We don't offer in-person IV-therapy, glutathione pushes, vitamin D or PRP injections. We do however, provide patients with prescriptions for at-home b12/folate injections and will walk you through instructions on how to do to this type of care, if applicable.

Dr. Alton can prescribe dessicated thyroid hormone, vaginal or topical progesterone hormone, oral or topical estrogen hormone and prescription dose vitamin D. She works with a nurse practitioner (additional cost) for her patients to get access to oral progesterone, peptide-injections, topical testosterone therapy, synthetic thyroid hormone, low-dose naltrexone, and prescriptions for antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitics, or antiviral therapy, when needed. Prescriptions are typically given for 90-days, and doses can vary from 1x/day - 1x/week, depending on the need/ medication.

No services, consults, lab testing, prescriptions or procedures, given by your naturopathic doctor or the consults with our private nurse practitioner, are covered by government healthcare (OHIP, RAMQ). Health benefits or extended health insurance plans, will provide some reimbursement for the costs of consults, and rarely lab testing, under the naturopathic medicine benefit. The drug-plan from your extended health insurance plan, will prescriptions given that have a D.I.N. (drug-identification number), but not compounded medications or lab testing paid for out of pocket.

We do not provide our patients with Direct Billing. We keep a credit card on file, that is tokenized, and use that for automatic payment of services received. You can then download your invoice as a PDF, from your portal, and submit that to your insurance plan, if applicable. Or you can submit it to your accountant at the end of year, for a medical claim.

Yes. Half our patient population comes to work with us after already seeing many physicians in the conventional healthcare system, and so are already on medication. We will customize your treatment plan to make sure there are no interactions with your current medication, and ask that you update your profile, whenever you go on or off medication, from another provider. If we prescribe you a medication, we will also write a letter to update your primary care provider.

Naturopathic doctors have a minimum of 3 years of university education followed by 4 years at an accredited Naturopathic college.

In Naturopathic Medical College, Naturopathic Doctors study advanced medical and clinical sciences, health diagnostics such as laboratory testing, clinical diagnosis, differential diagnosis, naturopathic assessment, natural therapies (including nutrition, supplements, botanical therapies, lifestyle counselling and acupuncture), and complete a 1-year clinical internship to gain clinical experience.

Naturopathy and homeopathy are medical disciplines that have existed for hundreds of years. Many people use the terms naturopathy and homeopathy interchangeably. However, they are two distinct disciplines of medicine, with different natural treatment plans and philosophies. The goal of naturopathy is to treat the whole person, and also focuses on preventative medicine. Naturopathy can effectively treat a variety of health conditions, with a variety of tools.

Homeopathy's philosophy is to treat “like” with “like.” This means that whatever is causing your illness can also be used to cure it. Therefore, the homeopathic remedy corresponds to the symptoms. Homeopathic doctors use exclusively one tool, homeopathic remedies, as treatment. It also treats a wide variety of health concerns.

In our clinic, we use homeopathic remedies for pediatric cases and for drainage or detoxification support for complex cases, before a patient can begin biomedical treatment tools like supplements and medications.

Typically patients need 4-5 visits in their first year, and 3-4 visits in their second year, to overcome heir health concerns and build a foundation to prevent future reoccurrence. Often patients will see their naturopathic doctor for more frequent visits in the first two years, and then move to one consult every 6 months for maintenance, when on a prescription OR maintain touch-points annually, as a member of our Confident Hormone Club.