Most of our patients come to us looking for something more than a quick prescription or a 10‑minute office visit.
At Charm City Natural Health, our goal isn’t just to get you feeling “okay.” It’s to help you live the life you want and restore the vitality you deserve.
Our initial visits are 75–90 minutes, allowing us to take the time to understand your full story.
Instead of just masking symptoms, we investigate what’s driving them.
Evidence‑informed therapies like nutrition, herbs, supplements, homeopathy, and lifestyle guidance.
Our treatments work alongside those from your other providers to ensure safe, complementary care.
Every plan is tailored to your history, goals, and life circumstances.
Naturopathic doctors are guided by six core principles that shape patient care:
Choose the safest, least invasive options.
Dig deeper than symptoms.
Identify and remove obstacles to recovery and facilitate inherent self-healing processes.
Physical, mental, emotional, and environmental health.
Prioritize long‑term wellness, not just short‑term relief.
Empower patients with knowledge so they can take charge of their health.
Some treatments may be as simple as restoring vitamin and mineral levels, while others involve careful functional testing, digestive repair, or long‑term chronic disease management. In all cases, we emphasize safe, evidence‑informed, and sustainable care.
Every treatment plan is individualized, and complements conventional therapies, but our most common therapeutic tools include:
Our diagnostic tools include ordering labs, imaging, and performing physical examination. NDs refer to other health care providers and medical specialists when needed.
Our naturopathic doctors maintain broad, general practices, but there are some areas we see most often:
Naturopathic doctors attend four‑year, graduate‑level medical programs at accredited schools in the U.S. or Canada. The curriculum includes:
To become licensed, graduates must pass two rounds of national board exams (NPLEX exams, the ND equivalent of the USMLE for MDs/DOs).
In Maryland, licensure for naturopathic doctors began in 2016. Drs. Paddock and Runde were both instrumental in achieving this legislation and were among the first NDs licensed in the state.
We value collaboration and communication. Referring clinicians can expect that our naturopathic doctors will:
Our role isn’t to replace conventional medicine, but to complement and enhance it, especially in areas such as lifestyle change, managing side effects, or supporting patients who haven’t progressed with standard care.
