by NDNR | Aug 21, 2014 | 2014 | August, Anxiety/Depression/Mental Health, Endocrinology, Oncology
Lise Alschuler, ND For many patients, chronic stress is a fact of modern life. Yet, while most clinicians are keenly aware that stress can play a major role in the development of disease, it’s also important to be familiar with how the underlying stress response...
by NDNR | Aug 20, 2014 | 2014 | August, Endocrinology
Saul Marcus, ND Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease that produces hyperthyroidism. I got started working with Graves’ disease patients by writing a series of web pages on hypothyroidism. Without thinking much about it, I included a few paragraphs about Graves’...
by NDNR | Aug 20, 2014 | 2014 | August, Endocrinology, Fertility, Women's Health
Amy Day, ND When a woman presents to her allopathic doctor seeking help for managing her endometriosis (endo), nearly every treatment offered to her will impair her fertility. Hysterectomy, hormonal contraceptives, levonogestrel-releasing-IUD, and leuprolide...
by NDNR | Aug 20, 2014 | 2014 | August, Endocrinology, Fertility, Women's Health
Shawna Darou, ND As naturopathic doctors searching for the root cause of illness, we are in a unique position with regard to a fertility work-up, in that we are already trained to look for what is missing. “Unexplained infertility” is a diagnosis given to couples when...
by NDNR | Aug 20, 2014 | 2014 | August, Anti-Aging, Endocrinology, Fertility
Dr. Jaclyn Chasse, N.D Today, changes in societal norms have led to couples, and women in particular, having children later in life. According to the CDC US National Vital Statistics Report from 2010, women over 40 are the only age group where birth rates are on the...
by NDNR | Aug 8, 2014 | 2014 | August, Endocrinology
Monique Hallee, BScHK, ND So often, support of the adrenal glands is included in naturopathic treatment plans. A common thought is that if you treat the adrenals, you also have to treat other hormone producers, like the thyroid and sex organs (ovaries or testes)....
