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Welcome and thank you for visiting our website for Alternative Health Concepts, located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The heart and soul of my work is as a Naturopathic Health Care Practitioner, ND. I have additional training and experience and the following credentials: DNHC (Diploma, Natural Health Consultant), DCP (Diplomate, College of Physicians) and FAAIM (Fellow in the American Academy of Integrative Medicine) helping you return to a higher state of natural, healthy balance in your health.
I encourage you to read all the information posted here on our website. Its purpose is to inform, educate, inspire, motivate and empower you with an understanding of alternative, integrative, and complimentary health care services and to give you understanding and hope. Additionally, my work is based on nutrition, detoxification, naturopathy and homeopathy.
The scientific word for that state of balance is "HOMEOSTASIS," and that is our only service and only focus. We do not attempt to treat, cure, or prevent any illness, disease, symptoms, or medical condition - that is the practice of medical and osteopathic doctors. I am a natural health consultant, and we practice strictly within those guidelines.
On the following pages you will find practical information about increasing your immunity, rebalancing your nervous system, improving your health through detoxificaiton and nutritional healing, homeopathic and herbal methods, wellness, prevention, staying young and healthy by making your best lifestyle and wellness choices.
Naturopathy is an alternative and also an integrative health care system. That means that for certain health needs, naturopathic services (*) can offer a wide variety of choices. Sometimes we integrate those same naturopathic services into other health care services from other practitioners, medical and osteopathic physicians.
As you are as unique as your DNA and fingerprints, the goal of our work is to be as specific to your unique, individual needs as possible. You, the patient, are always in charge of your health and your health care services. We provide diagnostic evaluations and care programs to meet your needs. NONE of our services are to attempt to treat, cure or prevent an illness or disease, but only to help identify areas of imbalance in your health, and to help you, through natural means, to strengthen those areas.
(*) Naturopathy includes the use of herbs, vitamins, enzymes, minerals, nutrition, homeopathy, diet, exercise, detoxification, lifestyle and wellness.
Please contact us at 715.341.4949 for more information. We practice family alternative health care, seeing patients ranging in age from newborns through senior citizens, for a wide variety of health issues.
We encourage you to read through each page of our website, there you will find important and valuable information and insights into our work, including information about your first visit and our services.
Practice Information:
People frequently ask us: "What illnesses do you treat?" or "What kinds of patients do you treat?" or "Have you ever treated (fill in the blank with a disease or medical condition)?" These are great questions and I am glad to have the opportunity to explain our work.
When we are in a state of normal, healthy balance (what science calls HOMEOSTASIS), we feel and look well because we are. When this normal, healthy internal balance is compromised, our health suffers and so do we. Treating or trying to cure symptoms is what medical doctors do, and it has little, if anything, to do with true health or real healing. Real healing is what we are about.
As a natural health consultant, I do not "treat," or "try to cure or prevent" any specific illness, disease or medical problem. As a natural health consultant, I work with each individual to help him/her determine where there are imbalances negatively affecting their health, and address those imbalances. We do this through private comprehensive consultations, and additional testing and evaluations which we perform to determine where imbalances have occured. Knowing what caused or contributed to a health breakdown is the starting place for knowing how to address those imbalances and promote healing, promote a return to a higher degree of balance or homeostasis.
Our director of health care services is James R. Bowman, MD, ND, DNHC, DCP, FAAIM (*), who specializes in the european approach and practice of alternative care, using natural methods only.
(*) In the State of Wisconsin, the Department of Regulation and Licensing, Madison, Wisconsin, maintains a policy that even if a health care provider has an MD degree, he or she cannot use the title "physician," unless they are currently licensed as an MD to practice traditional medicine in Wisconsin.
As you will read here and a number of other places in our website, I have medical training and an MD degree, but I am obligated to tell you in absolutely direct and perfectly clear terms, that I am not licensed in Wisconsin as an MD, nor do I practice in Wisconsin as an MD; I practice alternative health care servies only as explained above and in the following pages.
Please also realize that the Department of Regulation & Licensing is the agency in Wisconsin which regulates most health care providers in the state. As there is currently no Board of Naturopathic Medicine in Wisconsin, I work under a federal jurisdictional licensure registration from Washington, DC. Therefore, any questions about our work would be handled by the Department of Health, Washington, DC, and not the Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing.
