by NDNR | Jul 21, 2007 | 2007 | July, Gastrointestinal
Ralph Capone, ND It’s a very common scenario: You’re doing an initial intake with your patient. You ask about bowel movement history and your patient reveals a problem with chronic constipation that goes back many years. As physicians, we often encounter patients who...
by NDNR | Jul 21, 2007 | 2007 | July, Anti-Aging, Geriatrics, Pain Medicine
Rebecka Hoppins Campbell, ND Osteoporosis is defined as a “systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture” (Consensus Development...
by NDNR | Jul 21, 2007 | 2007 | July, Anti-Aging, Geriatrics, Nature Cure, Ophthalmology
Paul S. Anderson, ND Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of functional blindness in humans older than age 65 in developed countries around the world (American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2001). It is estimated that currently, 1.75 million people...
by NDNR | Jul 20, 2007 | 2007 | July, Anti-Aging
“Old age itself is not a disease, but a condition which may lead to illness on various levels due to the hyporeactivity characteristic of this state … Aging constitutes an inability to correctly respond to various rivaling stimuli.” – Bianchi, 1994 Treating patients...