LETIZIA FULVIO, NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN

My story began during adolescence when I began to suffer severe allergies in different areas of my body. My parents took me to many doctors, who were unable to provide a clear diagnosis and prescribed a variety of medications. As my situation worsened, I was given stronger and more frequent medications, such as cortisone. During those years I had many uncomfortable sleepless nights and a great deal of mental and physical suffering.

We visited other famous doctors, even abroad, and each visit was more difficult and unsuccessful. In the meantime my allergies grew worse. The cortisone gave me temporary, mild relief, along with devastating side-effects: gastritis, dry skin, insomnia, severe joint pain, kidney dysfunction and infections. My allergies increased from being present only in springtime to becoming a constant problem throughout the year. Even vaccinations had no effect.

As time progressed, my trust in doctors diminished more and more. After taking them for 15 years, I became an expert in the medications I had been prescribed. Over time I began to ask myself if there could be alternative forms of diagnosis and treatment. I began to study the meanings of the symptoms I was experiencing, and understood these were signals our body sends us. The therapeutic method I was following focused on the elimination of my symptoms, without understanding the underlying situation in my body. Conventional doctors failed to understand the true causes of the disease.

Through a series of coincidences, as often happens when you don't find the right solution to a problem after many attempts, I went to an alternative medicine doctor. He listened to me carefully and explained that my problems stemmed from internal rather than external causes. He treated me with new and unfamiliar techniques. He changed my diet and prescribed herbal medicines tailored for me. In other words, he provided natural remedies to help my body find a way to heal itself. Above all, he taught me that the cause of these symptoms that had ruined my adolescence and young adulthood were not coming from outside my body but from internal imbalances .

Today I can say that those terrible, dark years are only a memory. Through consistency and determination I have been able to change my habits and life-style, face the causes, instead of treating the symptoms, to live attentively in my environment, to nourish myself with awareness and wisdom, to search the natural aspects of life, trying to find symbiosis with my individual rhythms and needs, and listening to the harmony and balance of the body together with the brain.

It is this personal experience of regaining my own health that led me to study, practice and teach many different forms of natural therapies today. My goal is to offer these true daily resources, available for anyone who wishes to maintain their physical and emotional balance or to regain their well-being if it has been lost.