*Healing at the root cause level with integrative healthcare expert, Dr. Jaquel Patterson

Well, Dr. Jakkel, thank you so much for joining us today.

I'm so excited to learn from you, and I'm so curious about all the things that you're working on and focused on.

You have such a broad expertise, and so I'm excited to learn from you myself.

I'm excited for our listeners, our audience, to learn from you.

So thank you so much for being with us today.

Thank you so much for having me.

Always enjoy having these conversations, so I'm looking forward to the conversation.

And so you're a naturopathic doctor.

You have your MBA as well, is that right?

Yes.

Yeah.

I'm kind of, one of my friends used to say, like, renaissance person in terms of I have a, a background in business and healthcare operations.

That's also all part of my story of how I ended up d- doing all of that, but my true passion and my heart has always been in integrative medicine since the beginning.

Yeah.

Well, I'm excited to dive into, into that and really break that down for our listeners too, but you're leading this kind of major national organization, right? So-

Yes, I'm president of the American Association for Naturopathic Physicians, which is the source for licensed physicians that are in the state.

We're about 26 licensed states in the United States, uh, for practicing of naturopathic medicine.

So on top of that, you're also a new mom, I just learned.

[laughs]

Yes.

So- [laughs]

I have my sixth as well

... just a few things going on.

If you hear crying in the background, that, that might be why.

Yeah.