New Patients

What to Expect:

• A thorough investigation of your medical concerns
• Comprehensive medical and lifestyle history
• Review of medications and supplements that you are currently taking
• Organize, prioritize and guide you with best quality supplements and dosage recommendations
• Analysis of past lab work and creation of new labs necessary to order next
• Appropriate physical exam if deemed necessary
• Establishing your health goals
• Detailed explanation of our treatment recommendations and our action plan

Prepare for Your First Visit:

Step 1:

Complete the New Patient Intake and consent forms prior to your visit. These forms are emailed to you once you schedule your new patient visit and they can also be found in your Charm Patient Portal. Our patient portal is designed to keep everything electronic and HIPPA compliant. All of your patient records will be stored in this secure portal. Your record will include consent forms, lab results, treatment plans, communications and educational handouts. To read the full Notice of Privacy Practices, click HERE.

Step 2:

If you have recent blood work, scans or tests completed by your prior doctor or health care provider from the past year, please organize and bring these reports to your first visit. You can also get a head start by uploading these on the Patient Portal under Documents before your appointment.

Step 3:

Learn more about Fullscript, our online supplement pharmacy. If you need any assistance completing your order at the end of your appointment or between visits, our Nourish Team is available to assist you.

Step 4:

Visit our contact page to review directions and parking instructions prior to your visit for prompt arrival time. You can also view our virtual tour so you can see what our building, office and even the parking lot looks like so you can find our office with ease. For any questions, feel free to call 619-345-3111. Please keep in mind we have a 48 hour $50 cancellation policy to respect the needs of our patients on our waiting list.

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Questions/Answers

Talk to us! We offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation (in person or over the telephone), during which a Nourish doctor will learn more about you and help you match your needs to our various services. If Nourish isn’t right for you, we’ll tell you, and even help point you to other resources or options elsewhere, so you can continue your journey to health. Think of this offer as a your personal health match-maker!

We accept cash, checks, all major credits cards along with HSA and FSA credit cards. We do not accept insurance for office visits, however, we do accept insurance for select laboratory tests. We continuously research lab companies to get the best rates and options for our patients. For office visit reimbursement, we can give you the necessary paperwork to file with your insurance company. Some are reimbursed through “out-of-network” benefits. This model ensures high quality care with time dedicated just for you.

Naturopathic medicine emphasizes prevention, treatment and optimal health utilizing the body's innate self-healing processes. Naturopathic treatments may include the following practices and modalities: clinical and laboratory testing, nutritional and botanical medicines, dietary recommendations, homeopathy, intravenous and injection therapies, lifestyle changes and various forms of counseling. NDs use a wide range of natural therapies and also write prescriptions for pharmaceuticals when appropriate. Naturopathic doctors seek to treat the underlying causes of disease and to restore the whole body to optimal health. Naturopathic doctors promote wellness using the safest, most effective and least invasive therapies available.

Nourish provides health services and medical care for all ages, both men and women. We regularly treat patients who have repeatedly visited other practitioners without finding the right solutions for them. Our patients are open to natural treatments and seek a healthcare partner who listens to what they have to say and takes a whole approach to health, inclusive of how mind and soul affect the body. Some of our patients are dealing with ongoing health concerns, others have no symptoms but simply want to prevent disease and promote their best health. We cover everything from chronic disease and acute illness to menopause, andropause, weight gain and more.

In short, we treat people who want to care for their bodies in a more nurturing way. It’s all in the name!

Your body gives you signals when something isn’t working for you. When your car is acting funny and a light goes on, you can deal with it one of two ways:

Reset the button and ignore the alert
Drive to the auto shop

If you choose to reset the button and ignore the alert your car will continue to become more and more of a hassle and that light will turn right back on before you know it. If you really want to figure out WHY the service light went off in the first place you drive to see a mechanic (the "car expert"), ask them to diagnose the problem, and fix your car so it won’t happen again. When and how you address the problem can make the difference between driving for another 100,000 miles and ending up pulled over on the side of the road!

Your body is constantly sending you signals about your wellbeing (or lack thereof). Our Nourish Doctors will take a close look at the “alerts” you’re getting and listen carefully to what your body may be trying to say. For us, it’s about turning off the annoying dashboard alert while getting under the hood to see if it can be fixed once and for all.

In the case of any medical emergency, you should always dial 911, visit an emergency room or urgent care facility.

For non-urgent matters pertaining to your previous visit or treatment plan, you can call us during our business hours or send us a short message through your Patient Portal and we will get back to you as soon as possible (usually within two business days). For messages for Dr. Stewart, please call the office or message Coleen, Dr. Stewart's assistant in your Patient Portal.

For non-urgent matters pertaining to your previous visit or treatment plan, you can call us during our business hours or send us a short message through your Patient Portal and we will get back to you as soon as possible (usually within two business days). For messages for Dr. Stewart, please call the office or message Coleen, Dr. Stewart's assistant in your Patient Portal.

Prop 65 is a California law that requires a warning on any products containing qualifying levels of over 800 substances, such as pesticides, heavy metals, and even Vitamin A at certain levels.

The reason some products contain this warning is due to the presence of lead above 0.5 mcg per recommended daily dose per serving.

Lead in high amounts is absolutely dangerous and not advised. However, the highest per serving lead level found in any Nourish product is less than you might find in a 4oz. serving of lettuce!!

We use the purest ingredients available, but lead is everywhere in our environment and is impossible to avoid in many natural, plant based ingredients. That is because lead is found in the soil where the plants are grown and, therefore, it is present in virtually all plant-based products.

Examples of lead content of common foods are reported by U.S. FDA (these foods would require a Prop 65 warning if they were dietary supplements)

- Lettuce, leaf, raw (4oz) 1.59 mcg/serving

- Spinach, fresh/frozen, boiled (4oz) 7.03 mcg/serving

- Sweet potatoes, fresh, baked (4oz) 7.26 mcg/serving

That fact is – most foods found in the produce section of the grocery store, along with many other healthy foods such as nuts, fish, wine and many others – would require a Prop65 warning label if the law was uniformly enforced.

No! As the State of California’s own Proposition 65 website states, “A Proposition 65 warning does not necessarily mean a product is in violation of any product-safety standards or requirements.”

The FDA’s Recommended Safe and Tolerable Daily Diet Lead Intake for adults is 75mcg. This is 150 times the amount that requires a Prop 65 warning, and yet is considered safe by the U.S. FDA. The FDA has established 750mcg as the amount of lead that is known to cause health problems. This is 1,500 times the amount that requires a Prop 65 warning.

Nourish Medical Center offers convenient blood draws in-office for $35. Appointments are necessary to ensure adequate time dedicated for your lab tests, possible insurance discussions and test kit explanations.

If you do not live nearby, there may be other options available, including visiting your local LabCorp or Quest for standard lab tests. Mobile phlebotomy services may also be an option when necessary.

Nourish offers shipping for many of our functional test kits for you to complete at home.

Your labs can be viewed during your follow up consult in your Charm patient portal located HERE. For in-office consults, we often print you a copy of your lab results to take notes on. In urgent cases, you can call our office to review, sign and share your lab results ahead of time but we ask for you to reserve this request for urgent matters only. Sharing your lab results ahead of your scheduled follow up appointment does not provide a full interpretation or treatment plan so we always prefer to have your doctor review these with you.