Bronner Handwerger, ND Assessing cardiovascular risk factors is always part of the naturopathic intake. The question arises as to how we assess these risks. We recognize that traditional markers like cholesterol, HDL, LDL, Lp(a), fibrinogen, homocysteine and even...
Fertility
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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Kristina Conner, ND I’ve reached an interesting point in my career, becoming no longer enamored of diagnosing. Perhaps I have done it enough to realize the shortcomings of our diagnosis system. As I mature in my practice and revisit information to teach classical...
Herbal Treatments for Cervical Dysplasia
Eric Yarnell, ND and Lauren Russel, ND Cervical cancer and dysplasia are sexually transmitted diseases caused by a variety of subtypes of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Incidence has been dropping in developed countries, presumably because of improved condom use and...
The Functional Approach to Hormonal Imbalance
Dicken Weatherby, ND It is the way of modern medicine and of some “alternative” practitioners to simply address the symptoms of hormonal imbalance, say by prescribing hormones or herbs rather than looking at the case from a functional perspective. Between 15% and 20%...
Testosterone and the Healthy Woman
Mary F. Shackelton, MPH, ND Hormone balancing for women usually includes consideration of progesterone and estrogen levels, and the management of symptoms resulting from deficiencies or excesses of each hormone. However, testosterone is of significance and important...
Thermography: A Preventive Screening Tool for Breast Health
Erika Horowitz, ND, MSOM Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of death among women, behind lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Association, in 2007 an estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women, as well as an...
Gestational Diabetes and Predisposition to Pediatric Metabolic Disorders
Amanda Anderson, ND We know optimal nutrition starts in utero. We know about folic acid preventing neural tube defects. We even know about DHA helping develop fetal neural and ocular tissue. What we have yet to realize is the effect of sugar on infants growing in the...
PSA: A Failed Screening Test
Eric Yarnell, ND Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a protease produced by prostate cells to liquefy the semen. Though it is found in non-prostatic cells in minute amounts, it is largely a product of the prostate and thus fairly specific for problems in that organ....
Prostate Cancer: Advances in Botanical Medicine
Eric Yarnell, ND and Lauren Russel, ND Prostate cancer is the most common invasive cancer and the second most lethal cancer in men. After the introduction of the total prostate specific antigen (tPSA) test in the late 1980s, detection increased dramatically, though...
Progesterone: A Male Hormone
Progesterone: A Male Hormone Progesterone has long been known as the steroid hormone implicated in all things female: the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis. We’ve been slathering it on, as women, to aid in fibrocystic breasts, uterine cancer...