somewhere between 300–800 calories.

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM)

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) is a system of treatment that uses micro amperage current and the resonance effects of frequencies on tissues and conditions to create beneficial changes in symptoms and health.

Effects of Microcurrent

FSM often produces immediate changes in tissue, making it an indispensable tool in treating pain and many other health concerns. FSM is sub-sensory (i.e., not felt) and has profound healing effects. Scientific studies have shown that it reduces inflammation by 62%, increases ATP (energy production) by 500%, and protein synthesis by 70%.

Conditions Treated

Frequency Specific Microcurrent offers numerous frequency combinations that are beneficial for a wide range of clinical conditions. FSM is particularly helpful for nerve pain, muscle pain, inflammation, scar tissue, concussions, stress, chronic illness, and functional conditions.

How is FSM treatment done?

FSM is applied to the body using either conductive pads or wet towels. In the clinic, multiple machines are used simultaneously to address the numerous concerns that most clients have.

Treatments are most effective when you are hydrated. Drink a minimum of two glasses of water before your appointment and another two glasses of water immediately following your treatment.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a powerful method of treatment developed more than 200 years ago. Many conditions that do not respond to conventional medicine will respond well to homeopathic medicine. Homeopathic remedies are prescribed based on the understanding that like cures like; they are selected based on the unique way that you experience illness. Highly diluted substances such as plants and minerals are used to cure illness by stimulating the healing ability of your body.

Herbal Medicine

Herbal Medicine is the application of the therapeutic properties of plants (flowers, roots, and leaves) in the form of liquid tinctures, herbal teas, capsules, salves, creams, and baths. Naturopathic Doctors are trained in the appropriate use of medicinal plants as well as drug-herb interactions. Modern research has demonstrated that medicinal plants are effective for addressing a myriad of chronic and acute disorders. At our office, we use only the highest quality organic plant products, sourcing our plants from all over the world. We carry professional lines of supplements, tested for the highest standards of purity and effectiveness.

IonCleanse Footbath

The IonCleanse® helps the body detox through the healing power of ions. Ions, because of their powerful charge, cleanse the body more effectively than any other method of detox. The process is safe, relaxing, and non-invasive, with no harmful side effects. The IonCleanse® Footbath purifies the body through the electrolysis of the water. Relax with your feet in water for about 30 minutes. Healthy individuals can expect to feel lighter and experience a greater sense of well-being from each IonCleanse® session.

The unique properties of negative ions in the footbath machine cause water to be ionized and split into H+ and OH- ions (and sometimes into H3O+ and H2O2 ions), which then enter the body through the 4,000 large pores of the feet while the foot detox machine is in operation. The ions produced by the ion foot detox machine are transported throughout the body by the circulatory and lymphatic systems, neutralizing oppositely charged toxins in the cells that are normally slow to exit the body. The body’s organs become energized and stimulated to function optimally, allowing the body to better rid itself of these toxins through its normal processes of urination, defecation, and perspiration. The purpose of the bath is to help detox your body and balance your body’s pH so that diseases cannot thrive. Benefits of the IonCleanse Footbath Include:

Removes Toxins from the body
Boosts Immune System
Reduces Inflammation
Increases Energy and Focus
Inactive viruses, bacteria, yeast, fungus
Relieve pain and tension
Purify the blood and lymph
Increase peripheral circulation
Stimulate and balance the immune system
Enhance nutrient absorption
Reduce inflammation and unwanted fluid retention
Help clear up skin

Assist in weight loss
Slow down aging and improve body flexibility
Quicken recovery time from disease or injury
Increase oxygen in the body
Rejuvenate and energize your whole body
Improve sleep
Incontinence/Constipation
Headaches
Improve Concentration
ADD/ADHD
Depression
Balances pH

The IonCleanse Footbath can be a stand-alone treatment, although Dr. Laura recommends it in combination with lifestyle change and naturopathic care to enhance healing. IonCleanse® Footbaths can also be purchased for home use through A Major Difference. Using an ionic foot bath 3-4 times per week for chronic health concerns can greatly decrease healing time and aid in healing. If you would like to purchase a footbath through A Major Difference please give them Dr. Laura Sleggs’ ND, name as a referral source. A Major Difference 7318 S. Revere Pkwy Ste B7 Centennial, CO info@amajordifference.com 303-755-0112

Lifestyle Counseling

To achieve the best results from your naturopathic treatment, it is important to incorporate and practice the principles of healthy living. Counseling includes stress management and incorporating balance in daily life between work, diet, sleep, exercise, and activities of daily living. Focusing on mental attitude and emotional state is an important element in the healing process.

