TOM BALLARD ARTS
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
My background as a registered nurse and naturopathic doctor includes extensive experience in emergency and chronic medicine at major institutions like the University of Chicago and Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, as well as four decades in private practice focusing on whole-system medicine. Since 2010, I have explored genetic medicine’s role in patient care and converted this knowledge into natural therapies that support healthy genetic expression. After having worked in hospitals, it was rewarding to see patients experience the benefits of whole-system, genetic-led medicine—avoiding diabetic foot amputations and bowel surgeries, discontinuing allergy medication, reducing blood pressure, and dissolving depression, to name a few.
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My writing experience includes regular columns for Puget Consumers magazine as well as articles and letters in The Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Health Store News, Seattle PI, Health Issues Quarterly, ND Digest, Naturopathic News and Review, Seattle Times, Common Ground and Well Being Journal.
Free Articles Online
My articles on health, medicine, and the benefits of genetics, nutrition, detoxification, and activity can be read on my Aha! Vital Morsels Substack and on Medium.
Books
Genetic Wellness (on submission)
Genetic Wellness: The D.N.A. Life Plan for Overcoming Chronic Disease encourages readers to rethink their relationship with healthcare by revealing that chronic diseases are often preventable and treatable in sustainable, non-invasive ways based on a deeper understanding of one’s genetic profile.
Drawing on over fifty years of medical experience, I offer readers an actionable path to health through personalized genetic insights and lifestyle therapies that are often simple, inexpensive, and without the side effects of drugs or surgery. I have seen this combination of genetic testing and lifestyle therapy cause vast improvements in my medical practice, and based on the experiences of my patients, this book will have wide and urgent appeal.
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The D.N.A. Life Plan emphasizes Detoxification, Nutrition, and Activity as whole-system therapies. Furthermore, D.N.A is tailored to your DNA. Genetic testing services now make it possible to learn about your genes and improve your health though personalized approaches that are sensitive to your unique needs.
To stay updated on Genetic Wellness’s progress toward publication, you can join my newsletter on Substack.
Videos
My Tom Ballard, ND YouTube channel is for expanding awareness of natural medicine or what I call Green Medicine: Ecological, sustainable, organic and effective treatment of disease by addressing the cause.