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Noble Naturopathic
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When the tests come back normal and you still don't feel right
That's usually where this work starts. I'm a naturopathic doctor in Vancouver, originally trained and licensed as a family physician in Argentina. The first visit is sixty to ninety minutes, and most of it is you talking — your sleep, your digestion, your history, and the order in which things started going wrong. Then a plan that looks for root causes rather than just managing symptoms.
Two Vancouver locations, same visit at either — pick whichever fits your day. Both can
start with a free 15-minute intro if you'd rather talk first.
Direct billing for most extended health plans.
- Trained & licensed as a family physician in Argentina
- English & Español
- Registered ND — College of Complementary Health Professionals of BC
- Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine — CCNM
What I treat
What I see most often
- Chronic stress and burnout
- Anxiety or trouble winding down
- Insomnia and broken sleep
- IBS, bloating and reflux
- Fatigue and low energy
- A system that will not switch off
These tend to cluster for a reason. Your gut has a nervous system of its own, wired to your brain by a nerve that runs both ways — and most of the traffic on it goes upward.
So the person with the reflux is very often the same person who's awake at 3am and short-tempered by Thursday. It isn't three problems. It's one system making the same adjustment in three places, which is why treating them one at a time usually doesn't hold.
What that doesn't tell you is which one is driving yours. That's the part we work out together, and it's most of what the first visit is for.
If three or more of those sound like you, that's usually enough to start with.
Book a first visit
First, the basics
What a naturopathic doctor actually is
The title means different things in different places. In British Columbia it's a regulated health profession.
It's a post-graduate medical program with licensing exams, regulated by the College of Complementary Health Professionals of BC. We're trained in the same basic medical sciences as any physician: anatomy, physiology, pathology and diagnosis. After that comes a different set of tools for treatment.
What that means for you is that I can order and read lab work, and I can tell when something needs conventional medical care, and I'll say so. What I can't do is replace your family doctor, but we can work together.
I offer general naturopathic care for a wide range of health concerns, not only the pattern described above.
If you'd rather know where all of that comes from first, I've written out how I came to practise this way — Argentina, then India and Nepal, then naturopathic medicine here.
How I look at a case
Four layers, one person
When someone new sits down, I'm listening for which layer the problem is really living in. It's usually more than one, and they usually feed each other.
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Structure
How you're built and how you move — posture, breathing mechanics, old injuries that quietly changed the way you hold yourself.
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Chemistry
What the bloodwork and the symptoms suggest about nutrition, hormones, inflammation and digestion. This is where lab testing earns its place.
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Energy
How well your system moves between alert and at rest — the electrical and emotional patterns that regulate vitality, mood, and stress response. Breath, heart rhythm and muscle tone all move with it. When it's balanced, everything else tends to heal more easily; when it's not, that's usually where the fatigue, the anxiety and the broken sleep are coming from. Older traditions called this Qi, or Prana. I'm comfortable with any of those words. This is the layer acupuncture and sound therapy work on directly.
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Meaning
What you're carrying, what matters to you, what changed in your life before the symptoms started. We take this into account too — ignoring it makes the other three harder to read honestly.
Healing is not one-dimensional.
Neither is my approach.
And neither are you.
Book your visit
Same visit, either location
The consultation runs the same way at both clinics — same length, same approach. Choose whichever is easier for you to get to.
East Vancouver
Empower Health
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Get directionsNot ready to commit? Either location can start with a free 15-minute intro — no cost, no obligation to continue.
What it costs, before you ask
First visit $250 · 60–90 min. Follow-ups run from $70 to $240 depending on how long we need. Direct billing available for most extended health insurance plans. If you're not sure yours qualifies, ask when you book and we'll check before your visit.
Lab work, if we order any, is separate, and I'll tell you what it costs before you agree to it. There are no packages and nothing you have to sign up for. If the price is the reason you're hesitating, start with the free 15-minute call.
24 hours notice required. $50 fee for missed or late-cancelled visits.
Your first visit
Leave with an actual plan — in three steps
- 01
Book
Pick a time, then fill in the intake form that comes with your confirmation. Bring recent bloodwork if you have it.
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60–90 minutes
Sleep, digestion, stress, history, what you've already tried and what happened. Lab testing only if it will change what we do.
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Your plan
Written, specific, built for your week. We reassess on a date we set together.
No mandatory packages. No pressure to buy supplements from me. And I can work alongside your family doctor — not instead of them.
The toolkit
What I work with
- Clinical nutrition
- Less about a diet than about finding the specific deficits and irritants keeping your system on edge — and working on those.
- Botanical medicine
- Plant medicine at clinical doses, chosen for your case and checked against anything else you take.
- Acupuncture
- Direct nervous system work. Useful for sleep, pain and the wired-and-tired state.
- Lifestyle medicine
- The unglamorous levers — light, movement, meals, recovery — applied to your actual week, not an ideal one.
- Sound therapy
- Where it fits. Ten years of practice, used as part of the plan rather than sold as an add-on.
The sound work has a page of its own, with what a session involves and what it costs.
Not on the list yet: IV therapy and chelation. Training's completed — the service will be available in the coming months. If that's what brought you here, call the clinic in the meantime and I'll point you the right way.
Before a first visit
What people ask me first
Do I need a referral to see a naturopathic doctor?
No. You can book directly, and most people do. If you'd like your family doctor kept in the loop, I can send them a summary of what I found with your written consent — but nothing here depends on a referral.
Are naturopathic doctors regulated in British Columbia?
Yes. In BC it's a regulated health profession, governed by the College of Complementary Health Professionals of British Columbia. It's a four-year post-graduate medical program with licensing exams, and my registration is on the College's public register — you can look it up by surname.
Can a naturopathic doctor order lab work in BC?
Yes. I can order and read lab work. I order it only when the result would change what we do, and you'll know what it costs before anything is sent — no test arrives as a surprise on a bill.
Can I keep taking my prescriptions?
Yes, and bring the list to the first visit — prescriptions, supplements, anything. Any botanical medicine I suggest gets checked against what you already take. I work alongside your family doctor, so nothing I do is meant to replace what they've put you on.
What should I bring to a first visit?
Any recent bloodwork, and a list of what you're taking. If you don't have bloodwork, that's fine too — we start from what you can tell me, and order testing later only if it will change the plan.
Do I have to take supplements?
No. If something is worth taking I'll tell you why and for how long, and you can buy it wherever you like. There are no packages and nothing you have to sign up for.
Where in Vancouver do you practise?
At two clinics. Noble Naturopathic on West Broadway, Mondays and Tuesdays, and Empower Health on Commercial Drive in East Vancouver, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It's the same visit at either one — pick whichever fits your week.
¿Puedo hacer la consulta en español?
Sí. La consulta completa se puede hacer en español: la historia clínica, el plan escrito y el seguimiento. Me formé y ejercí como médico de familia en Argentina antes de venir a Canadá, así que es mi primera lengua.
Book a first visit
Sixty to ninety minutes, in English or Spanish, at either Vancouver location.
Initial visit $250 · 60–90 min — or start with a free 15-min discovery call if you're not ready to commit.