Mistletoe Therapy

Mistletoe Therapy can be used to boost or wake up the immune system. It is used in chronic illness and in malignant and non-malignant tumors for stimulation of bone marrow activity along with conventional treatments to offset the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation, such as nausea, vomiting, and lack of appetite. It can also be used to diminish tumor-related pain and to reduce the risk of tumor recurrence. Mistletoe can be injected under the skin on the abdomen. It typically causes some harmless localized inflammation, including swelling, redness, tenderness, and itching, up to the size of a silver dollar. Other side-effects can include a temporary rise in body temperature and fatigue. It is tolerated very well.

NanoHerb Lights

Acupuncture Without Needles

Nano Herbs Light (NHL) contains Nano Herbs, Nano Vita Water, and Nano Light Systems. The combination of Nano Herbs and Nano Vita Water is filled in a glass vial and then inserted into the Nano Light. The dual system delivers the herbal frequency through the vial to the acupuncture point(s), achieving precise and direct results. The herbs, water, and light play a significant role in the effectiveness of certain enzyme groups and regulate the biological activities in our body. NHL is an enhancement of Cell Growth 1. It can rebalance the cell’s DNA structure and the Acupuncture Meridian. NHL is a revolutionary acupuncture technology that allows patients to achieve the results of acupuncture without the use of needles.

NHL uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicines (Nano Herb and Nano Vita Water) and state-of-the-art technology (Nano Light System – a dual light system that includes Blue and White lights) to help improve the health and well-being of patients. The Chinese Medicine belief is that an individual’s wellness is measured by whether organs meridian energy and DNA cell structure is in balance. Certain toxins including radiation from electronics such as cell phones, computers, and free radicals can damage and cause imbalances of cellular DNA structures, which are the root of many poor health conditions, such as heart attacks, strokes, and cancers. Nano Herbs and Nano Vita Water use nanotechnology to help heal damaged cells at the atomic/molecular level by restoring the DNA double-helix structure to a health, well-balanced state. When administering the NHL onto the acupuncture points and organs, rebalancing and enhancement of cell of acupuncture points and organs are performed via herbal energies and light frequencies.

NHL can be used for over 700 physical conditions. The use of NHL is less invasive than traditional acupuncture since it does not involve the use of needles. Moreover, the use of herbal energies and light frequency may improve and heal physical conditions that are not treatable by traditional acupuncture. Finally, NHL is safe and can be operated by someone not trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Among others, the six main functions of NHL include: (1) cosmetic improvement, (2) scalp enhancement, (3) pain management, (4) Meridian-Organ rebalance, (5) rebalance of immune systems, and (6) energy support for cancer patients.

Nano Herbs Light (NHL) can be used for over 700 physical conditions. They include but are not limited to pain management, organ/meridian imbalance, fatigue, depression, hair and skin, immune system, and even tumors.

Scalp Therapy can be performed using the Nano Herbs Light (NHL) and Hair Plus. The system can penetrate into the scalp tissues to create hair growth.

Physical Medicine

Physical Medicine includes massage, hydrotherapy, sauna, exercise, and peat therapy. There are two ways physical medicine works. First, it restores structural soundness to the skeletal system, joints, and soft tissue. In addition, it builds immunity and supports healing and detoxification. Hydrotherapy is one of the oldest forms of medical treatment. It involves the use of water applications at varying temperatures to stimulate the body’s inherent healing abilities. It is a noninvasive, economical, and effective therapeutic approach that acts to stimulate the immune system, facilitate detoxification, and promote lymph drainage and circulation. Exercise therapy involves basic stretching and strengthening of muscles to improve and maintain health.

Nurse performing physical treatment to elderly man

Sound Therapy

During your visit, Dr. Laura will use sound therapy. Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two tuning forks will instantaneously improve your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, organs, and muscles into harmonic balance. This reduces stress, increases blood flow, enhances immune response, and fully integrates body & mind. The basic principle of healing with sound is the concept of resonance (the vibratory frequency of an object.) Each object in the world is in a state of vibration. Every organ, cell, bone, tissue, and liquid of the body has a healthy vibratory frequency. If we are not resonating with some part of ourselves or of our surroundings, we become dissonant and therefore unhealthy. Our naturally healthy frequency becomes a frequency that vibrates without harmony, creating illness. Through the use of sound, we can project the correct resonant frequency toward the unhealthy part of ourselves and return it to its normal frequency, resulting in healing.

Testing

We can run some alternative tests through our Ohio office.

Applied Kinesiology

During your visit, Dr. Laura will talk with you about your health concerns and review your intake form. She combines a wide variety of natural healing modalities in her care plan including herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, lifestyle changes, hydrotherapy, light therapy, sound therapy, and emotion code. At each appointment, she will use applied kinesiology and body talk to design a treatment plan that will work best for you. This will aid her in assessing organ systems (such as the large intestine, colon, kidney, adrenal, thyroid). She will test for food sensitivities, metal toxicity, viruses, bacteria, parasites, candida, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and supplements.

