Struggling to sell one multi-million dollar home currently on the market won’t stop actress and singer Jennifer Lopez from expanding her property collection. Lopez has reportedly added to her real estate holdings an eight-plus acre estate in Bel-Air anchored by a...
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Coronavirus: France deaths at city 14,400 ahead Macron lockdown
Struggling to sell one multi-million dollar home currently on the market won’t stop actress and singer Jennifer Lopez from expanding her property collection. Lopez has reportedly added to her real estate holdings an eight-plus acre estate in Bel-Air anchored by a...
Philanthropy & Naturopathic Medicine: What Gives?
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Because the healthcare and higher-education sectors are in turmoil and many are worried, the role of philanthropy to keep it all going is important to understand. As enrollments in the education sector contract for a while, the value...
Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842-1922)
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE It is Nature that cures, not we. ~ Friedrich E. Bilz, 1898, p.6 Our only task then is to aid this vital power, and the subject of this present work is to thoroughly teach how it may be done. ~ Friedrich E. Bilz,...
UBCNM Program Closure: A Canary in a Coal Mine?
Open Letter to the Profession David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN, IFMCP, FACN By now many of you are undoubtedly aware of the decision by the University of Bridgeport (UB) to cease further enrollment and complete a “teach-out” in its 20-year old naturopathic medical...
Tell Me Your Story: Narrative Medicine in the Therapeutic Relationship
Tolle Totum Lauren (McKinney) Mandych Paul Epstein, ND Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about,...
Taming the Reptilian Brain
Naturopathic Perspective Jim Massey, ND, HANP We find ourselves living in a most tumultuous time of our human civilization. We face a fork in the road, where we can either move forward and work together or we can further separate ourselves from one another and risk...
CBD Cases & Clinical Pearls: Anxiety & Depression
Integrative Cannabis Aimée Gould Shunney, ND Despite lightning-fast expansion of clinical use of hemp CBD (cannabidiol) in recent years, there is still a dearth of information available for healthcare practitioners (HCPs) that details the intricacies and pitfalls of...
Pleasure as Medicine: A Case Study
Tolle Causam Nicola Dehlinger, ND Jane is a 48-year-old woman who presented to clinic with anxiety. She had experienced anxiety since childhood, but it went undiagnosed until 2008, when she had her first full-blown panic attack. She also had severe endometriosis and...
The AANMC at 20: Crossing to the Next Decade
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Since 2001 the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC) has been promoting the naturopathic profession in North America from its educational perch. One top-of-mind focus all this time has been recruitment of new...
Holistic Use of CBD for Acne
Integrative Cannabis Rob Streisfeld, NMD Don’t judge a book by its cover. I am sure you’ve heard this phrase many times, but if the cover being referred to is the health of a person’s skin, you might actually understand that what’s inside has a direct relationship to...
Chronic Major Depression: Rapid Improvement Using Naturopathic Therapies
Student Scholarship – Second Place Case Study Courtney K. Pickworth, BA Lai Chim Chan, ND Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a significant public health concern associated with increased functional disability and mortality.1 Patients with depression have at least a...
Hope for Healing: Case Studies of Patients with Mental/Emotional Concerns
Vis Medicatrix Naturae Shawna Eischens, ND The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle, and permanent restoration of health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible...
Picrorhiza & Neopicrorhiza: Applications in Allergic & Inflammatory Lung Disorders
Botanical Insights Jillian Stansbury, ND Neopicrorhiza schrophulariiflora and Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora have been used traditionally for allergies, asthma, and inflammatory disorders, including liver disease. Neopicrorhiza grows in high-altitude locales of the...
Homeopathic Dermatology
Tolle Causam Sharum Sharif, ND In my general, primary care practice, 1 out of every 4 patients has a skin disorder/condition. As many of you know, treating skin conditions/disorders can be challenging, to say the least. I believe they are even significantly...
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Targeting Mitochondrial Function for Upstream Steroidogenesis and Adrenal Health
Chris D. Meletis, N.D. A clinical framework for restoring adrenal and gonadal hormone balance by supporting mitochondrial bioenergetics, antioxidant capacity, and adaptogenic stress resilience—upstream of testosterone, cortisol, and thyroid therapies. Abstract This...
Recognizing Paternal Postpartum Depression: An Underaddressed Component of Perinatal Mental Health
Alexsia Priolo Understanding the signs, risk factors, screening tools, and family-wide impacts of paternal postpartum depression—and how clinicians can better support fathers throughout the perinatal period. Abstract This article highlights paternal postpartum...
The Gut-Heart-Prostate Connection: The Link between Intestinal, Cardiovascular, and Prostate Health in Men
Lina Mockus, ND Emerging research reveals that gut-derived inflammation, microbial metabolites, and metabolic dysfunction link intestinal health to cardiovascular disease and prostate disorders—highlighting key opportunities for naturopathic, lifestyle, and...
