I’m Eric Bakker, a naturopathic physician from New Zealand. For more than 30 years patients with acute and chronic disease travelled to receive our natural medicine treatment recommendations. If you’ve watched any of my videos, you will know that I don’t recommend quick fix solutions to health problems, instead, treatment is aimed at long-term solutions. Although I retired from clinical practice in 2019, I remain active online with a focus on natural health and wellbeing education through my Facebook page and YouTube channel including the many articles on this website. I’m happy to inform that many patients have improved their health by following our diet and lifestyle advice. I love my profession and consider myself fortunate to be a part of someone’s recovery from the chronic condition they may have endured for years. Many patients came to our clinic after being told by their doctor ‘there is nothing more we can do’, our clinic was their last resort. This lead me to clinically research and study complex health conditions over a period of many years.
About Eric Bakker Naturopath
As a professionally registered and qualified naturopath, I have always believed in integrative medicine, a healthcare paradigm that emphasises customised personal patient care. It integrates evidence-based traditional and complementary treatments in conjunction with the finest of modern evidence-based western medical methods.
I have always practiced in conjunction with medical doctors and in the past worked in medical clinics in Australia and New Zealand. Before retirement in 2019, patients with chronic and complex disease would travel far and wide to receive treatment recommendations at our clinic in a small village called Havelock North in the North Island, New Zealand. Patients would catch-up for regular monthly consultations on the telephone, FaceTime, Skype and eventually Zoom. I’ve worked with a wide of variety of diets and lifestyles, as well as natural medicines, and developed the most clinically effective programmes based on my own clinical experiences. I enjoyed clinical naturopathic practice for over 30 years, and since retirement have focused my attention to online natural health and wellbeing education. I’m not a medical doctor, but a naturopath, in New Zealand and Australia only Chiropractors are considered “doctors of natural medicine”. Before discussing my qualifications and what I’ve done in the past, let’s look at the fundamental difference between a naturopath and a medical doctor.
The Naturopath
Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are professionally registered, licensed and qualified in the same fundamental health and biological sciences as Medical Doctors (MDs). In both MD and ND programme, the first two years of medical school are devoted to biological science, clinical sciences, and diagnostics. Naturopaths and medical doctors study almost similar fundamental and core clinical sciences, including anatomy and physiology, pathology, biochemistry, clinical physical diagnosis, genetics, pharmacology, microbiology, and other areas covered in the many hours of training for both NDs and MDs. Introduction to naturopathic modalities such as homoeopathy, nutrition, diet and nutrition, biochemistry, and plant therapy are also included in the early years of naturopathic medical school.
During the first two years of study, naturopaths establish a more complete understanding of health and illness based on Western medical disciplines. They may use this information to improve abilities in diagnosis, illness prevention, and wellness enhancement. A naturopathic education must include clinical experience to patient care, they can spend 1500 hours or more in a clinical internship working with patients as part of completing their education. I completed three separate clinical internships, for homeopathy, herbal medicine and naturopathy.
Naturopaths have a strong interest in the patient’s nutrition, diet and lifestyle
In various respects, naturopathic medical programmes differ from standard medical schools throughout the third and fourth years of study. Non-pharmaceutical/non-surgical techniques to addressing patient diseases, including as lifestyle counselling, clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, and other health promotion therapies, take up a large portion of ND curriculum. Most naturopaths have a strong interest in diet, nutrition and wellbeing, long before they studied.
Naturopathic medicine students, like MD students, learn to treat all elements of family health and wellbeing, but in addition learn and research holistic and non-pharmaceutical drug ways to treat acute and chronic illness, with a strong focus on illness prevention and wellbeing optimisation. Like MDs, NDs also operate in clinics and treat patients for acute and chronic illnesses, the distinction is in how they do it and how much time they spend with their patient.