Dr. Laura has found that this method of testing has been an extremely beneficial part of her success in healing people.

It is important that she focuses on the testing to get the best results. She may be quiet some of the time to use intuition but she will share her findings with you during or at the end of the visit. Please be cognizant of the allotted appointment time so that she can complete each assessment for you. She will ask you to lie on your back on the table and raise your left arm, which she will use for muscle testing. For children under 3, a parent will lie on the table and use their arm with the child sitting on the table.

What is Applied Kinesiology (aka Muscle Testing)?

The body has within it and surrounding it an electrical network or grid, which is pure energy. Because energy runs through the muscles in your body, if anything impacts your electrical system that does not maintain or enhance your body’s balance, your muscles will virtually “short circuit” or weaken (don’t worry, only temporarily). Things that might have an impact on your electrical system are thoughts, emotions, foods, and other substances. During the testing, you will feel your arm move, when it weakens this will give us a yes or no answer to determine the right treatment plan for you. It often feels like Dr. Laura is pushing harder on your arm to get it to move but she is actually using the same pressure during the whole treatment.

Using your muscles, we can find what events or emotions “weaken” or “strengthen” your body. This process is called applied kinesiology but often is referred to as “muscle testing.”

If your muscles move that is a “yes” response. It’s your body’s signal that it agrees with something. If the muscles stay still that is a “no” answer. This process is fascinating and the clues we get can be invaluable to your healing.

How Does Proxy Muscle Testing Work For Phone Appointments?

Proxy testing is muscle testing that is done on myself, for you. Proxy testing works similarly to how cell phones work. Our bodies have a built-in capability to connect to or “call” someone else. When we do this, we create an energetic connection with them. Once you’re connected, you can get answers about what is going on with this other person’s body because you’re picking up their energetic flow or signal. Proxy work can also be used to correct energetic imbalances on another too. Again, since you are connected to their energy field (and energy knows no space and time – just like when you’re thinking of someone and they call you!), it can be done regardless of distance.

I simply ask questions and get answers through testing myself that reflect what’s going on in your energy system. Even though some people are skeptical, there is much knowledge of how this works in relationship to quantum physics and we don’t have to understand or even believe it for it to be extremely accurate.

Glyphosate

Glyphosate is the world’s most widely produced herbicide and is the primary toxic chemical in Roundup™, as well as in many other herbicides. In addition, it is a broad-spectrum herbicide that is used in more than 700 different products from agriculture and forestry to home use. Glyphosate was introduced in the 1970s to kill weeds by targeting the enzymes that produce the amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine. The enzymes of many bacteria are also susceptible to inhibition by this chemical, thus altering the flora of many animals. Usage of glyphosate has since amplified, after the introduction of genetically modified (GMO) glyphosate-resistant crops that can grow well in the presence of this chemical in soil. In addition, toxicity of the surfactant commonly mixed with glyphosate, polyoxyethyleneamine (POEA), is greater than the toxicity of glyphosate alone. In 2014, Enlist Duo™, a herbicide product which contains a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) salt and glyphosate, was approved for use in Canada and the U.S. for use on genetically modified soybeans and genetically modified maize, both of which were modified to be resistant to both 2,4-D and glyphosate. 2,4-D has many toxic effects of its own and can be measured in the GPL-TOX test.

This is a urine test for glyphosate.

Organic Acid Testing (OAT) Nutritional & Metabolic Profile

The Organic Acids Test (OAT) offers a comprehensive metabolic snapshot of a patient’s overall health with 76 markers. It provides an accurate evaluation of intestinal yeast and bacteria. Abnormally high levels of these microorganisms can cause or worsen behavior disorders, hyperactivity, movement disorders, fatigue, and immune function. Many people with chronic illnesses and neurological disorders often excrete several abnormal organic acids in their urine. The cause of these high levels could include oral antibiotic use, high sugar diets, immune deficiencies, acquired infections, as well as genetic factors.

Our Organic Acids Test also includes markers for vitamin and mineral levels, oxidative stress, neurotransmitter levels, and is the only OAT to include markers for oxalates, which are highly correlated with many chronic illnesses.

Organic acids are chemical compounds excreted in the urine of mammals that are products of metabolism. A number of organic acids directly or indirectly indicate deficiencies of critical vitamins such as vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, biotin, and others. One of the most important uses of the organic acids test is an indicator of dysbiosis, an abnormal overgrowth of yeast and bacteria in the intestinal tract. Some of these bacterial byproducts from the intestine enter the bloodstream and may alter the metabolism of neurotransmitters such as dopamine.

The OAT test can be run through our Ohio office.

For more information, visit:

https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/organic-acids-test/