Also, as you will read here and on many following pages, our practice is that of natural and alternative health care. Traditional medical care diagnoses diseases and tries to treat or cure them - we do not do that. Our work focuses exclusively in helping you identify and improve imbalances in your health, and helping you return to a higher state of normal, healthy, internal balance and function, which science calls "HOMEOSTASIS."
I am part Native American, 1/4 Navajo, and until I was 12 years old I lived on a small remote Navajo Reservation in northwestern New Mexico. There I studied with the Elders of my clan of the Healers and Medicine People, and thus began my love of botanical science and natural healing. My mother, a nurse, encouraged my study of science and was a large influence on my future as a natural and alternative health pracatitioner.
Practice Message:
OUR PRACTICE MISSION:
Many times people are told that traditional medical care has nothing more to offer them, or that they must learn to "live with it." Other times, people are told they must take drugs or have surgery. We offer a variety of clinical options for people seeking better health through natural means.
Our patients range from newborns to senior citizens, with a wide variety of health concerns. Our clinic stands as a recognized leader and regional educational resource in alternative health care, and our doctor, Dr. James R. Bowman, MD, ND, NHC,DCP, FAAIM(*) is one of only a very select few practitioners in the United States to serve in the capacity of Board Advisor to the American Preventive Medical Association (APMA), which is now known as the American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF).
Dr. Bowman also holds active membership in the American Holistic Health Association, the Coalition for Natural Health, and the California State Homeopathic Medical Society.
The APMA/AAHF is a nationally recognized leadership group which helped pass landmark legislation through Congress to fund $150 million in research through the National Institutes of Health for study and validation of alternative health care services, including naturopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, spinal manipulation, physical therapy, herbal care, and many other forms of healing.
This critical research investigates CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) and as an educational resource facility, we participate in such research and we offer the studies and findings to anyone interested in learning more about natural alternatives to drugs and surgery.
For more information please contact the AAHF at their website:
http://www.healthfreedom.net
(*) Dr. Bowman's credentials, MD, ND, DNHC, DCP, FAAIM mean this:
MD stands for Doctor of Medicine, Specialty in Alternative Medicine
ND stands for Doctor of Naturopathy, Board Certified
DNHC stands for Diploma, Natural Health Consultant
DCP stands for Diplomate, College of Physicians
FAAIM stands for Fellow, American Association for Integrative Medicine.
BOARD CERTIFICATION: Dr. Bowman is a Board Certified Naturopathic Practitioner through the American Naturopathic Medical Association (ANMA), the American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board (ANMCAB), and the Council for Naturopathic Registration and Accreditation. (CNRA).
In addition to the above, Dr. Bowman holds Bachelor of Arts Degrees in English and German (Suma Cum Laude), the Phi Beta Kappa Honors, and membership in the National Honors Society. He also hold credentials as a Certified Secondary Education Teacher, having graduated from Teacher's College with highest honors.
Before entering private practice in health care he taught high school for three years and university for three years. The Bachelor's Degrees, and Honors were through the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The teaching posts were in Albuquerque (high school) and Las Vegas, New Mexico (New Mexico Highlands University) where he instructed in the departments of Biology, Microbiology, and Post Graduate Biology Research. He headed a team of reserachers working under a federal grant from the NIH (National Institutes of Health).
One of the more established naturopathic accrediting agencies in the US is the AANP (American Association of Naturopathic Physicians). Dr. Bowman applied for membership in this organization, but because of his European training his application was not accepted. The AANP has a strict policy of not recognizing foreign trained naturopathic practitioners despite the facts of their academic training, experience, and proven expertise as equal to or exceeding US naturopathic training and education. Their position is mostly a politcal one, 'protecting' their own American graduates, but denying membership to equally qualified foreign trained doctors.
Dr. Bowman first studied traditional medicine at the Freie Universität Berlin, Hauptfach für Medizin, in Germany, one of the world's premiere leading medical colleges and scientific research facilities, a pioneer in alternative and intergrative medicine. There he also studied for the additional credentials in naturopathic medicine and homeopathy, both of which healing traditions have the origins in Germany as well.
