Virender Sodhi, MD, ND According to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine,1 the definition of anti-aging medicine is based on a specialty founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment,...
Anti-Aging
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The Run for Our Future, Moving Natural Medicine Forward
Bianca Garilli, ND Although no ND is your “typical” physician, Dr Dennis Godby is even less so. For most of us, our calling into naturopathic medicine went something along these lines: I want to make the world a better place; I want to be a healer; I want to bring...
The Staff of Life
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE One of the curses which white bread, or robbed bread has inflicted on the people is constipation. A. W. McCann, 1914, p. 680 The farmer, even, is eating white bread, baked in the city—a state of affairs that would have been unbelievable, a...
The Obesity Challenge | How to Use hCG in Your Practice
Michael Corsilles, ND, PA-C Obesity may be the number one antiaging issue in our society simply because it shortens our life span. Children are developing serious diseases at a younger age, which prematurely subjects them to the deterioration of their health and...
Evidence-Based Strategies for Prevention and Treatment of Age-Related Cognitive Decline
Pamela Hutchison, BSc, ND Age-related cognitive decline begins, remarkably, in the late 20s and early 30s. As we age, we lose brain function from cellular injury due to inflammation, toxin exposure, insufficient sleep, injury, and other noxious influences. The...
Photosensitizing Herbs: Skin Diseases and Cancers
Jillian Stansbury, ND Although photosensitizing herbs are a cause of concern for obvious skin damage and dermal inflammation, they also have many medicinal effects when used in appropriate dosages. The main photosensitizing herbs are in the Apiaceae family, but...
Monitoring Hormone Therapy with 24-Hour Urine Testing: A Menopause Case Study
Pushpa Larsen, ND As more NDs venture into the use of bioidentical hormones for treating symptoms of menopause and preventing age-related degeneration, it is incumbent on us to know that we are using these therapies in safe and effective ways. Presented herein is a...
Naturopathic Support for an Individual with a Stoma: Case Study of an 84-Year-Old Woman with a Transverse Colostomy Resulting from Acute Intestinal Infarct
Candice Esposito, ND The word stoma comes from the Greek for “mouth” or “opening.” A stoma is a surgically created opening in the abdomen through which feces or urine is directed outside of the body. The surgical procedure, called an ostomy, may be required for...
How Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products Can Cause Harm
Anne Marie Fine, NMD and Sara Rodgers, NMD, MS Naturopathic physicians are experts in helping people decide what to put in the body; we are also well-positioned to provide expert advice on what to put on the body. Personal care products represent the largest class of...
Epigenetics- Helping to explain positive outcomes
Bradley R. West, ND Dietary supplements, botanicals, counseling, homeopathy, physical medicine and most, if not all, other modalities we use in naturopathic medicine often have an unexplainable component. The mechanism of action, or in ‘reductionist’ thinking, the...