Student Spotlight
Dave Foreman, Candidate: N.D. for Healthcare Professionals
Fifteen years ago, Dave Foreman earned a traditional university degree and ultimately became a licensed pharmacist. He owned a compounding apothecary for nine years, selling what one customer called “weeds in capsule form.” As he gradually added more and more single-herb supplements and homeopathic formulas at his store, The Medicine Shoppe, Foreman constantly looked for research statistics involving natural healing.
These days his website – www.herbalpharmacist.com – quotes plenty of research, including approximately 40 archived newswire stories, as well as recent segments of his weekly radio show, “The Herbal Pharmacist,” which now airs in 46 markets. Over the years he has evolved into a public speaker and media spokesperson whose syndicated natural health programming reaches a national audience of almost one million.
Foreman seeks to make his messages memorable by offering simple steps to natural wellness. “The four pillars of health,” he says, “are diet, exercise, spirituality and supplements. Even if you are doing three of these four and doing them well, you still are not approaching optimal health.”
Now more than ever before, Foreman’s internal antenna continually looks and listens for natural health research studies that bring scientific validity to his common-sensical folk wisdom: for his radio audience, for a national schedule of speaking engagements, and for his own family’s health. His first book, Prescriptions from Nature, is a quick reference guide that addresses women’s health issues. Foreman also appears on a twice-monthly natural health TV segment at his local Tampa/Largo/St. Petersburg NBC affiliate, and calls his outreach a unique blend of science and nature.
Since laughing helps people remember new information, Foreman often draws on the youthful wisdom of two real-live sources of humor. “I give anecdotes and tell stories about my two children, who are really growing up natural.”
Here are a couple of his favorite stories:
- When his wife recently developed a case of the sniffles, their preschool-age daughter advised her mommy to “Go see daddy and get some herbs.”
- His wife once suffered from migraine headaches and has used herbal products to completely eliminate the migraines. On a recent shopping trip, their younger child observed a scowling woman and whispered, “She has a mean face on.” When Christine commented that maybe the lady had a headache, little Amanda said that the woman should go find an “herbal farmist.”
Dave Foreman uses no drugs, only herbs, for his own health maintenance. He adds that their three-year-old and seven-year-old never have had antibiotics. The family consciously chooses organic products whenever possible, and the children are happy to crunch on raw vegetables rather than fattening potato chips, and fresh-caught fish from their coastal neighborhood rather than greasy burgers.
Having recently completed Clayton College’s Natural Wellness Certificate, Foreman the N.D. candidate admits that he, personally, is less interested in having another professional credential and more interested in validating his self-gained herbal knowledge with a rigorous graduate degree program. He is proud to recommend CCNH to colleagues. “I know that this is the right path for me,” he says. “As a media spokesperson for natural health, it is gratifying to think that I can touch so many lives and help people to stay healthier by adopting a natural lifestyle.”
For more information on where Dave Foreman is speaking this month, and his radio show, “The Herbal Pharmacist:” www.herbalpharmacist.com
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