“The patient will never care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
The Medical Doctor
Medical doctors are health care professionals who work in hospitals, specialised medical facilities, or private rooms are known as medical doctors (MDs) or general practitioners (GPs). Medical doctors tend to spend a great deal more time treating the symptoms of acute and chronic diseases. The focus of the medical clinical practice is symptom treatment, and while such treatments are necessary, not much time if any is spent on health and wellness education, nor prevention of any disease. In the various medical centres I’ve worked in, it was clear that treatment focus was on the patient’s prescribed drugs and test results. To diagnose and treat patients, medical physicians conduct diagnostic tests and prescribe pharmaceutical medications using “the book” as their guide. The last book (doctor’s drug guide) I was using in my naturopathic clinic contained over 1,300 drugs. Such guides were necessary before the internet to be able to rapidly look up the patient’s drugs and associated side effects. Diet and nutrition is generally not discussed. A 2018 study mentions that most doctors lack adequate training to give informed diet advice. This is a bit alarming, considering your health is very much dependent on the quality of food you place in your mouth. Can you now understand why integrative medicine is important?
Medical doctors have a strong interest in treating the patient’s symptoms
I have developed friendships with medical doctors from different countries, and still count many as my friends today. Medical doctors always strive to do their best and have at times much stress to deal with. Doctors are frequently constrained due to excessive paperwork, too many clinic hours, health reforms, bureaucratic interference, a stressful public practice, and compromised family life. Many doctors like chemists are suffering from burn-out.
These are some of the reasons I decided not to become a medical practitioner myself. I hold the greatest respect for doctors of evidence based Western medicine, but preferred to qualify and practice as a naturopath, to use a different approach for patient care. Naturopathic appointments are longer (30 up to 90 minutes or more), the patient is able to discuss all of their problems (we take the time to listen to our patient).
Specialist M.D.s
There are many specialised medical practitioners, some of the specialities include for example general practitioners, gynaecology (ladies), dermatology (skin), gastroenterology (gut), paediatric medicine (children), orthopaedics (musculoskeletal), urology (genitourinary) and more. I’ve noticed that due to the high level of medical specialisation, the patient-doctor interaction can have a distinct tendency to be quite brief, shallow, and focused on just one or two symptoms. The patients would often tell me ‘I was in-and-out in less than ten minutes and my insurance company will receive a huge bill”.
What Are Your Qualifications?
I hold a Bachelor Degree of Science majoring in Complementary Health Care, as well as separate diploma and degree qualifications in Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy. Before retirement in 2019, I was the clinical director of a New Zealand naturopathic clinic called The Naturopaths for 23 years, and practiced in Australia for many years before moving to NZ in 1998. When I qualified in the late 80s in Australia, Bachelor degrees were not available in natural medicine. I’ve completed almost ten years of study and have gained more than 30 years of clinical experience in natural and integrative forms of medicine, in addition to having pursued post-graduate study in Australia, America, India and New Zealand. I am past Vice President of the NZ Natural Medicine Association. I’ve written many articles for health magazines (before Google), and published two books online that have gone on to sell thousands of copies, including Candida Crusher and The Psoriasis Program.
From Naturopath To Specialist Dietary Supplement Formulator
In the early 80s, I studied natural medicine principles initially through correspondence and self-directed courses, and then attended herbal manufacturing weekend workshops in 1985. I started to grow many medicinal herbs and began to manufacture herbal medicines and tinctures in the early 1980s before studying natural medicine formally and finally becoming a naturopath in the late 80s. I gradually became a specialist dietary and herbal supplement formulator over a period of many years of clinical practice, study and eventually through research and clinical experience. I studied post-graduate in homeopathy in 1994 in Calcutta, India, where I learned homeopathic compounding.
After moving to New Zealand in 1998, I established a naturopathic clinic and in 1999 started working as a technical manager for a start-up company called FX Med, which has now (22 years later) become New Zealand’s leading wholesale suppliers of practitioner-only ranges of dietary supplements.
Naturopaths Own Formulations
In 2006, I became the technical and clinical services director and founder of another NZ start-up, a nutritional company called Nutrisearch, offering an exclusive range of practitioner-only nutritional supplements. While at Nutrisearch, I developed leading range of products called Naturopaths Own, a small and highly researched supplement range produced to my exacting standards. These several products, including one of New Zealand’s top quality multivitamins, Ultra-Preventative X-NZ. These products have become best-sellers in the AUS/NZ practitioner market industry. In addition, I formulated various liquid herbal medicines for many common conditions, as well as several specialty formulations, including a supplement for patients with hypothyroid conditions.
