Teaching health from a different perspective
Priscilla Natanson, ND
Making physiology understandable is the key.
When you think about it in terms of what the body might be trying to accomplish, the body​'s actions and reactions often make more sense.
Priscilla Natanson graduated with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in 2001 and went on to establish her private practice in downtown Seattle.
Dr. Natanson spent twenty years as a primary care physician specializing in patients with autoimmune and other chronic diseases, and was selected as one of Seattle's Top Doctors in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine in both 2011 and 2012.
Now retired from practice, Dr. Natanson has transitioned to teaching the most useful thing she found in all her years of practice - showing people how to use their anatomy and physiology as a guidance system to improve their health.
How it all began
Life was pretty normal for Priscilla's early years in the Midwest. The thorns on the roses and the yappy little dog she played with while visiting her grandmother, were the wildest flora and fauna in young Priscilla's life.
That all changed in the summer of 1975 when the family's adventurous father piled them all into their wood panel station wagon and they made the long drive North to Fairbanks, Alaska.
A radical transplantation
Fairbanks in the Autumn of '75 was a boomtown as men arrived from all over to work on the new oil pipeline, and housing of any kind was becoming rapidly scarce. Priscilla's father managed to secure one of the few remaining apartments still open before winter set in. That winter was the Kansas family's first (but not their last) experience of temperatures below -50°F.
Not to be dissuaded from their Alaskan adventure by a little cold weather, the following spring found Priscilla's family on the Yukon River on what was to become a two month canoe trip and the start of their years in the Alaskan Bush.​​​​​
The Foundation of a Philosophy
Cabin life is all about optimizing - heat, water, food, space... everything. If an item can serve multiple purposes, that is always the goal. If it can be built from something you already have, even better. Practicality is everything.
This ability to optimize and find the practical common threads was the guiding theme of Priscilla's two decades of work as a primary care physician focused on patients with chronic disease.
About Me
Unlike my fellow Northwesterners that spend every weekend hiking and camping in our beautiful mountains and woods, weekends are much more likely to find me curled up at home with a book, hanging out with my family and friends, or listening to standup comedy while I work on some new project in the yard.
Me with one of my favorite books from elementary school, about the famous Judge Ooka Tadasuke in early 1700's Japan, at the site of his Tokyo (Edo) office. A true highlight of my bookworm adventures!