Tolle Causam Lauren Tessier, ND Mold illness comes in many different forms, with the most widely acknowledged forms being allergic and infectious, and the more controversial form being mycotoxicosis and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Molds and their...

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Marisol Teijeiro, ND   In the early 1900s, naturopathic medicine migrated to North America where the conventional medicine system was in full force. Imagine – a world that had since been a mix of snake oil salesmen, Native American shamans,...

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Matthew Strickland, ND Abstract Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is increasingly recognized as both an underdiagnosed condition and a contributor to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This case study describes a 19-year-old female who...

The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, ND This is the first of a new series of articles in NDNR based on transcripts of The Vital Conversation. The conversations occurred on Wednesdays for several years and were hosted by Jim Sensenig, ND, and other senior vitalists....

JARED ZEFF, with a little help from my friends James Sensenig (“call me Jim”) was an intelligence officer in the US Army during the Viet Nam War. They picked the most capable people for that assignment. In 1974, he enrolled in the National College of Naturopathic...

Tolle Causam Steven Sandberg-Lewis, ND, DHANP Abstract Acute gastroenteritis is increasingly recognized as a potential initiating event in the development of chronic gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and...

Naturopathic Perspective Quinn Rivet ND Anemia of chronic disease (ACD), also known as anemia of inflammation, is typically characterized by a microcytic or normocytic, normochromic anemia with low reticulocytes, along with possible mildly low hematocrit, hemoglobin,...

Naturopathic Urgent Care Rebecca Miller, NMD There are few (if any) urgent care or emergency medicine physicians in this country that are trained to approach an acutely ill patient with the guiding philosophy of Tolle causam, ie, treat the whole person. And yet, if...

Tolle Totum Melanie Keller, NDMichael D. Erdman, MBBS Although the origins of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) were once thought to be mostly psychogenic, we now know that the pathogenesis of IBS is multifactorial. This paradigm shift may be due in part to the fact that...

Regenerative Medicine Fred G. Arnold, DC, NMD Continuing in my series of articles on Regenerative Medicine, the topic of this article is prolotherapy. This technique is the first and oldest of the Regenerative Medicine treatments. Prolotherapy is a safe, simple...