About Back to Nature Wellcare Center
Since 1993, the Back To Nature Wellcare Center, in Litchfield, Minnesota, has been providing Naturopathic Medical Care to people in west central Minnesota including, but not limited to the communities of Hutchinson, St. Cloud, Willmar, Atwater, Grove City, Cosmos, Dassel, Cokato, Howard Lake, Waverly, Maple Lake and Buffalo.
The center was founded, and is still served by Dr. Steven Fjerstad, N.D., a trained and Certified Naturopathic Doctor, who has worked and lived in the Litchfield area for almost his entire life. Dr. Fjerstad’s journey from local school teacher to Naturopathic Doctor is an amazing story.
In 1980, Dr. Fjerstad and his wife adopted an infant daughter from Mexico. She was a beautiful and wonderful addition to their family! But shortly after becoming a part of their family she began struggling with digestive problems that eventually became severe. The conventional medical community tried its best to diagnose and treat her. Dr. Fjerstad and his wife took her to every doctor who they believed might help and they submitted to every test and treatment that was suggested. Through 2 years of frustration and heartache the digestive problems only became worse, and she ended up having to be fed by machine. Eventually they began to lose hope, as the situation became critical with no solution in sight.
The Fjerstad’s were at their wit’s end, and their resources almost exhausted, when some friends suggested taking their daughter to a Homeopathic Doctor they knew of in Reno, Nevada. At first Dr. Fjerstad and his wife were skeptical, but they did not know what else to do, they were at the end of their rope. So they took their beloved daughter to the Homeopathic Doctor in Reno.
The doctor determined that their daughter suffered from DDT poisoning (DDT is a powerful pesticide used in farming). It is believed that her biological mother worked as a farm hand in Mexico, where she was exposed to large amounts of DDT in the fields. So, the Homeopathic Doctor began treating her for DDT poisoning, and it was not long before she started to show signs of significant improvement. For the next 3 years the family shuttled back and forth to Reno, 3 to 4 times per year, to continue the treatments. And today their daughter is a beautiful, active and healthy 30 year old woman.
Watching their daughter be restored to health and wellness seemed almost miraculous to the Fjerstads, but even more miraculous was the restoration to health and wellness they witnessed among the other patients being cared for by the Homeopathic Doctor.
It was then that Steve Fjerstad began studying Naturopathic Medicine so that he might give to other families the gift that had been given him and his family. Since he already had been a high school teacher, he met the requirements to enter Clayton University of Natural Health, Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from there as a Naturopathic Doctor, and founded the Back To Nature Wellcare Center, in Litchfield.
Today Dr. Fjerstad offers Naturopathic Medical Care to Litchfield and the surrounding west central Minnesota communities.