Professional Ongoing Education
I have attended for many years the latest national and international natural and integrative medicine conferences and health expos in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and in America annually to keep up with the latest science and trends. I like to follow the cutting edge in natural medicine and every year (before Covid-19) attended both Supply Side East (natural medicine manufacturing and raw materials expo)as well as Expo West
In 2013 I created a range of the world’s first broad spectrum anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and anti-bacterial range of dietary supplements called CanXida. My LinkedIn profile explains in more about formulating, and includes many professional testimonials from other health care professionals .
Writer and Natural Health Researcher
I created a website called www.naturopath.co.nz in 2007 as a resource of information for those who are looking for a safer yet effective alternative to conventional medical treatments of any chronic diseases. This website contained several hundred health and wellness articles about different medical conditions and natural medicine treatment recommendations. This site has now become ericbakker.com, where you will many printable recipes, and several printable resources (like shopping lists, home treatments and more), all free of charge from this website. Our website has many thousands of viewers each week, check it out yourself and you will see that I love to research and write on natural health. There are many thousands of hours invested here. I’ve tried to make website navigation easy, but please let me know if it could be improved!
International Lecturer
I’ve lectured regularly to the public as well as to various medical and natural associations such as the Australasian Integrated Medical Association, with my popular seminars series including topics such as “Are You Heart Smart”, “The Art Of Stress Management and Adrenal Fatigue”, and “Detox To Thrive”. In addition, I’ve presented topics natural medicine colleges throughout Australia and NZ, as well as researching and writing for several journals, many websites and health publications.
Are You A Credible Person?
I would like to think so! Our clinic has treated many patients with many different health conditions spanning more than thirty years. I am an experienced clinician, writer and natural health research besides a nutritional and herbal supplement developer. The articles you will find on this website have been written from a clinician’s perspective, you’ll find them different from the average blog site about health and wellness. There are many hints and tips and plenty of scientific references, you won’t find exaggerated claims or wild statements. Just the facts and common sense backed with plenty of scientific evidence.
My role as a technical and clinical services consultant for 25 years to the natural medicine industry has facilitated my evolution and ongoing success in natural medicine. You’ll find more about my technical expertise in my LinkedIn profile. Over the years, I’ve formulated various dietary supplements and speciality natural medicines for our clinic, and various companies, and some of them have even become their best-selling products!
In the past, I researched and lectured on a wide range of health and wellbeing topics in Australia and New Zealand, and regularly delivered training and seminars to alternative and medical health-care professionals, on a variety of topics including Hashimotos thyroiditis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis and more.
On this website, you’ll find many of my articles on health and well-being, including health presentations, recipes, home remedies and plenty of free information on nutrition.
In addition, you can read information regarding the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, cooking fresh foods, food preserving and even beekeeping. These are all important for the health and wellbeing of my family, and I think that given half a chance I’ll be able to convince you to at least attempt to grow one cauliflower!
Why not subscribe and learn a lot of useful information?
Here’s wishing you the very best of health, naturally.
Eric
About Eric Bakker Naturopath
As a professionally registered and qualified naturopath, I have always believed in integrative medicine, a healthcare paradigm that emphasises customised personal patient care. It integrates evidence-based traditional and complementary treatments in conjunction with the finest of modern evidence-based western medical methods.
I have always practiced in conjunction with medical doctors and in the past worked in medical clinics in Australia and New Zealand. Before retirement in 2019, patients with chronic and complex disease would travel far and wide to receive treatment recommendations at our clinic in a small village called Havelock North in the North Island, New Zealand. Patients would catch-up for regular monthly consultations on the telephone, FaceTime, Skype and eventually Zoom. I’ve worked with a wide of variety of diets and lifestyles, as well as natural medicines, and developed the most clinically effective programmes based on my own clinical experiences. I enjoyed clinical naturopathic practice for over 30 years, and since retirement have focused my attention to online natural health and wellbeing education. I’m not a medical doctor, but a naturopath, in New Zealand and Australia only Chiropractors are considered “doctors of natural medicine”. Before discussing my qualifications and what I’ve done in the past, let’s look at the fundamental difference between a naturopath and a medical doctor.
