<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Thought this might be interesting to some people on the list. Yesterday I called a naturalist doctor in my local area. She explained to me that their focus was on preventative medicine and they send their blood tests to Great Smokies Lab. The first thing they have you do is take a one hour and a half nutrition course, explaining how the body processes food(kidneys, liiver etc.) and good nutrition practices. This is followed by a one and a half hour visit to the naturalist where they ask very personal questions and study the person themselves, after which they may prescribe vitamins supplements or herbs or both. She explained this may or may not be paid for by insurance. It is $30. for the nutrition course and $125.00 for the initial visit. She said she has no celiac patients but seemed knowledgeable about celiac disease. Also she stated that celiac disease is caused by a missing enzyme where gluten enteropothy is more of an allergy to all grains, implying that celiac disease cannot be cured but gluten enteropothy can. Thinking it over this sounds like a good kind of doctor for celiacs depending of course on what other problems a person might have. I am not promoting this kind of care, I just wondered if other people on the list have found naturalists useful. What do you all think of this? I certainly think the course on nutrition would be excellent. Doctors cannot help us with nutrition as they dont have the training. Janet in Maine