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About Shauna K. Young, CTN, Ph.D., CBT, OSJ
Dr. Shauna Young is the owner and Medical Director of the Assertive Wellness Research Center of Durango, Colorado, which first opened its doors in 2001. Since its humble beginnings, her center has now to date had the distinct pleasure of seeing thousands of clients who have had the confidence to travel from nearly every U.S. State and even several foreign countries based almost exclusively on referrals from other practitioners and from other clients who have been pleased with the consultation, products and help.
Shauna completed her initial education and obtained her degree as a Naturopath under a regimented correspondence curriculum through the Herbal Healer Academy, a school duly certified by the American Naturopathic Medical Association. Since 2001, she has been practicing as a Traditional Naturopath within the disciplines of her continuing certifications with both the Natural Therapies Certification Board (NTCB) and the American Naturopathic Certification Board (ANCB).
In 2005, after four years of clinical observations and experience, Shauna began specific research regarding her theorized negative effects of excess and stored manganese on the human neurological and sensory input systems and its possible symptomatic connections to Autism and other neurological, learning and behavioral disorders in both children and adults. The unique success of this clinical research, originally referred to as “The Popeye Protocol” and currently as the “Spectrum BalanceTM Protocol”, led to her receiving speaking engagements and Distinguished Awards of Excellence in both May of 2006 and May of 2007 from the internationally-recognized Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine.
Shauna now holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural Sciences and based on the merits of her research, theories and doctoral thesis on Manganism as it relates to Autism, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Natural Sciences from the University of Natural Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In February of 2008 she was also Knighted (OSJ) into the international Sovereign Medical Order of the Knights Hospitaller in recognition of the unique impact of her work with Autism and for positively advancing the field of natural medicine in general. The mission of the Knights Hospitaller is to promote higher levels of international health and to establish, equip, staff and maintain humanitarian and medical treatment centers worldwide.
Shauna has been appointed to a position on the faculty of the University of Natural Medicine in Santa Fe, NM and she also serves as the Chief Medical Advisor for the NoHarm Foundation (www.noharmfoundation.org), a Colorado not-for-profit organization formed with the primary goal of releasing this vastly important information with the intent of ushering in a new paradigm in research and provide real help for countless suffering children and adults. Her work is expected to serve as a lighting rod issue to create permanent positive change in how the role and importance of natural medicine is perceived by the public and peer medical communities.
Shauna maintains additional professional memberships and affiliations with the American Association of Nutritional Consultants and the Coalition for Natural Health, and is a member and serves as Chairperson of the Legislative & Legal Fund of the Colorado Naturopathic Medical Association. She has been an international lecturer on natural medicine, the Spectrum Balance™ Protocol, Autism Spectrum Disorders and many other health related topics for several years, and is the author of her first book currently available in audio book format, “If Naturopaths Are Quacks, Then I Guess I’m a Duck”, a both realistic and humorous look at life as a Naturopath practicing in the United States today.
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