Toledo Naturopathic, Dr. Maleigha Watts

03/25/2026

Someone recently asked me to share some of the products that I use at home. It can be overwhelming, can't it? Filtering through the many products and databases to find something that not only works for the intended purpose but also isn't a chemical sh*tstorm? I will be the last to claim I'm perfect in this department (you will pry my dry shampoo from my cold, dead, rigid hands---right Kasey?!), but here's some of what I have come across over time:

Cosmetics: tarte cosmetics

Facial routine: Courtesy of products that I pick up from Skin Wellness by Casey. Oil cleansing changed my life (and my skin!); I end each day with an oil face wash and hot towel to my face. Daily face cream for moisturizing. The tinted facial SPF is brand spanking new to me, also from Casey, by Kari Gran Skincare & Mineral Makeup. I have started to get some sun spots/aging spots (which Casey said were probably years in the making), so it's time to up my game (very behind the game).

Hygiene products: I LOVE Little Seed Farm Deodorant Cream. For some reason, though, after my hysterectomy this past year our pHs aren't quite jiving as every time I wore it after I was chasing the smell of a dirty diaper around my office (only to find out it was me...I was the dirty diaper). I have settled for this Method deodorant which isn't phenomenal, with the hope I can return to Little Seed with time. Lastly, I HATE lotion. I hate rubbing it on, I hate how it makes my skin feel, that greasy feeling after. Thus, I haven't used it and have walked around with very dry skin instead. Until, my friend Carrie brought me container of Body Butter from Paper Street Soap in Tecumseh, MI. Now, hubs makes a trip up there when I am in need of refills (good stocking stuffers).

Low maintenance girlie in routine. HIGH maintenance girlie in quality. :-D

03/22/2026

Wrapping up Week 2 of our clean eating challenge/detox.
🚫 gluten
🚫 dairy (Exception: Kerrygold) 🙃
🚫eggs
🚫 corn
🚫 soy
🚫 sugar
🚫 caffeine
🚫 tomatoes
🚫 shellfish
🚫 peanuts
🚫 pork

But lots of food left to eat, a ton of flavor, and relatively simple/easy meals.

Lemon/dill salmon
Turkey tacos mango salsa/avocado
Lemon chicken either broccoli and Ramen
The ol' faithful: filet, asparagus, and ben yagi purple sweet potatoes.

Crochet update: About to get some arms on the cable-gauge sweater. 😍

Headed into Week 3 and feeling great!

3 Weeks until the big 4-2!

03/22/2026

Consider this your seasonal reminder to change your air filters today. 😷 (Also this is our personal reminder to take the Dyson to it once in awhile between changings, sheesh)

Just in time for the pollen!

We use Intellipure Air Purifiers and have been very pleased with them. We have a Compact one in our bedroom and living room. We run one at the office. Sarah has one at her place as well.

Of course, in typical-Maleigha-fashion, they discontinued the Compact ones at the end of 2025 (anything I find eventually goes away). BUT their Whole House H1000 covers 2,200 square feet and will be our eventual upgrade. Mold/Mycotoxin-filtering-approved. 🙌 Currently on sale for $479 and I have an additional 10% off promo code: DRWATTS

This is one of the few Affiliate Links I have. It is a product I can confidently stand behind! Link in comments.

03/21/2026

If you see me out wandering town like a very chill, relaxed zombie (with great skin, BTW!), it's because I just floated out of Skin Wellness by Casey 's place.

Another amazing facial from Casey. Toting home a Gua Sha stone to work on facial lymphatics and some all natch facial sun protectant for the summer months to come.

Thank you, Casey, for always taking such great care of me and giving me the space to peace out. 🥰

03/21/2026

Hubby and I went out to dinner at Kay's Table last night and then headed over to see Project Hail Mary.

Dinner was delicious, as always. 🤤

But the movie...

It has been a LONG time since I have watched something that felt so good, was truly meaningful, and had me thinking about it after leaving.

I think the whole world's nervous system needs to experience it.

