The Writing Side of Your Profession and Practice
Kate Williams, MA If you are a doctor practicing naturopathic medicine, you likely have been faced with multiple and varied occasions to write. For many of you, this may be excruciating and not [...]
Kate Williams, MA If you are a doctor practicing naturopathic medicine, you likely have been faced with multiple and varied occasions to write. For many of you, this may be excruciating and not [...]
Dicken Weatherby, ND Hypochlorhydria is a condition of decreased secretions of hydrochloric acid (HCl) and pepsin from the parietal cells in the stomach. Generally associated with aging, it can [...]
Sharon Stills, ND and Victoria Bowmann, PhD When I completed my formal naturopathic education and training and began private practice, I realized that my education had just begun. As patients [...]
Jacob Schor, ND We usually think of curcumin in terms of cancer treatment, yet it may play an equally valuable role in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Curcumin is the [...]
David Schleich, PhD There is an inevitable need to achieve “social closure” for our medicine, achievable in our time if the necessary conditions can be systematically met. Those include: a [...]
Steven Sandberg-Lewis, ND Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a $13 billion a year industry in the U.S. There were 95 million prescriptions written for these in 2005. Omeprazole, the first PPI to [...]
Dan Carter, ND and Virginia Osborne, ND The current Merck Manual lists 14 main gastrointestinal disorders, with up to 14 subdivisions within each of the principle groupings (Beers, 2006). Add to [...]
Gaia J. Mather, ND Constipation is often treated more like an inconvenience rather than an overwhelming problem until it becomes just that, a serious problem. I view constipation as a life [...]
Joe Kellerstein, DC, ND The digestive tract is a great testing ground for the ”vision” of a naturopathic doctor. The gut is considered external to the body and yet, strangely enough, I don’t [...]
Christine Doherty, ND Celiac disease is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed diseases in the country. One in 130 Americans have celiac disease, yet it currently takes a person about nine years [...]