Dr. Tammy Grime, BSc. (Hons) ND, Clinic Director

Tammy completed her premedical training with honours at the University of Guelph in Biomedical science and completed her medical education at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM), totalling 9 years of post secondary education. Naturopathic medical education is a four year post-graduate degree, that mirrors all medical programs in the core medical sciences (anatomy, physiology, pathology, immunology, pharmacology, diagnosis, lab etc).  She continues to advance her training yearly and has studied many medical topics and techniques beyond her core education.

Dr. Grime has completed advanced studies in Environmental Medicine – the study of environmental chemicals in the etiology of diseases such as autoimmune conditions, cancers, neurological conditions, chronic fatigue and chemical sensitivity – and how to detoxify the body properly to effectively treat such conditions.

She is certified in Intravenous Nutrient Therapy providing significant and fast results for many conditions and has done advanced training in integrative oncology.

Dr. Grime has passed the Ontario Drug Prescribing Exam. This is an extremely rigorous government provincial exam on proper drug prescribing for the pharmacological management of disease. In BC, this exam allows ND’s to have full drug prescribing authority, similar to a family physician, in accordance to ND education and medical scope of practice.  In Ontario, the political process has chosen to take a slower approach to granting ND’s their full scope of practice in accordance with their level of education. Current drug access is limited to bio-identical hormones and emergency medications, with medications being added to their scope annually over time.

Dr. Grime has also done additional training in Gestalt Psychotherapy and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), to help her patients quickly resolve emotional factors that contribute to stress and health issues.

Other Certifications

IV Ozone Therapy

Prolozone

Meso Therapy

Mistletoe Therapy

Port a Cath and PICC Line Access

Hormone Therapy Prescribing

Cupping

Low Dose Immunotherapy

Live Blood Analysis

Many extra courses in various IV therapies

Wilson’s Temperature syndrome

Biological Medicine

and much more.

About Dr. Grime

My passion is for reducing the suffering of others in any way that I can. My passion is connecting with others in a way that is true and genuine. This is what gives me meaning and purpose. Being “of service” is important to me. Biology, physiology and psychology are endlessly interesting to me. Understanding what life is, how living things work, and what healing is, is what I am most interested in. I am always learning; the learning will never stop. This is important to me as well and defines for me, a life well lived.

I feel blessed to play such a privileged roll to my patients; to know truly who they are and to help people heal and overcome. To you to live your life, reach your potential, and so that you can affect the world with the fullness of your individual gifts. This can only happen without obstructive health issues - in mind and body.

This profession is not an easy one. It comes at great sacrifice to those that choose this particular path of service to others. Though the study of Naturopathic medicine is as academically gruelling, as expensive, and requires endless learning, endless hoops to jump through and obstacles to overcome, practicing conventional medicine comes with acceptance, power, financial reward, academic respect, and many, many open doors. But, it also comes with restricted connection to others, and little ability to help heal the root causes of chronic disease. There is very little study of this. More and more I am seeing GP’s and specialists in weekend workshops and continuing education classess in functional medicine who feel the same.

Our health care system is incredibly limited to what it can provide our population. For chronic disease, It provides disease management with medication and very limited solutions. It does not provide care to actually get people healthier. Much more is needed, much more is possible. The rates of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, and dementias are sky rocketing. There is simply much more that is needed in health care beyond medicated symptom management. We have to prevent people from developing these conditions and we need to help people resolve them or lower the severity of symptoms. Much of chronic disease can be prevented or healed using strategies that work with the body to regulate, normalize and “clean up” toxic, deficient and stressed out systems.

I am impossibly idealistic. I chose a harder, less sexy path. I chose to roll up my sleeves, get into trench and help you navigate your way out, because this has far more meaning to me. I value this more than society’s current uneducated valuation of the two professions. To be clear, we absolutely need both kinds of medicine of course. It’s just that for me personally, naturopathic medicine is a more rewarding and interesting vocation.

I look forward to meeting you.