Natasha Lissos is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner with over 20 years of experience, whose journey into the field began with a personal Achilles injury that conventional medicine failed to heal. After discovering relief through acupuncture in China, she committed to years of rigorous training—first a degree in kinesiology, followed by six years of TCM study at AIM Academy in Toronto, and later doctoral studies in California. Today, she integrates acupuncture, herbal medicine, tuina massage, moxibustion, and qigong to restore balance and health for her patients. Her clinical experience includes treating over 100,000 people, often those who exhausted conventional medicine without relief.

In this interview, Natasha shares powerful case studies: a woman with multiple sclerosis who regained mobility and independence after chronic pain, fatigue, and disability; a man so allergic to the world he wore the same clothes for weeks, who regained full health and quality of life; and a patient with Parkinsonian symptoms whose tremors subsided after TCM treatment addressed underlying imbalances. Natasha explains how TCM views illness as disharmony in the body’s vital energy (qi), requiring balance across meridians, digestion, immunity, and emotional health. She emphasizes how chemical drugs often slow recovery by straining the system, while TCM strengthens the body’s innate healing capacity. Natasha warns that Health Canada’s regulatory changes threatening access to Chinese herbs would be devastating, as these remedies are not luxuries but lifesaving treatments for people who had nowhere else to turn. Her call to Ottawa is clear: recognize the science and safeguard Canadians’ access to natural, traditional medicines.