How to Connect People with Dr Heli McPhie, ND on The Healers Café with Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND

In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND, chats with Dr Heli McPhie, ND who truly believes in the power and beauty of collaborative medicine, connection and community.

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Highlights from today's episode include:

Dr Heli McPhie (13:35):
I think that if we allowed naturopathic doctors and if it became sort of the norm that we did more work with the chronic issues and work collaboratively with MDs, our medical costs would go down so drastically. I see it time and time again. I know you have, So look at things like blood pressure, cardiovascular illnesses, mood disorders, which is what my passion is. I'm hoping we talk about that. Exzema allergies, all of these sort of chronic digestive issues, IBS. I mean, IBS to me is not a diagnosis by the way, it's a description. Your bowels are exactly fatigue syndrome. That is not a diagnosis. It's a description, fibromyalgia, sore muscles, not a diagnosis. It's a description what's underlying all of these. I'm fascinated by that as a biologist, I think vectors are gonna come into our playing field and in a much bigger way in our medicines future kind of like inflammation is the trendy thing now. we're finally starting to see that maybe egg yolks, weren't the demise of our cholesterol. And maybe we should be focusing a little bit more on inflammation instead.

Dr Heli McPhie (1800):
It doesn't have to be complicated, but we do need to improve the health of our patients because there has been this idea if I get high blood pressure, I'm going to take blood pressure pills. Well, if I get high cholesterol, I'm going to take cholesterol pills. Well, if I take, if I get allergies, I'll take allergy pills. If I get pain, I'll take pain pills. If I have a low mood, I'll take mood pills.

Dr Manon (39:46):
And it's our schooling system. It's our family structure. It's patriotical structure. We're raised not to ask questions and to be obedient. And I have nothing against, you know, obeying, but obey and ask questions, you know, with intelligence. Yeah. And it's like, let's have this dialogue

About Dr Heli McPhie, ND

Dr. McPhie's passion for medicine and healing began at a very young age growing up in Zambia and South Africa. Building upon her love of the natural world and science, she completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at McGill University, and then went on to complete a 4 year study of natural medicine at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, completed 2 years of clinical practice in Toronto, and then returned to the West Coast to continue her career. She has operated a successful family practice for over 20 years seeing patients of all ages from all over the lower mainland, across Canada and abroad.

Dr McPhie lectures frequently at universities, colleges and to the public. She has a passion for creating connections and community. Dr. McPhie believes loneliness and isolation are an under considered social determinant if health. Our health suffers greatly if we are lonely and lack connection. As a result, Dr. McPhie does workshops with teachers and community groups where play, active learning, creativity and connections are used to find solutions and reduce loneliness in vulnerable populations. She believes that connecting people to themselves and each other is powerful medicine for keeping us healthy and happy.

She was the recipient of the David Schleich President's award of Excellence and the Dr. Patricia Wales award for her significant contribution to the development of the naturopathic profession in Canada. She was also recognised by UBC as Mentor of the Year for her many years as a mentor in the nutritional sciences program.

Dr. Mcphie is very passionate about treating a wide variety of conditions for the whole family with naturopathic medicine. She has a general naturopathic practice and therefore treats a wide variety of conditions and concerns. Dr Mcphie is an avid supporter of children's health and prevention.

About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker with a TEDx talk in September 2020, and the author of the Amazon best-selling book "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask." Watch for her next book, due out in 2020.

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