About the Natural Health Alliance
Our formal story begins in 2007 – but in reality we had our genesis many decades earlier. Talk to our members and with each you’ll find rich and diverse stories about how they came to be passionately interested in natural health and healing.
For some it was because of their own ill health. Others had seen family members suffering and knew there had to be a better solution than the limited options they saw advocated by traditional medicine. Many came to their work here because their business vision lead them out of more traditional fields and into creating cutting-edge products and services that could help their fellow humans.
That may sound lofty, but dig deep enough behind the story of each of the company logos on our home page and you’ll find people who actually feel called and compelled to help with a higher mission with their lives and work.
We are not talking about religion here, but simply pure human compassion.
But back to 2007. Early that year key representatives of 15 companies and practitioners in the natural health field met to discuss how to fight the proposed Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill.
Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of the bill. One aspect of this ongoing fight to protect New Zealanders natural health access has been a plethora of bills and schemes. If we were any less cynical we’d even hedge that the different names – ANZTPA, TTGA, TGA, TTH to name but a few – were just another ploy to create public confusion.
One very simple question to ask yourself when pondering the key to all this is: `Who most benefits if human beings are denied access to things that make them and keep them well?’ One old sage of New Zealand’s natural health scene, Dr Mike Godfrey of Tauranga – an enlightened general practitioner - has long been known for his phrase: “The human carcass is the only carcass that is valuable when it is sick”.
We have long recognised the different guises and the real agenda of such legislation.
From our formal small beginnings in 2007 we have now grown to an active and vocal nationwide group of concerned businesses and citizens fighting for our health choices.
Together we share a vision to make this country a world leader in natural health.