Mike is a Bachelor Qualified Naturopath who studied at Endeavour College of Natural Health in Melbourne, graduating in 2021. He has a passion in making health as simple and uncomplicated as it can be. His interests lay in:
- metabolic health conditions
- physical health
- gastrointestinal health
- cardiovascular health
- male health
His aim is to outreach to as many people as he can and provide healthcare as well as provide knowledge to help people be a better them as simply as possible.
How I Discovered Naturopathy
From a young age I always enjoyed playing with plants, mixing things together and imagining they were potions while I explored the backyard vanquishing imaginary foes with my childhood neighbour. It was all fun and games, thinking that I would mix something that would help us in our make-believe battles. I never believed something like a childhood game could become a reality.
Years later, we became adults and our childhood games were replaced with the reality of the world we really live in. I saw sickness in family and friends, and decided to pursue a career in medicine; which was short-lived as I watched my father with illness deteriorating while relying solely on medicine. For months, he continued to get worse and nothing seemed to be working. It may have been simply the timing of when he started improving, or it may have been the new addition to his health regimen that he began implementing – he began seeing a naturopath.
Within weeks my dad began returning to his normal self, walking from room to room without being out of breath, colour started returning to his face and, weeks later, he returned to work. This was my first introduction to Naturopathy. A medicine that I believed only existed in my imagination was giving my dad the strength to continue to strive to face new battles.
Naturopathy isn’t as basic as mixing potions like I was doing in the backyard as a kid. And sure, we don’t live in a world where we constantly go out to battles with monsters, but I believe we are battling constantly with our lives, with ourselves and with the world we live in. Naturopathy, to me, is a way to help us stay in the fight and be the best that we can be.