The Naturopath
Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are professionally registered, licensed and qualified in the same fundamental health and biological sciences as Medical Doctors (MDs). In both MD and ND programme, the first two years of medical school are devoted to biological science, clinical sciences, and diagnostics. Naturopaths and medical doctors study almost similar fundamental and core clinical sciences, including anatomy and physiology, pathology, biochemistry, clinical physical diagnosis, genetics, pharmacology, microbiology, and other areas covered in the many hours of training for both NDs and MDs. Introduction to naturopathic modalities such as homoeopathy, nutrition, diet and nutrition, biochemistry, and plant therapy are also included in the early years of naturopathic medical school.
During the first two years of study, naturopaths establish a more complete understanding of health and illness based on Western medical disciplines. They may use this information to improve abilities in diagnosis, illness prevention, and wellness enhancement. A naturopathic education must include clinical experience to patient care, they can spend 1500 hours or more in a clinical internship working with patients as part of completing their education. I completed three separate clinical internships, for homeopathy, herbal medicine and naturopathy.
Naturopaths have a strong interest in the patient’s nutrition, diet and lifestyle
In various respects, naturopathic medical programmes differ from standard medical schools throughout the third and fourth years of study. Non-pharmaceutical/non-surgical techniques to addressing patient diseases, including as lifestyle counselling, clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, and other health promotion therapies, take up a large portion of ND curriculum. Most naturopaths have a strong interest in diet, nutrition and wellbeing, long before they studied.
Naturopathic medicine students, like MD students, learn to treat all elements of family health and wellbeing, but in addition learn and research holistic and non-pharmaceutical drug ways to treat acute and chronic illness, with a strong focus on illness prevention and wellbeing optimisation. Like MDs, NDs also operate in clinics and treat patients for acute and chronic illnesses, the distinction is in how they do it and how much time they spend with their patient.
“The patient will never care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
The Medical Doctor
Medical doctors are health care professionals who work in hospitals, specialised medical facilities, or private rooms are known as medical doctors (MDs) or general practitioners (GPs). Medical doctors tend to spend a great deal more time treating the symptoms of acute and chronic diseases. The focus of the medical clinical practice is symptom treatment, and while such treatments are necessary, not much time if any is spent on health and wellness education, nor prevention of any disease. In the various medical centres I’ve worked in, it was clear that treatment focus was on the patient’s prescribed drugs and test results. To diagnose and treat patients, medical physicians conduct diagnostic tests and prescribe pharmaceutical medications using “the book” as their guide. The last book (doctor’s drug guide) I was using in my naturopathic clinic contained over 1,300 drugs. Such guides were necessary before the internet to be able to rapidly look up the patient’s drugs and associated side effects. Diet and nutrition is generally not discussed. A 2018 study mentions that most doctors lack adequate training to give informed diet advice. This is a bit alarming, considering your health is very much dependent on the quality of food you place in your mouth. Can you now understand why integrative medicine is important?
Medical doctors have a strong interest in treating the patient’s symptoms
I have developed friendships with medical doctors from different countries, and still count many as my friends today. Medical doctors always strive to do their best and have at times much stress to deal with. Doctors are frequently constrained due to excessive paperwork, too many clinic hours, health reforms, bureaucratic interference, a stressful public practice, and compromised family life. Many doctors like chemists are suffering from burn-out.
These are some of the reasons I decided not to become a medical practitioner myself. I hold the greatest respect for doctors of evidence based Western medicine, but preferred to qualify and practice as a naturopath, to use a different approach for patient care. Naturopathic appointments are longer (30 up to 90 minutes or more), the patient is able to discuss all of their problems (we take the time to listen to our patient).
Specialist M.D.s
There are many specialised medical practitioners, some of the specialities include for example general practitioners, gynaecology (ladies), dermatology (skin), gastroenterology (gut), paediatric medicine (children), orthopaedics (musculoskeletal), urology (genitourinary) and more. I’ve noticed that due to the high level of medical specialisation, the patient-doctor interaction can have a distinct tendency to be quite brief, shallow, and focused on just one or two symptoms. The patients would often tell me ‘I was in-and-out in less than ten minutes and my insurance company will receive a huge bill”.
What Are Your Qualifications?