Upon his return to the US, he became increasingly concerned with the way in which medical care in America was applied to patients, he discontinued his medical studies and followed further his studies in alternative health care. He has advanced training in nutritional healing and detoxification, and is also Board Certified in Naturopathy, including herbal and homeopathic health care. He is an active member of the NCH (National Center for Homeopathy) as well as the AAIM (American Association for Integrative Medicine).
During his medical studies in Germany, Dr. Bowman was also on Active Military Duty there. He was allowed to attend the university medical courses, and take the examinations, but because he was an active military officer, and neither a typical foreign student, nor a natural resident of Germany, he could not officially register as a student and was not granted official university recognition for his studies. His status at the university was "Gast-und-Neben-Hörer," in English, a student taking the courses and examinations, but not granted official credit for the classes and examinations.
Subsequently, he did also complete his MD and received his diploma as an MD in Alternative Medicine. This degree was granted through the Open International University, College of Alternative Medicine, in Srk Lanka, one of the world's leading premiere universities offering practitioner training in complementary and alternative medicine.
Although he has the knowledge and training, he does not practice traditional western allopathic medicine. Because the nature of his work is alternative in nature, he has chosen to practice as a naturopathic practitioner under a federal registration from Washington, D.C. The reason for this is that the philosophies and practices of traditional drugs-and-surgery medicine are so divergent and in direct conflict with the laws and principles of natural healing, Dr. Bowman intentionally chooses to practice only as an alternative, natural, practitioner.
There is more information about his background and his work on later pages in this website which we encourage you to learn more about.
We would like to share with you the seven foundational scientific principles of healing:
1. Your brain and nervous system control everything.
2. Ingestion, digestion and absorption of nutrients maintains the normal, healthy function and balance of your brain and nervous system, and thus, they control these master control systems.
3. Compromise of these master control systems causes your health to break down, symptoms to appear, and eventually, unless corrected, disease, illness and death can result.
4. YOUR SYMPTOMS ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEM ! ! ! What causes your symptoms is your problem. Treating your symptoms never produces healing or health, only genuine, real cellular repair and regeneration of damaged tissues and organs can produce healing, and then true health.
5. Doctors do not heal you - your own body heals when all the barriers to healing are removed, and your natural healing abilities are correctly stimulated and enhanced to help your body repair and regenerate. Your body heals when the master control systems return to normal, healthy balance, called "HOMEOSTASIS," and not a second before.
6. "Real" doctors understand this, they follow and teach you these seven scientific principles of healing. "Real" doctors do not just prescribe drugs to mask or suppress your symptoms; they go far, far beyond this to discover and help you correct the underlying causes of your health break down. "Real" doctors help you heal by helping you remove the barriers to healing. "Real" doctors are "real" people, they are humble, compassionate, dedicated and sincere.
7. This is the true purpose of alternative medicine. Traditional medicine is very different from alternative, complementary or integrative medicine, because traditional medicine teaches you falsely that symptoms are the problem, and when you get a drug to suppress or control your symptoms, then you are well, you have health - NOT SO ! Real health is built from inside your body by your daily habits and lifestyle.
Genetic history counts for a portion of your health, but by far the greater influence and determiner of your past and present health is YOU, what you do to yourself: whether or not you exercise regularly, eat a clean, health-giving diet, digest and absorb your nutrients properly, do not abuse yourself with alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, or drugs. If you are displeased with your health, look in the mirror, admit what it is, and get help - that's our role, to work WITH you in active partnership to help you get well and stay well, to help you find and travel the road back to excellent health by teaching you how to facilitate real healing in your body, so you build real health, lasting health, health you can count on naturally.
IN THE NEXT SECTIONS AND PAGES OF OUR WEBSITE YOU WILL LEARN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE. WE HAVE SPENT MANY HOURS CREATING THIS WEBISTE TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THIS APPROACH TO HEALING AND WELLNESS, BUT WE MUST EXTEND A SERIOUS WARNING TO YOU AS YOU LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS WORK:
When we work with you for detoxificaition and nutritional healing, we follow certain proven methods to assure you the safest, more reliable approach to natural health care.
ABOUT OUR WORK WITH CANCER PATIENTS:
Cancer is a complex, very frightening disease. Research world wide has demonstrated that at the heart of all cancers is a compromise and failure of the immune system. The immune system is the defense system in our bodies. It is designed and programmed to detect and neutralize anything which the body considers to be a foreign invader. This includes bacteria, viruses, parasites, harmful chemicals, etc.