Men’s Health & Compounding: A Pharmacist’s Perspective
Dr. Fatimah Hamade, PharmD Understanding Male Hypogonadism, Hormone Balancing, and the Role of Personalized Compounding in Optimizing Testosterone Therapy Abstract This article reviews the clinical foundations of male hypogonadism, testosterone evaluation, and...
The Most EXTREME Prostate Cancer Case I Have Seen in 23 Years of Practice…and What I Learned
Phranq D. Tamburri, NMD Abstract: A rare Gleason 10 prostate cancer in an 80‑year‑old veteran with a persistently low PSA challenges conventional risk models, highlights the limits of PSA‑based screening, and illustrates how active surveillance, patient personality,...
Georgia State Brain Researchers Draw Cellular Blueprint for How We Think, Feel
A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain’s smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and behavior, by demonstrating how specific cell types, chemical...
The Quiet Surge in Demand for Psychiatric Drug Tapering
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher We Became a Medicated Society More than one in ten American adults now take prescription medication for depression. Women receive these prescriptions at double the rate of men. Add in antipsychotics, stimulants, mood stabilizers, and...
Metagenics Names Patrick Sly as CEO to Lead Next Chapter of Growth
Aliso Viejo, CA – December 1, 2025 Metagenics, a leading doctor-recommended professional supplement announced it has named Patrick Sly as CEO, effective immediately. A highly regarded executive in the health and wellness industry, Mr. Sly brings a wealth of...
AHPA Leads Legislative Response to Protect Herbal Tinctures in New Hampshire
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is leading a coordinated industry response to protect the sale of alcohol-based herbal tinctures and liquid extracts in New Hampshire. The issue began when a concerned AHPA member reported that the New Hampshire Liquor...
Brazilian Copper Chelation Study Puts Numbers Behind What We’ve Been Testing For
A new compound reduced hippocampal inflammation and improved memory in Alzheimer's model rats A research team in Brazil has published animal data showing a copper chelating compound can cross the blood brain barrier, pull copper out of beta amyloid plaques, and...
Georgia State Brain Researchers Draw Cellular Blueprint for How We Think, Feel
A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain’s smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and behavior, by demonstrating how specific cell types, chemical...
The Quiet Surge in Demand for Psychiatric Drug Tapering
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher We Became a Medicated Society More than one in ten American adults now take prescription medication for depression. Women receive these prescriptions at double the rate of men. Add in antipsychotics, stimulants, mood stabilizers, and...
Metagenics Names Patrick Sly as CEO to Lead Next Chapter of Growth
Aliso Viejo, CA – December 1, 2025 Metagenics, a leading doctor-recommended professional supplement announced it has named Patrick Sly as CEO, effective immediately. A highly regarded executive in the health and wellness industry, Mr. Sly brings a wealth of...
AHPA Leads Legislative Response to Protect Herbal Tinctures in New Hampshire
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is leading a coordinated industry response to protect the sale of alcohol-based herbal tinctures and liquid extracts in New Hampshire. The issue began when a concerned AHPA member reported that the New Hampshire Liquor...
Brazilian Copper Chelation Study Puts Numbers Behind What We’ve Been Testing For
A new compound reduced hippocampal inflammation and improved memory in Alzheimer's model rats A research team in Brazil has published animal data showing a copper chelating compound can cross the blood brain barrier, pull copper out of beta amyloid plaques, and...
A Publisher’s Warning: The Pediatric Cases That Cross My Desk 20 Years Later
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher When we started publishing cases in the Journal of Applied Naturopathic Medicine (formerly NDNR), the bulk of pediatric cases were mild: ear infections, upper respiratory infections, rashes, food allergies. Parents who brought their...
Gentle
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher Why Starting Gentle Is Actually Radical The order you do things matters. When baking bread, repairing an engine, building a house; do it out of order and it fails. In medicine, we’ve reversed the order. We start with the strongest...
Three pigs
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher Before medicine had metrics, it had stories built on observation that carried clinical truths in plain words. One of them still teaches a rule of clinical success. Build foundations, then treat. The Three Little Pigs understood the...
Your n=1 study doesn’t count.
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher After 20 years publishing NDNR monthly, I've heard this dismissal of case reports countless times. But I've come to believe we're overlooking something critical: Medicine has always been built on careful observation of individual...
New Pain Signalling Switch Discovered by Tulane‑Led Team May Transform Treatment
A team of scientists from Tulane University and eight partner institutions has identified a previously unknown way that nerve cells communicate to trigger pain. In a study published in Science on November 20 2025, the researchers show that nerve cells can release an...
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