I hold a Bachelor Degree of Science majoring in Complementary Health Care, as well as separate diploma and degree qualifications in Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy. Before retirement in 2019, I was the clinical director of a New Zealand naturopathic clinic called The Naturopaths for 23 years, and practiced in Australia for many years before moving to NZ in 1998. When I qualified in the late 80s in Australia, Bachelor degrees were not available in natural medicine. I’ve completed almost ten years of study and have gained more than 30 years of clinical experience in natural and integrative forms of medicine, in addition to having pursued post-graduate study in Australia, America, India and New Zealand. I am past Vice President of the NZ Natural Medicine Association. I’ve written many articles for health magazines (before Google), and published two books online that have gone on to sell thousands of copies, including Candida Crusher and The Psoriasis Program.
From Naturopath To Specialist Dietary Supplement Formulator
In the early 80s, I studied natural medicine principles initially through correspondence and self-directed courses, and then attended herbal manufacturing weekend workshops in 1985. I started to grow many medicinal herbs and began to manufacture herbal medicines and tinctures in the early 1980s before studying natural medicine formally and finally becoming a naturopath in the late 80s. I gradually became a specialist dietary and herbal supplement formulator over a period of many years of clinical practice, study and eventually through research and clinical experience. I studied post-graduate in homeopathy in 1994 in Calcutta, India, where I learned homeopathic compounding.
After moving to New Zealand in 1998, I established a naturopathic clinic and in 1999 started working as a technical manager for a start-up company called FX Med, which has now (22 years later) become New Zealand’s leading wholesale suppliers of practitioner-only ranges of dietary supplements.
Naturopaths Own Formulations
In 2006, I became the technical and clinical services director and founder of another NZ start-up, a nutritional company called Nutrisearch, offering an exclusive range of practitioner-only nutritional supplements. While at Nutrisearch, I developed leading range of products called Naturopaths Own, a small and highly researched supplement range produced to my exacting standards. These several products, including one of New Zealand’s top quality multivitamins, Ultra-Preventative X-NZ. These products have become best-sellers in the AUS/NZ practitioner market industry. In addition, I formulated various liquid herbal medicines for many common conditions, as well as several specialty formulations, including a supplement for patients with hypothyroid conditions.
Professional Ongoing Education
I have attended for many years the latest national and international natural and integrative medicine conferences and health expos in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and in America annually to keep up with the latest science and trends. I like to follow the cutting edge in natural medicine and every year (before Covid-19) attended both Supply Side East (natural medicine manufacturing and raw materials expo)as well as Expo West
In 2013 I created a range of the world’s first broad spectrum anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and anti-bacterial range of dietary supplements called CanXida. My LinkedIn profile explains in more about formulating, and includes many professional testimonials from other health care professionals .
Writer and Natural Health Researcher
I created a website called www.naturopath.co.nz in 2007 as a resource of information for those who are looking for a safer yet effective alternative to conventional medical treatments of any chronic diseases. This website contained several hundred health and wellness articles about different medical conditions and natural medicine treatment recommendations. This site has now become ericbakker.com, where you will many printable recipes, and several printable resources (like shopping lists, home treatments and more), all free of charge from this website. Our website has many thousands of viewers each week, check it out yourself and you will see that I love to research and write on natural health. There are many thousands of hours invested here. I’ve tried to make website navigation easy, but please let me know if it could be improved!
International Lecturer
I’ve lectured regularly to the public as well as to various medical and natural associations such as the Australasian Integrated Medical Association, with my popular seminars series including topics such as “Are You Heart Smart”, “The Art Of Stress Management and Adrenal Fatigue”, and “Detox To Thrive”. In addition, I’ve presented topics natural medicine colleges throughout Australia and NZ, as well as researching and writing for several journals, many websites and health publications.
Are You A Credible Person?
I would like to think so! Our clinic has treated many patients with many different health conditions spanning more than thirty years. I am an experienced clinician, writer and natural health research besides a nutritional and herbal supplement developer. The articles you will find on this website have been written from a clinician’s perspective, you’ll find them different from the average blog site about health and wellness. There are many hints and tips and plenty of scientific references, you won’t find exaggerated claims or wild statements. Just the facts and common sense backed with plenty of scientific evidence.
