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Part 2 of 2 David Arneson, ND   Many vitamins and minerals serve as cofactors and coenzymes for the production of neurotransmitters from amino acids. Our mainstay for treating depression and other mental health issues has always been intravenous (IV) nutrition and focused amino acid therapy. The IV treatments are almost always standard nutritional IV [...]

The Expert Report Interview With Catherine Darley, ND Mark Swanson, ND The patient age spectrum for sleep disorders requiring medical management ranges from infants to the elderly. The number of patients reporting sleep problems is staggering and is enough to keep millions awake at night, making sleep medicine among the fastest growing specialties in medicine. [...]

Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE All nature wakes with the sun, save only man! All nature goes to rest with the sun, save only man. Like the sun at noon all nature is at the height of activity, and again man is the only exception! Peter J. Thiel, 1903, p. 354   [...]

Sleep Apnea Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Sleep consumes about a third of our lives. It is no wonder, then, that “sleep medicine,” like so many other aspects of human experience, has been medicalized and monetized within biomedicine. There are numerous sleep disorders that have been researched and that drive a massive market of therapies, devices, [...]

Sleeping Disorders Among the Elderly Catherine Darley, ND It is commonly thought that as people age their sleep worsens. But is this true? Does it have to be? The answer is both yes and no. Some research has found that healthy elderly people sleep as well as healthy younger people. Yet, we know that the [...]

Causes of Non-Restful Sleep Iva Lloyd, BSCH, RHN, RPP, ND   Takes a close look at some of the varied causes of non-restful sleep, and at the impact an unsettled mind has on brain activity.   Adequate and restful sleep is an essential component of health, yet for many it is often elusive. When healthy, [...]

Part 2 of 2 Sussanna Czeranko, ND Do all of your thinking before you get under the covers. Sleep is too precious to sacrifice for a tangled skein of worry thoughts. Oscar Evertz, 1917, p. 252 Last month we looked at… Before the Sleep How the time before bedtime was spent determined the quality of [...]

Part 1 of 2 Sussanna Czeranko, ND Fresh air is the best and cheapest of all medicines, for certainly we can class it as a medicine if the properties of a medicine are to heal and cure.                        S. T. Erieg, 1926, p. 343 The duration of sleep has next to nothing to do with [...]

The Pathological Sequelae of Shift Work Catherine Darley, ND In our modern society we’ve become a 24-hour culture where you can do your shopping, work, and play at all hours of the night like never before. The time that humans historically have slept is called our “biological night.” A full 20% of working Americans do [...]