Dr. Decker Weiss, ND I believe that anxiety is a key contributor to most of my patients’ medical issues, including cardiac, migraine, thyroid, or even digestive disorders. That is not surprising. Approximately 40 million Americans 18 years or older have an anxiety...
Anxiety/Depression/Mental Health
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CYP2D6 and Tamoxifen: SSRIs Lessen Benefit
Jacob Schor, ND Current evidence suggests that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen citrate in preventing breast cancer recurrence. This has special relevance because SSRIs are now widely prescribed to treat hot...
Low Sexual Desire in Women: Perceiving the Whole
Leslie Solomonian, BSc, ND Introduction Sexual dysfunction is a common and exceedingly complex concern experienced by women. It is a source of personal distress, and contributes to poor self-esteem, relationship disruption and decreased quality of life1-3. The...
The Autistic Gut Signature: An Expert Interview
Mark Swanson, ND, with Jeremy Nicholson, PhD Introduction Spotting autism at its very earliest stages and before symptoms occur to provide individualized targeted intervention is now an intense focus of autism research. This expert interview with Jeremy Nicholson,...
PANDAS: An Immune-Mediated Mental Illness
Steven Rondeau NMD BCIA-EEG PANDAS is an acronym for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections. It refers to a subset of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or a tic disorder who have presenting or...
To Scream or Not to Scream?
Steve Rissman, ND Is it best to let out one’s anger or to hold it in? Is counting to 10 better than saying what is on your mind? When it comes to anger expression, is less more? The right approach may seem simple to figure out for day-to-day social situations, but...
Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Treatment of Children and Teens
Diana Joy Ostroff, ND I had been treating children with autism-like characteristics for years before I had the opportunity of studying it in greater depth. It was always clear to me that although these children received similar diagnoses from their MDs, these children...
The Connection Between ADHD and Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Naturopathic Approach and Treatment
Stacy Bowker, ND As NDs, we are taught to find and treat the cause of our patients’ symptoms. In the case of children presenting with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there can be a variety of individual causes and more commonly, multiple causes that...
Early Onset Bipolar Disorder: A Case Study
Tara Skye Goldin, ND Early onset bipolar disorder is being diagnosed at an alarming rate. When I first started out in practice nearly 20 years ago, the thinking was that bipolar disorder was a disease that had its typical onset in late adolescence and early adulthood...
The Thyroid Web
Cheryl Kasdorf, ND The thyroid is the central gear in the complex web of metabolism and extremely sensitive to minor imbalances in other areas of physiology. An astute clinician should always ask what else is going wrong, as a result and cause, when they identify a...