Common medical cancer care includes such approaches as surgery, radiation, and chemo-therapy. Those work well for some people, but not for all. Even if those services are provided and the outcome is favorable, those servicers all have risks, dangers, and side effects.
In our work with cancer patients, we seek to address the underlying and contributing factors which weakened and damaged the immune system. Through a combination of detoxification, as well as nuritional, enyzme and homeopathic methods, we seek to help you help your body restore a higher level of immune function. This may help your body fight the disease and also reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
We work with a number of traditional medical cancer specialists (MD oncologists) in our area and frequently integrate our work with their services to optimize outcomes for cancer patients.
Please contact us for more information. We have worked with both children and adults of all ages dealing with many different types of cancer, and we have more information we can send to you if you request it by simply calling our office at 715.341.4949.
WE WANT WHAT YOU WANT: SAFE, EFFECTIVE NATURAL HEALING, AND RELIABLE CARE.
Health food stores, buying clubs, internet businesses, all may promise to save you lots of money and give you identical nutrients at a discounted price. Please be clear on this: I am a naturopathic practitioner who has spent more than 1/2 my life in natural and nutritional health care. The nutrients we recommend and dispense are the permiere nutrients, available only to licensed, trained and experienced practitioners and to no one else.
If someone tells you that they can get what we dispensed to you, then either that person is lying to you, or they have illegally and unscrupulously obtained substances to which they have no legal access. That is fraud, a very serious criminal act, and it also places your precious gift of health in jeopardy. What they promise you is very impressive, what they deliver may be very different.
Recently a patient under my care with an advanced, very serious health problem which did not respond to any tradtional medical care, decided to shop around in hopes of saving money on his nutrients. He found a website which told him that he could easily purchase the same identical nutrients we had recommended, but he could buy them for much less money through this company.
Right then a red flag should have been raised in his thinking:
MEDICAL ADVICE not from a trained practitioner + cheap nutrients from an unknown source = bad idea with bad results . . .
What happened? He trusted these strangers and their seductive, persuasive sales pitch, he sent his money, he got the items, and was devastated after taking them and feeling worse, not better. The salesperson had illegally obtained nutrients from a legitimate nutritional source under false pretenses (a fake medical license), had bought the nutrients, had diluted them to 1/2 their original potency, then re-sealed and re-packaged them to look like the real thing and had sold them to this patient for a bargain price. This not only wasted the patient's time and money, and set him back in healing, but also disillusioned him about anyone ever again being honest and telling him the truth about nutritional healing.
When you consult with us, and when we work with you, you expect and we promise the very best in health care services. If you want first-class health advice, why would you ever settle for fourth-class nutrients to heal you? They won't, they are nothing like the nutrients we use, they have not been tested nor researched to pass the highest standards which we use in our work. You want the best, so do we, and second best is not good enough.
Instead of talking about nutritional substances, what if we were talking about prescription drugs for your heart, or Alzheimer's, or cancer; would you shop around on the internet or buy some from a catalog, and hope for the best, a great deal on drugs for a cheap price? No, of course not, so why would you do the same thing with your health if you are seeking healing with natural substances?
Pure is pure, quality is quality - and you would actually want to compromise that and your safety and your health to have a little spare change in your pockets? Ask yourself very honestly: "What is my health worth?" If it's not the right answer, rethink your choices, health must come first. With health you can do everything else like work, play, travel, pay your bills, take care of yourself and your loved ones, travel, study, and have fun. With all the money in the world, but no health, what have you really got? Not much!
Because of situations like this it is our firm clinic policy: If you want our help and guidance, you will respect and follow the recommended program and use only the nutrients which we directly dispense to you during your program. When you complete your program for healing and reach your maximum level of wellness, you are completely free to follow any other nutritional program you wish.
You can't have it both ways - cheap health advice, cheap nutrients, and high quality results, it just doesn't work. The choice is your's 100%, but please choose wisely, and make a decision you can truly live with.
For more information, please read the rest of the information on the following pages of our website or call the clinic at 715.341.4949 to speak with our medical director, Dr. Bowman. He will be glad to discuss your health concerns with you, and help you find the approach to healing which is right for you.
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