Holistic medicine is a form of healing that considers the whole person — body, mind, spirit, and emotions — in the quest for optimal health and wellness. According to the holistic medicine philosophy, one can achieve optimal health — the primary goal of holistic medicine practice — by gaining proper balance in life.

Holistic medicine takes into account that the whole person is made up of interdependent parts and if one part is not working properly, all the other parts will be affected. In this way, if people have imbalances (physical, emotional, or spiritual) in their lives, it can negatively affect their overall health.

A holistic doctor may use all forms of health care, from conventional medication to alternative therapies, to treat a patient. For example, when a person suffering from migraine headaches pays a visit to a holistic doctor, instead of walking out solely with medications, the doctor will likely take a look at all the potential factors that may be causing the person’s headaches, such as other health problems, diet and sleep habits, stress and personal problems, and preferred spiritual practices. The treatment plan may involve drugs to relieve symptoms, but also lifestyle modifications to help prevent the headaches from recurring.

Naturopathic medicine provides primary patient care that blends natural medicine with conventional diagnosis and treatment. Naturopathic medicine treats the cause of illness, works to prevent disease whenever possible and teach patients how to live healthy lives. Naturopathic medicine includes many tools to treat patients, including nutrition, lifestyle medicine, physical medicine, and herbal therapies.

Alternative medicine is holistic care or treatment that addresses an individual as a whole person. Proponents of alternative medicine believe in the body’s power to heal itself and believe treatment should involve the body, mind, and spirit. Care is personalized and varies based on symptoms. A patient-practitioner relationship characterized by a partnership in which the patient is encouraged to question and suggest treatment options is central to an alternative care approach.

After years of additional studies in alternative and holistic medicine, Dr. Duke created a non-invasive technique to get to the root cause of health conditions. Through muscle testing, acupuncture, orthomolecular supplementation, and additional modalities, Dr. Duke has successfully treated hundreds of patients who were unable to find relief through conventional methods.

Muscle Testing is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body in order to determine the underlying causes of ill health. When these are corrected through safe, natural, nutritional means, the body can repair itself in order to attain and maintain more optimum health. It is a means of tuning in to the function of your body’s electrical system or nervous system. This allows for real-time detection of excesses, deficiencies, and stressors to the body in regards to vitamins, hormones, minerals, yeasts, molds, fungus, heavy metals, and many more potential underlying problems.

At your first visit Dr. Duke will listen to your health issues/concerns and then run through a detailed intake to get a better understanding of your health and medical history. He will then run through a series of non-invasive in-house tests that will assess the functional capacity of the organs themselves as well as underlying root cause issues like molds, fungus, yeasts, bacteria, viruses, parasites and many others. Dr. Duke will then run through more tests to address what protocol would specifically address your health issues. The protocol is completely tailored to your individual needs and eliminates the guess work used in other physicians offices.

Other alternative offices say they are doing work different than conventional care because they don’t use pharmaceuticals and run more expansive tests. We used to do this but did not obtain the results we do now because we realized that the tests themselves are just an indicator that something is wrong, not the problem. Alternative physicians simply raise or lower lab values naturally and therefore are doing the same thing as their conventional counterparts. Our protocols addressing organ dysfunction directly allows us to resolve patients complaints that other offices can not. We clean up and resolve the tough issues that other physicians both conventional and alternative, can not.

Dr. Duke runs through a number of different modalities that involve stressing the central nervous system and allowing him to pinpoint dysfunction. These tests are unique in that the body can not lie about what is stressing the organs or underlying issues. These tests are done without any equipment beyond simple muscle strength tests. They are clinically proven to be as effective as lab tests in determining underlying root cause issues. More importantly, they can address the capacity of the organ which there is no lab test for. If an organ system is stressed and incapable of performing its functions optimally, the body will suffer. This does not mean the organ is diseased but simply fatigued. In the same way you can overexert a muscle. However, you can rest a muscle but you can not turn off an essential organ. Therefore it is crucial to provide therapeutic dosages of whatever an organ needs to allow it to regain complete functional capacity.

By addressing the underlying root cause issue AND the capacity of the organ to function optimally, healing can commence. Only by addressing both issues can true healing occur. Dr. Duke will have tailored a program specific to you that provides therapeutic dosages necessary to resolve your issues to move the body in the direction of optimal health. This will require dosing and managing over a period of time depending a few factors but always leads to resolution.