Dr. Eric R. Hampton, NMD

Dr. Eric R. Hampton, NMD

Founder & Medical Director

Dr. Hampton is a Naturopathic physician engaging with integrative medicine and is highly skilled and experienced in the areas of nutritional, alternative and preventative medicine. He is also happily married to his wife Melinda and the proud father of son Chasen and daughter Paige.

For over twenty years, Dr. Hampton has been assisting people to resolve difficult and chronic health conditions, prevent disease and improve health. He worked his way through undergraduate college as a personal fitness trainer while studying athletic training and exercise physiology at UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas). That education and experience allowed him to work as an orthopedic rehabilitation specialist and exercise/fitness consultant. He also served as the director of a post-surgical rehabilitation program in an out-patient physical therapy clinic that encouraged people to adopt healthy lifestyles and behaviors.

His experience in those areas led to a great appreciation of our body’s inherent ability to heal itself while also being confronted with the profound limitations of the conventional medical model. It was not uncommon for patients to be taking upwards of twelve to fifteen medications each day although those same patients kept wondering why they weren’t feeling any better! As a result, he made a commitment to advance his education at the respected and progressive Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM) in Tempe, Arizona, where he received his doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine in the spring of 2001.

Dr. Hampton is a member of HEAL (Human Ecology Action League), which is a non-profit organization for people affected by or concerned about environmental conditions that are hazardous to human health. He is active in the community and enjoys voluteering his time and resources to organizations who maintain the strength and poise to remain true to their stated purpose.

He is productively outspoken and has been featured on radio and TV programs, written articles for health related publications and lectures/blogs frequently about the extraordinary benefits that can be realized from utilizing the many treatment options that exist other than or in addition to, the standard and customary use of prescription medications and surgery.

Dr. Hampton recognizes and appreciates the great value of synthetic medication as he does write prescriptions when necessary. However, he feels very strongly that it is important to explore the intention behind the prescription. His experience has revealed that the long term use of medication is simply not necessary in most cases and he believes that most doctors prescribe drugs far too often without taking the time to explore the true underlying cause or causes of their patient’s health problems.

The indisputable fact remains that if medication were a solution for illness and disease, most illness and disease would have been eliminated many years ago.

Clinical experience has convinced Dr. Hampton that the majority of disease and illness can effectively be treated by implementing four simple steps:  IDNS: 1) Identify: investigate and identify existing deficiencies, imbalances and other underlying causes of illness and disease, 2) Detoxify: remove from the body that which does not belong or may be causing dysfunction, 3) Nutrify: provide the body with what it is lacking, in the form of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids, water and oxygen, etc…, and 4) Standby: get out of the way and do not over treat! Allow the body the opportunity to rejuvinate and recuperate. Dr. Hampton is currently writing the book on his concept of IDNS.

This treatment approach has proven to be tremendously effective and efficient, frequently without the use of prescription medications that can be associated with side effects that are worse than the conditions they were intended to treat.

Dr. Hampton created Arizona Prohealth, The Health Improvement Company with the goal of providing personalized, integrative and affordable medical and wellness care for the families of Arizona who are uninsured, underinsured, or have high deductable insurance plans.

His latest community project is specifically designed to meet the needs of working parents and their employers by providing the only active Sick Child Day Care Program in the state of Arizona. Pro-Kids, Get Well Child Care, aka the”Sick Bay”, provides a safe, clean and comfortable environment where children with mild to moderate illnesses can receive care when they are too ill to go to school or daycare. This allows working parents a valuable option when they are unable to rearrange their busy schedules at the last minute when their child unexpectedly becomes ill.

It is his sincere hope that Arizona Prohealth may serve as a practical and logical medical model of practical and logical ”HEALTH” care to illustrate that healthcare costs can be contained, the overall health of our population can be improved and the incidence of chronic disease can be reduced by employing proactive, preventative medical and wellness methods. As statistics and the increasing incidence of disease clearly reveal, it has become all too clear that our current ”DISEASE” care system is doing very little to improve the overall health of our population.

Dr. Hampton feels strongly compelled to direct, implement and promote the Arizona Prohealth model of healthcare for the greater good of the people, businesses and communities of Arizona with the goal of preventing disease, treating illness and improving health while improving productivity in the most cost effective manner possible.