Amaze, amaze, amaze. 👏 🤗

03/20/2026

I always knew I wanted to be a Doctor. It wasn't until high school, when I saw my Mom's Rheumatoid Arthritis reverse thanks to a holistic D.O., where I started thinking about what being a "Doctor" really meant to me. I thought maybe being a D.O. was it and I set off to school at UT. My college Honors Advisor told me I would never make it in medicine and to choose a different field. Distraught, I was at Carlson Library studying, and came across a book that talked about Naturopathic Medicine. "Naturo-what?" I found Dr. Ted of Ohio Naturopathic online, emailed and called him with questions, shadowed him, and the rest was kind of history.

We don't go into Naturopathic Medicine because of the job security, broad scope of practice, the 5-figure-signing-bonus, and prestige. We go into it with a mission to change the world, to change healthcare, fully recognizing the system is not working for many.

Every student that goes into Naturopathic Medicine School and thus every N.D. that graduates is eventually faced with the reality that the jobs for us are not plentiful and those that have "made" it generally had to pave their own way through entrepreneurial means.

Upon graduation from SCNM (since renamed Sonoran University of Health Sciences), I was fully hoping and planning to stay in Arizona with our very vast, cushy scope of practice, to do all-the-doctoring. Life had other plans, as it tends to do, and I ended up back in Ohio. I wasn't sure what would come of it because here, it's the Wild Wild West.

Ohio has no licensure for Naturopathic Doctors, thus no scope of practice. No regulation as to who can use this term. No standard of education or training required to use the term. Being in Ohio means N.D.s cannot function to their full training capacity. It greatly limits what we can provide to patients.

But, here we are 15 years later, thriving, and making waves the best we can. A thriving practice can still be made, thousands of lives changed for the better, and an overall very happy existence. I can't imagine how the game might change for our patients, though, if we can run labs, help with diagnoses, and have better access/ability to advocate for patients that are in the modern medicine paradigm.

This lack of licensure makes it incredibly difficult to recruit future N.Ds to the area. I remember that "being dragged back, kicking and screaming" feeling, and many feel the same (and then don't come). We cannot expand access to care without more N.D.s available to help with the patient load. And the odds of being able to recruit them become harder without licensure, a decent scope of practice, and thus more job security for them.

If naturopathic medicine has touched your life. If you want more access to care. If you want to see more Naturopathic Doctors in Ohio and *also* want peace of mind that there is criteria they have to meet to practice, then please consider supporting our new bill for 2026 SB 385, that is working to License and Recognize Naturopathic Doctors in Ohio.

Showing your support is as easy as clicking this link, entering your information a couple of times, and allowing your grass roots advocacy to reach legislators in Ohio.

Thank you!
https://naturopathic.org/page/LegislativeActionCenter?fbclid=IwY2xjawQqFS9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeOkQYU5xIAHKWZrxZyNbhwcdcMBQmkRBGMgEISysfgk5g4QKyJXgcuJw94GA_aem_DAJPuch8S8KrZ4m520COSA #/146

Founded in 1985, the AANP represents licensed naturopathic doctors, students, and allied healthcare professionals nationwide.

03/19/2026

🎉Everyone! The time has COME!🎉

The Ohio Naturopathic Doctors Association - OHNDA has been working to provide naturopathic care to the state and see Naturopathic Doctors recognized and licensed in the state of Ohio.

Our bill for licensure was officially introduced this week! It's time to roll. And if ever a time for a grass roots effort, this is IT.

If you wish for:
✅More access to naturopathic care and providers
✅Transparency in education and background from providers seen
✅To see a licensure/framework for built for NDs
✅More options in your healthcare decisions
✅More presence of holistic care and preventative medicine, which reduces healthcare costs by preventing chronic disease...

Then PLEASE check out this link to have a letter sent on your behalf to legislators, advocating for support of our bill and the licensing of Naturopathic Doctors in OHIO.

It will take you less than 60 seconds to fill out--enter your address first, then your contact info on the next page. You can, of course, take a bit extra time and thoughtfully add some of your own words in the template which we fully support. 😉

https://naturopathic.org/page/LegislativeActionCenter #/146

We are also in need of donations to continue to compensate lobbyists and continue this effort. I will put the link to our state association donation page in the comments.

🤗Every letter counts. YOUR VOICE matters. Please feel free to share. THANK YOU!🤗

Founded in 1985, the AANP represents licensed naturopathic doctors, students, and allied healthcare professionals nationwide.

03/18/2026

Almost 9 months ago I underwent an open abdominal hysterectomy to remove a GIANT fibroid that had been simmering not-so-quietly for a number of years.