My role as a technical and clinical services consultant for 25 years to the natural medicine industry has facilitated my evolution and ongoing success in natural medicine. You’ll find more about my technical expertise in my LinkedIn profile. Over the years, I’ve formulated various dietary supplements and speciality natural medicines for our clinic, and various companies, and some of them have even become their best-selling products!
In the past, I researched and lectured on a wide range of health and wellbeing topics in Australia and New Zealand, and regularly delivered training and seminars to alternative and medical health-care professionals, on a variety of topics including Hashimotos thyroiditis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis and more.
On this website, you’ll find many of my articles on health and well-being, including health presentations, recipes, home remedies and plenty of free information on nutrition.
In addition, you can read information regarding the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, cooking fresh foods, food preserving and even beekeeping. These are all important for the health and wellbeing of my family, and I think that given half a chance I’ll be able to convince you to at least attempt to grow one cauliflower!
Why not subscribe and learn a lot of useful information?
Here’s wishing you the very best of health, naturally.
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As a professionally registered and qualified naturopath, I have always believed in integrative medicine, a healthcare paradigm that emphasises customised personal patient care. It integrates evidence-based traditional and complementary treatments in conjunction with the finest of modern evidence-based western medical methods.
Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are professionally registered, licensed and qualified in the same fundamental health and biological sciences as Medical Doctors (MDs). In both MD and ND programme, the first two years of medical school are devoted to biological science, clinical sciences, and diagnostics. Naturopaths and medical doctors study almost similar fundamental and core clinical sciences, including anatomy and physiology, pathology, biochemistry, clinical physical diagnosis, genetics, pharmacology, microbiology, and other areas covered in the many hours of training for both NDs and MDs. Introduction to naturopathic modalities such as homoeopathy, nutrition, diet and nutrition, biochemistry, and plant therapy are also included in the early years of naturopathic medical school.
Medical doctors are health care professionals who work in hospitals, specialised medical facilities, or private rooms are known as medical doctors (MDs) or general practitioners (GPs). Medical doctors tend to spend a great deal more time treating the symptoms of acute and chronic diseases. The focus of the medical clinical practice is symptom treatment, and while such treatments are necessary, not much time if any is spent on health and wellness education, nor prevention of any disease. In the various medical centres I’ve worked in, it was clear that treatment focus was on the patient’s prescribed drugs and test results. To diagnose and treat patients, medical physicians conduct diagnostic tests and prescribe pharmaceutical medications using “the book” as their guide. The last book (doctor’s drug guide) I was using in my naturopathic clinic contained over 1,300 drugs. Such guides were necessary before the internet to be able to rapidly look up the patient’s drugs and associated side effects. Diet and nutrition is generally not discussed. A 
There are many specialised medical practitioners, some of the specialities include for example general practitioners, gynaecology (ladies), dermatology (skin), gastroenterology (gut), paediatric medicine (children), orthopaedics (musculoskeletal), urology (genitourinary) and more. I’ve noticed that due to the high level of medical specialisation, the patient-doctor interaction can have a distinct tendency to be quite brief, shallow, and focused on just one or two symptoms. The patients would often tell me ‘I was in-and-out in less than ten minutes and my insurance company will receive a huge bill”.
I hold a Bachelor Degree of Science majoring in Complementary Health Care, as well as separate diploma and degree qualifications in Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy. Before retirement in 2019, I was the clinical director of a New Zealand naturopathic clinic called The Naturopaths for 23 years, and practiced in Australia for many years before moving to NZ in 1998. When I qualified in the late 80s in Australia, Bachelor degrees were not available in natural medicine. I’ve completed almost ten years of study and have gained more than 30 years of clinical experience in natural and integrative forms of medicine, in addition to having pursued post-graduate study in Australia, America, India and New Zealand. I am past Vice President of the NZ Natural Medicine Association. I’ve written many articles for health magazines (before Google), and published two books online that have gone on to sell thousands of copies, including Candida Crusher and The Psoriasis Program.
In addition, you can read information regarding the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, cooking fresh foods, food preserving and even beekeeping. These are all important for the health and wellbeing of my family, and I think that given half a chance I’ll be able to convince you to at least attempt to grow one cauliflower!
