AANP Submission 2009

Name: Iva Lloyd, ND

Full Name and Designations: Dr. Iva Lloyd, BScH, RPP, RPE, ND
Address: 53 Snapdragon Dr. Toronto, Ontario M2J 4X5
Telephone (day): 905-940-2727
Fax number: 905-940-2721
Email: i.lloyd@naturopathicfoundations.ca

Abstract: submitted for 90 minute oral presentation

Title: Identifying the Root Cause of Disease

Short Description: Root causes of disease are multi-factorial and include misalignment to one’s core
beliefs, lifestyle, environment and social and external factors. This seminar addresses how to link the
characteristics and patterns of the causal factors to a patient’s signs and symptoms in order to assist
practitioners in identifying the root causes of disease.

Learning Objectives:
1. Review the logic of signs and symptoms and how they provide a guide to identifying the root
causes of disease.
2. Discussion of the interrelationship of the psychological, functional and structural aspects of the
body.
3. A look at how Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine use energetic patterns (5 elements and Yin Yang)
to describe how symptoms mirror the root cause.
4. Review of the root causes of symptoms and diseases – recognizing that a root cause is never
another symptom. Root causes include alignment with one’s core beliefs, lifestyle, environment,
social and external factors.
5. Exploring the difference between medical diagnosis and naturopathic diagnosis and the need for
the diagnosis to relate back to the root causes of disease
6. Discussion of the importance of identifying and treating the root cause of disease.

Presentation Outline: powerpoint presentation, interactive discussion, question and answers, review of
cases to illustrate points

Pharmacy discussion: no

Target audience: naturopathic doctors with experience in practice

Biographical outline:
Iva Lloyd is a Naturopathic Doctor and Registered Polarity Practitioner. In
2002 she founded Naturopathic Foundations, an integrated clinic with 4
naturopathic doctors and other alternative health care providers that blend
the naturopathic and energetic aspects of health care.

Dr. Lloyd teaches part-time at the Canadian College of Naturopathic

Medicine. She is the author of three books: Building a Successful
Naturopathic Practice, Messages from the Body, a guide to the Energetics of
health, and The Energetics of Health, a naturopathic assessment. Dr. Lloyd
writes for various journals and magazines and gives seminars on the
naturopathic medicine, assessing the root cause of disease, the role of the
mind in healing and the building blocks to health. She currently is Past-Chair
of the board for the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors.