Michaël Friedman, ND Normally, the immune system provides the body with a defense against foreign substances by producing antibodies that direct blood cells to destroy the unwanted invader. However, sometimes the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body's own...
Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine
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Effectiveness of AUIT in Chronic Disease
Vis Medicatrix Naturae Deborah Ardolf, NMD In the United States, Autologous (or Autogenous) Urine Immunotherapy (AUIT) is a treatment involving the use of one’s own urine as an immune modulator, with an action quite similar to a homeopathic isode. The active immune...
Food Sensitivities and Epigenetics
Docere Ginger Nash, ND Determining dietary advice for our patients is notoriously complicated. As NDs, we must wrestle with this on a daily basis. Naturopathic physicians have the best training in nutritional science, and most of us have experience with a plethora of...
Hepatitis C: An Update on Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Protocols
Lyn Patrick, ND In August 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 published final recommendations for hepatitis C screening for the American public, a disease that now affects 5 million people in the United States (1 of every 50 individuals). The Centers...
Enhancing Bioavailability of Quercetin
Praevenire Jeremy Appleton, ND Quercetin is a widely distributed flavonoid in plants. Human beings regularly consume quercetin in a variety of fruits, vegetables, and herbal medicines. Well-known dietary sources include onions and apples; the main source of rutin...
Is Pink Scum Affecting Your Patient’s Health?
Tolle Causam Donna Beck, ND Once you start noticing it, you see it everywhere: the pink scum that accumulates at the edges of your bathtub, in the kitty’s water bowl, in the crevices of your sink, and even in the water holder compartment of your coffeemaker. You...
How Environmental Toxicants Contribute to Allergy, Asthma, and Autoimmunity
Walter J. Crinnion, ND The rates of allergy, asthma, and autoimmunity have been increasing worldwide for the last few decades. Various theories have been proposed to account for this alarming trend. One of them is the effect of environmental toxicants. Epidemiological...
It Is Never Too Late for a New Beginning
Helen Healy, ND Five months ago, I met Shirley, the 66-year-old mother of one of my dear patients. She came to me because she wanted “to get healthier.” She was concerned about her belly fat, hot flashes, cholesterol level, dry eyes, and ear dandruff. She began the...
Gluten-Free Lyme Whisperer: Interview With Joy Devins, Patient and Advocate
Mark Swanson, ND This issue of The Expert Report is a refreshing reminder that healing wisdom and learning comes as much from listening to our patients as it does from the science, knowledge, and understanding presented by fellow NDs and colleagues, medical...
Recognizing Anaphylaxis in Infants and Children
Signs, Tiggers, and Criteria to Diagnose and Treat Pediatric Anaphylaxis Tamara Cullen, ND You have just given the second diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccination in the series to a healthy 7-month-old girl in your office, and she seemed to tolerate it...