by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Education, Gastrointestinal
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 be synthesized, is also available over the counter. These drugs are...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Education, Gastrointestinal, Mind/Body
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 this the finding that many other disease states affect the...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Education, Gastrointestinal, Nature Cure
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 situation that is analogous to the boiling frog anecdote, in which the frog...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Gastrointestinal, Homeopathic Medicine, Mind/Body, Pain Medicine
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 think of mine that way. In many ways it is the meeting point of mind (stress...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine, Education, Gastrointestinal
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 of seeking medical care to get a correct diagnosis. It is a chameleon...
