Dr. Laura Futterman is a graduate of the world-famous National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, the oldest and most prestigious Naturopathic Medical School in the nation. After graduation, Dr. Futterman was selected from among many candidates for a one-year teaching residency at National College. She helped supervise student doctors at 8 different clinics – all of them integrating natural and conventional medicine - including a low-cost community clinic for homeless youth; an alcohol and drug addiction and rehabilitation clinic; as well as a conventional naturopathic medical clinic that served families, women and children, and the full range of general and family practice and natural internal medicine. During this time, she worked with literally thousands of patients, bringing them the best of both naturopathic and conventional medicine. Dr. Futterman continues to be interested in the full spectrum of natural medicine, and reads extensively on health and healing.
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Dr. Futterman received her B. Sc.from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she majored in Biological Sciences and Pre-Med. While a full-time student, she was medical receptionist and Chiropractic Assistant at the Center for Integrative Medicine, which is affiliated with Northwestern University. It was here that her passion and interest in Naturopathic medicine flourished.

Dr. Futterman’s interest in natural medicine came about as a result of her own struggles with health and pain, and the seeming inability of conventional medicine to help her. Dr. Futterman suffered from chronic knee pain, resulting from an injury, from the time she was a young girl. After ten years of prescription pain medication, physical therapy, and surgery on both knees, she was still in chronic pain. It was at this point that she decided to pursue a different path, visiting both a Naturopathic Doctor and a Chiropractor. By following a program of natural medicine that included diet changes as well as a wide range of other natural therapies, she finally began to experience relief for the first time since she was a child. Currently, she has been pain-free for 8 years and has returned to a full exercise regime.

These experiences opened her eyes to what Natural Medicine can do, and that there are ways to treat disease, and to get relief from suffering, that are ignored by the world of conventional medicine. Since that time, she has had wonderful success helping her family and her two pet cats, as well as her patients, using Naturopathic Medicine.

Dr. Futterman is an eclectic naturopathic physician, meaning she uses a variety of natural methods, custom prescribed to fit the needs of each patient. These healing modalities include dietary and nutritional counseling; herbal medicines both ancient and modern; homeopathic remedies; flower essences, which are used to bring about emotional healing to help the body heal itself; and physical medicine, an oft-ignored component of naturopathy that recognizes that deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy and spinal adjustments can help not only structural and pain-related complaints, but can help the body heal and recover from all manner of diseases and illnesses.

Dr. Futterman has found that a wide range of chronic diseases respond to Naturopathic Medicine, including Diabetes, Allergies and Asthma, Chronic Pain, Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Depression, Insomnia, Chronic Fatigue, Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), digestive complaints such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, “gas and bloating”, Constipation, High Blood Pressure and Thyroid Disorders - to name a Just a few! Her philosophy is to always try to find the underlying cause of your illness; to educate and counsel patients so that you will be able to take an active and informed role in your own care; and to tailor her treatments to your unique needs and situation.

Dr. Futterman is a native of Chicago, and returns there frequently to visit friends and family. She enjoys spending time with her husband; with friends and family; with her two cats; and loves the outdoors.
 

Dr. Daniel Heller is a 1995 graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. After naturopathic medical school, he practiced for a year in Santa Cruz County, California, before moving to Fairfield County. Dr. Heller has practiced in Lower Fairfield County since 1997, in Stamford, Norwalk, and Stratford. Since 1999, he has practiced in Stamford.

Dr. Heller studied acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and Chinese medical philosophy at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City; in 2002, Dr. Heller traveled to Moscow and became the first physician in the U.S. to train in the Buteyko Method at the famous Buteyko Clinic; in 2005, Dr. Heller was the only naturopathic physician in the country, and one of only three physicians from Connecticut, to attend the prestigious 3rd World Congress on Insulin Resistance, in San Francisco. You can click here to learn about insulin resistance. Dr. Heller has been practicing  Amino Acid - Neurotransmitter Optimization therapy according to the principles elaborated by Martin Hinz, MD of Minnesota for the past year and a half. Dr. Heller is one of the only physicians in the Tri-State area to work extensively with Dr. Hinz's protocol, and to complete clinical education with the Neuroresearch Group. Dr Heller regularly attends seminars and continuing education related to naturopathic medicine and nutritional medicine.

Dr. Heller is dedicated to combining the principle of natural health - that is, that health is your body and mind's normal physiological state - with scientific innovation. At the same time, Dr. Heller eschews fads and superstitions in natural medicine, and strives to separate the wheat from the chaff, delivering the very best to his patients, but saving on unnecessary expenses and on unnecessarily restrictive health regimes. At the same time, he is uncompromising about the necessity to adhere to naturopathic principles in order to achieve optimum health.

Dr. Heller lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two Portuguese Water Dogs.

Dr. Heller maintains the 80 gallon African Cichlid Aquarium in the office (it is stocked with Male Peacock Cichlids from Lake Malawi .) He has a 125 gallon aquarium in his home, stocked with Male Peacock and Haplochrome Cichlids, also from Lake Malawi .

Dr. Heller's other interests include non-fiction reading (Recent Favorites Include Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson); Film and Theater; Hiking, Camping, and the Outdoors; and Travel (Dr. Heller and his wife have recently traveled to Costa Rica and Portugal .