Dr. Candice Hidegkuti, ND, has a broad background in integrative medicine. For the last ten years, she has pursued her passion for natural healing and travels around the world to teach others the benefits of using foods and other natural modalities to live a healthful, joyful life.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lived her early years alongside its beautiful beaches where eating fresh fruits and vegetables were a way of life. She left Puerto Rico for Ohio with her family at the age of ten and eventually attended schools in the Mid-West with the hope of obtaining a medical degree with an interest in cardiology. After observing open heart surgery, she realized that traditional medicine is on the back-end of the disease process – treating disease rather than preventing it.
She left traditional medicine and for nine years was an entrepreneur in Naples, Florida. The long hours and stressful pace ultimately compromised her health. She was diagnosed with systemic lupus. Experiencing the after-the-fact approach of traditional medicine reawakened her medical interests. She found that the traditional medical "cure" (lupus is not really "curable") was worse than the disease. She brought herself back to disease-free functioning through alternative modalities including diet.
Wanting to help people prevent disease, she started the first integrative medical center in Naples, Florida. After eight years in integrative medicine in Naples, her youngest son’s near fatal auto accident in Ohio changed her life and location. Non-traditional modalities brought him back from death, after traditional doctors had given up hope.
Eventually,
she studied alternative modalities in Spain for two years
and brought back new medical alternatives when she
returned to Ohio to be near her mother and adult children.
She presently helps people discover natural healing
approaches to health challenges. She also teaches kitchen
therapy classes, including raw food preparation.
