Dr. Jennifer MacKenzie, Naturopathic Doctor, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Jennifer MacKenzie, ND Dr. MacKenzie is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor with a clinical focus in Women’s Health, Digestive Health and Auto-immune conditions. Her approach to medicine is to offer a comprehensive health assessment, including a focused physical exam and laboratory testing. Dr. MacKenzie uses a combination of safe and effective natural medicine such as nutrition and lifestyle counselling, herbal medicine, acupuncture, IV Nutrient Therapy and Bowen Therapy. She has also done addition training to obtain her prescriptive authority to ensure prescription medication is an option when necessary. In practice, she tailors each of her treatment plans to meet the needs of her patients while considering their goals, values and lifestyles. Dr. MacKenzie believes that a healthy lifestyle is built on a foundation using building blocks of habits, rituals and mindfulness. The building blocks are unique to every individual but can include: eating nutritious food, exercise, quality sleep, drinking plenty of water, expressing your creativity and time with friends and family. Through listening, education and support Dr. MacKenzie will help to build your foundational health. Clinical Focus: "I have always been a sensitive soul. Are we born this way or does life make us become this way? I like to think it is a bit of both. Growing up I would describe myself as an empathic, intuitive child with sensitivities tending toward psychic experiences and awareness of souls who have passed on from this life. As you can imagine this was quite confusing, and overwhelming. I was left with a deep sense of fear and being different from others for much of my life. Simultaneously, it created in me a deep awareness of other people and an ability to perceive and understand the emotional/energetic field of all beings around me. For this reason, among others, I began to orient my life towards being a healer or helper of some kind as an opportunity to use these gifts for good. ? After high school, I spent one year living in Ecuador volunteering at a school for indigenous children. Upon my return, I pursued undergraduate studies in Counseling and Social Work and began working with medicinal plants. Along the way I discovered Naturopathic Medicine and recognized it as a more holistic, compassionate form of health care. Prior to attending medical school, I spent time working as a social worker for children/teens with Cerebral Palsy and developmental disabilities. This was a formative and impactful time in my life. As so often happens with people who have highly attuned and activated nervous systems, I have had a challenging personal health journey. After a long history of health problems, unanswered questions and disillusionment with conventional medical care, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a genetic autoimmune disease of the small intestine. With hard work, determination and a combination of plant medicines, pharmaceutical medication, diet change and much personal emotional and trauma healing, I have reclaimed my health. In August 2019 I celebrated a “no evidence of Crohn's Disease” colonoscopy result with a full discharge from gastroenterology care. This was an incredibly confirming moment for me and

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One of the most common conditions women experience during their first trimester of their pregnancy is nausea and vomiting and although it is quite normal, it can cause women a lot of stress and fatigue as well as a loss of a lot of nutrients and fluids.

The cause isn’t fully understood. However, it’s mainly due to the increase – the exponential increase of hormones experienced during this time, mainly HCG, estrogen, and progesterone. These hormones have effects on all other cells in the body as well which can cause some of these gastrointestinal symptoms women feel.

Although nausea can be very frustrating and tiring for women, there are a lot of treatment options to help. Simple things like changing your diet and your lifestyle can make a huge impact, like having regular exercise or ensuring that there’s always food in your stomach. Having an empty stomach can actually make the nauseating symptoms much more severe. So keeping a snack in your purse or in your car will help alleviate some of these symptoms.

Dehydration is common in women with increased nausea and vomiting so it’s really important to find ways to replenish fluid in the body. If you’re not able to keep water down or have trouble taking in water, intravenous vitamin therapy is a great alternative.

With this treatment, your naturopathic doctor can also infuse vitamins directly into your blood stream. Vitamins such as B6 and B12 will help decrease the nauseous feeling as well as increase energy throughout your pregnancy. Again, it depends on the patient. And we often will design very specific treatment plans in terms of supplements and dietary change to help with these symptoms.  Lab tests, of course, play a big role in diagnosing digestive issues. So, we would look at systemic levels of inflammation. We can also measure hydrogen and methane on the breath to determine if there are any microorganisms contributing to these symptoms.  If you’re experiencing digestive issues of any kind and you’d like to learn more about what’s causing these symptoms, see your local naturopathic doctor.