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An Update on Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Protocols Lyn Patrick, ND In August 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 published final recommendations for hepatitis C screening for the American public, a disease that now affects 5 million people in the United States (1 of every 50 individuals). The Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Praevenire Jeremy Appleton, ND Quercetin is a widely distributed flavonoid in plants. Human beings regularly consume quercetin in a variety of fruits, vegetables, and herbal medicines. Well-known dietary sources include onions and apples; the main source of rutin (from which supplemental quercetin is derived) is the flower of Sophora japonica. The term quercetin is sometimes [...]

Tolle Causam Donna Beck, ND Once you start noticing it, you see it everywhere: the pink scum that accumulates at the edges of your bathtub, in the kitty’s water bowl, in the crevices of your sink, and even in the water holder compartment of your coffeemaker. You wonder what is this? Then you begin to [...]

Two Distinct Clinical Entities Nate Champion, ND It seems as if more and more individuals are being seen with clinical symptoms associated with adverse reactions to gluten, the structural protein component of wheat, barley, and rye. Often, these patients have already been to see a gastroenterologist, and many have had serologic testing performed for celiac [...]

A Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry Stacie Deyglio, ND   Dr James Wilson is the world’s authority on the stress syndrome known as adrenal fatigue. His book Adrenal Fatigue: the 21st Century Stress Syndrome is a commitment to the truth in defining and treating this well-known but poorly understood malady. Adrenal fatigue [...]

A Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry Stacie Deyglio, ND   It is the inordinately simple truth that scientific research is in the business of creating conclusive evidence to support medically sound physiological theories. When research confounds purported beliefs of how and why the body works a particular way, the scientific community balks [...]

Natural Approaches to Adult Nephrotic Syndrome Jenna Henderson, ND   Several autoimmune diseases of the kidney are classified as idiopathic. These conditions can be difficult to treat and often lead to renal failure. Allopathic medicine has had limited success with these types of nephritis and at best can slow the progression of the disease.1 For [...]

Paradigm Change in Disease Management? David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN The genesis of this article was a presentation delivered at the 2011 American Association of Naturopathic Physicians Annual Convention (Phoenix, Arizona) on the topic of autoimmune disease, which resulted in a substantial amount of inquiry and requests for further exploration of the topics [...]

Case Study of a 42-year-old Ironwoman with Daily Raynaud Disease Steven Sandberg-Lewis, ND, DHANP Raynaud disease (primary Raynaud phenomenon), named after medical student Maurice Raynaud in 1862, manifests as recurrent vasospasm of the fingers and toes. Raynaud defined it as “episodic, symmetric, acral vasospasm characterized by pallor, cyanosis, suffusion, and a sense of fullness or [...]

Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc   The World Health Organization1 predicts that depression will become the second most burdensome disease in the next decade, with the greatest onus in North America and the United Kingdom. Major depression is present among 33.3% of patients in the United States, and with 160 million prescriptions annually, antidepressants are the [...]