About Daniel Yee
Like many healthcare practitioners and healers, I have been through my own various health problems. It was integrative medicine that gave me the health answers I had been looking for.
I grew up in a tumultuous household, where stress and poor nutrition were major factors in my health. I grew up with many digestive issues – which I learned later on in life were a result of food sensitivities and stress (stress has a major role in our digestive health!).
This didn’t really hit home for me until I started training martial arts in my early 20s – I was a patient of an integrative physician and learned how much what I put in my body affects my health. I was also introduced to dietary supplementation and how taking some simple supplements could change my performance and how I felt.
It wasn’t until I attended Naturopathic Medical school that I really learned about the impact of stress. For some insight about the time demands of ND medical school – we take 8 classes a semester (8 full credit hour equivalents of university classes), with 3 semesters a year. That is approximately equivalent to 2 full years of university classes compressed into 1 year (24 class credits – usually students take 5-6 classes a semester, 2 full semesters). Classes included biomedical classes that were modeled after UBC medical school (physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, biochemistry, physical exam, etc), as well as studying Chinese Medicine, Herbal medicine, physical medicine, homeopathy and nutrition.