In the weeks following surgery, I used this little rollator to help me mobilize around the house and even out in public (as the pain subsides you learn that your stamina is not what it was). At the end of a visit one day, my Mom gently nudged me in the way that Moms do, "You know, you're going to have to go without that soon." And then she left.

Maaaaybe I was a little annoyed for like 5 minutes but then I realized she was right. The next day I started doing laps in my driveway to get some encouraging solo-steps in. That turned into a walk around our neighborhood, then fast-walking, then walking/running, and by October I was running 5 miles.

I would have eventually went without the rollator, but maybe I wouldn't have had the determination if it wasn't for that bit of "tough love" and encouragement that she showed me.

Let this be a little nudge-nudge from me-to-you:

If you know that change needs to come soon, let this be your sign that you are capable of doing it. "Soon" can happen NOW.

03/17/2026

I feel disgruntled. And it's given me a case of writer's block--one of those situations of--if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all kind of things.

I blame 2 things for this sour mood:
1) We replaced our phones about a month or so ago (first time in...5 years?) and the rep told us that by upgrading our phones we would get "more priority on the calling towers and thus better connections over those lower on the tower" which seems like a total scam because folks--IT IS THE SAME "TOWER".

2) Then there's this video. Has anyone seen it? AOC taking on CVS Health? There are other videos like this, from other politicians taking on companies, if you aren't an AOC fan, but still appreciate the point.

CVS Health, owns the health insurance company, the medical clinics covered by the insurance company, owns the pharmacy that sells the drugs, owns the benefits companies that decides what is paid to who at the end of the day. Does the customer, er, I'm sorry, patient---does the patient benefit from any of this? Or are they passed along like a rag doll or cash cow?

If you are a big picture person, we can zoom out from this scenario before anyone ever enters a doctors' office.

Allow the corporations to have control of impact on the environment, poison the land, poison the food, deplete the nutrients from the food, add the enriched synthetic nutrients to the food, add the synthetic flavorings to the food so that real food is less satisfying. Add the sugar to the food that stimulates that dopamine so it's a habit that keeps on forming. Keep eating the foods that poison the body. Shake your head "no", high fructose corn syrup did not need to an explosion of obesity in western populations decades ago. "No" pesticides aren't or causing cancer. Illness surges. Develop the drugs, to not really fully heal, but manage the condition so that habits don't necessarily have to change and this rag doll customer becomes a patient and an ongoing consumer. Then the patient enters the above system, and the abuse continues. Better yet, market the crap out of those prescriptions on social media, make it boujee, so then they don't even care insurance won't cover them. And make them pay a premium in CASH.

I have zero solutions for this. But I had to get it off my chest. And maybe now writer's block is gone. 😅

Oh yes, a common thing our patients hear from Big Medicine is to not see Naturopathic/Functional/Holistic providers because we are predatory. 😂 Ok then.

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03/15/2026

Oven roasted a whole chicken for the first time ever today. (Probably a little late to the party...) Hubs gave it a 10/10!

Made my fav simple salad to go with it.

While it was cooking, worked on my first crochet cable-gauge sweater for hubs.

Made hummus for the week.

Last night, made up my own version of turkey burgers and hot diggity, they were good.

Just call me Betty Freakin' Crocker 😂🤪

You can eat clean and still eat DANG delicious.

03/13/2026

Throwing a mini celebration in my head this morning, as we did *all* the things right this week. By golly, it is HARD to nail it ALL, isn't it? (And perhaps unrealistic to think it will always be this way?) But darn it, we can try.

Hubs and I got back from vacation and hit the ground running with a 10 day detox (that will probably get extended).

The miraculous part is that everything fell into place at the same time, which I cannot recall a time in life where it all happened this way...

✅️ Clean eats
✅️ Detox protocol
✅️ Ample protein, fiber, fats, and healthy carbs
✅️ Textbook 💩
✅️ The right supplements throughout the week *and* remembering to take them
✅️ Movement every day (heavy weights and brisk walking)
✅️ Ample water
✅️ 8 hours of good quality sleep
✅️ ️ Very low stress/low work demand

Celebrate your wins! Don't beat yourself up if it isn't perfect. Try, try again.

03/10/2026

The good news is: I finally finished my first crochet cardigan!

The bad news is: it's 71 degrees outside. 😂🤣