Australia definately needs more raw, vegan, knowledgable, enlightened Naturopaths!

Unfortunately, I am at this stage unaware of any Naturopaths with a raw slant in Melbourne... 

There will always be health professionals who seek out answers for themselves and live what they preach, then unfortunately there are others (whether they be doctors, nurses, naturopaths, etc) who havent yet sought truthful information far and beyond what they learnt in their university course.

We can only teach what we have learnt ourselves, and where we are at in our own health relfects in our dialect with patients/clients.  Perhaps the naturopath you saw wholeheartedly believes that to be 'healthy', the human requires fish oil, eggs and chicken?

There will always be health professionals who have completely different professional and personal views to yourself,  it is your duty to seek out those whose ideals reflect the direction and goals you are heading towards.  If that means finding people of a professional health nature who are either vegan, vegetarian, raw, or just open to learning more, then the search must begin for you to find information that sits right with your instinct.

Good Luck!

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Verysugar, I think you should go ahead and do whatever it is you want to do, at the end of the day it all comes down to the person, no matter what it is you're practicising whether it be acupuncture, medicine or naturopathy its all about what you as an individual bring to the table.  And if naturopathy appeals to your sense of self development then thats the way to go I reckon, there's no such thing as failure or a waste of time when you're following your own path. 

To me personally the most vital element of being a good practitioner in any profession is building healthy supportive relationships with your clients and of course that all begins with how you relate to yourself.   

I had been going to doctors for the last few years for chronic sinus problems.  At the end of 2005/early 2006 I began to have blinding headaches combined with severe spells of vertigo and nausea and my current doctor suspected a tumour or something similar and recommended a CAT scan.  I had got to the stage where it was dangerous for me to drive and I may have had to give up my job as the vertigo came on frequently and without warning.  I decided to try a naturopath who recommended I eliminate wheat from my diet.  Not really thinking this would make any difference, because I thought wheat only caused digestive problems, I tried it anyway and, lo and behold, all my symptoms disappeared!

If I hadn't seen a naturopath I may have still been struggling with the problems as the CAT scan wouldn't have found anyting and I would have still been on my very wheat heavy diet of bread and pasta at every meal.  Now the naturopath wasn't perfect, as she was encouraging me to include meat in my diet, but I have to be grateful that she was able to put me onto the right path to good health.  In fact, it started me investigating the role of diet and health which lead me ultimately to raw food.

So, I don't feel naturopaths are a waste of time ... when you are ill you are happy to explore any avenue that might help.

It would be wonderful to have a raw medical doctor.
All the doctors that I know and I know a few of them cause I work in a hospital are all very unhealthy with their own bodies.
Patricia

I once knew a woman who worked in a hospital lab. She smoked heavily, had very unhealthy complexion, all her family was overweight (they used to eat meat and lots of sweats every day) and one of her children got anemia. Yet, she used to tell me that vegetarians lack iron, advised to test my son (I did and he was perfect) and criticized me for not wanting to give sweets to my children as a reward. Having a degree in a nutrition related area is not a gurantee of a nutritional enlightment. A naturopath on a raw food diet would be one that I would not consider a waste of time.

Gosia

These comments remind me of that Allopath cartoon... what was the link for that again? In case anyone missed it?

Brett

Thanks Lea and Neet   

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