Matt Kelly discusses bridging naturopathic and conventional medicine through scientific evidence. He describes leading with literature and clinical experience when talking to specialists, though reactions vary: some engage, others disengage. Patient understanding and buy-in matter most.
Naturopathic medicine, conventional medicine, that bridge has been science. It has been evidence.
I just found it greased the wheels if I led with evidence, because if I put the literature together as to why I was doing what I was doing, sometimes there's explanation of also clinical experience, and I would send that to them. Only 2 things happened. One would be you'd find an open-minded specialist who literally— I've had them say, I didn't even know there was data on this. I've never seen this, or they literally never talk to you again, right? Now, what they say behind your back is a whole other thing, but it's like once you say data is always imperfect, but this is why we're doing what we're doing, this is the history and the background we have with it, and the patient, you know, is on board and they, they understand
