Healthcare Services

The Marsden Centre offers a wide variety of healthcare services including Naturopathic Medicine, Supportive Cancer Care, Environmental Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Whole Health Naturopathic Practice

Naturopathic medicine is a distinct form of primary healthcare for all ages. Illness prevention and treatment are both areas that naturopathic doctors have extensive training on. An initial visit includes a detailed intake on health history, as well as clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques to identify the physiological and biochemical imbalances. The goal is to understand the root cause of these results. Focusing on the root cause of disease can prevent symptoms that may progress or evolve in the future. Naturopathic doctors focus on functional medicine approaches towards individualized, evidence-based treatments that involve supporting the body’s natural ability to heal, with the most minimally invasive methods. Naturopathic treatments include clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, physical therapies, homeopathic medicine, acupuncture and Asian medicine, as well as lifestyle counseling.

Some examples of reasons for seeking naturopathic care include, but not limited to:

General health (both children and adults)
Digestive concerns
Pain management
Adjunctive cancer care
Hormonal imbalances

Here at Marsden Centre, we believe in an integrative medical approach towards your health. Our goal is to incorporate patient education, clinical research, and natural therapies that are optimal and catered specifically to you.

Integrative Cancer Care

At Marsden Centre, we support patients who have been affected by cancer.

This can be pre and post surgery, during conventional treatment, after conventional treatment and palliative care. Some potential benefits of the therapies we provide include: reduce side effects of and improve tolerance and efficacy of conventional treatment, increase survival and reduce rates of cancer recurrence, improved quality of life by increasing energy, reducing pain, improving appetite, etc. and education and support for patients and their family.

Environmental Medicine

Our environment is affecting our health. As of the end of 2009, there were over 19,000 federally contaminated sites in Canada and almost 1300 Superfund sites in the United States. Arsenic, lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), benzene and cadmium have been prioritized as top seven hazardous substances based on their potential for exposure, frequency, and toxicity. Environmental medicine provides methods for the evaluation of toxins and their impact on individual’s health and the development of treatment strategies to eliminate these toxins from the body and mitigate their health effects.

Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complete natural medical system that includes an over 2500 year history of herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupressure, meditation, dietary and lifestyle principles, and more. Treatments are meant to correct imbalances in the flow of Qi (chi), energy and blood throughout the body. In Chinese medicine, impairment and imbalance in this flow is believed to cause illness, and restoring the normal flow can thus restore health. Growing research evidence also shows that TCM can play an essential role in integrative cancer care.