Christopher Knee, ND, MSc The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased dramatically in recent decades. Currently, about 34% of adults in the United States are considered obese (body mass index; BMI > 30.0 kg/m2),1 with a combined estimate of 65% being...
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Trusting a Space of Not Knowing: Stop, Look Both Ways, and Proceed with Caution
Student Scholarship – Honorable Mention Case Study Node Smith, NCNM Leslie Nicholas, ND Vis Medicatrix Naturae. The healing power of nature. For many, this has become the driving force behind the prescription of botanicals, diets, and physical medicine procedures to...
Where The Rubber Meets the Road: Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Gary Weiner, ND, LAc With a plethora of IBD cases in our clinic, we find effective treatment requires a strategic approach integrating conventional use of medications such as corticosteroids, anti-inflammatories, immunosuppressants, and biologic medications with the...
A Case of Peptic Ulcer Disease: Healing the Digestive Tract with Traditional Naturopathy
Jennifer Brusewitz, ND Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD) occurs when the mucosal lining of the stomach and/or duodenum becomes inflamed, leading to a well-defined mucosal ulceration. PUD affects approximately 4.5 million people annually in the United States; an estimated 10%...
Crohn’s Specific Food Plan: A Case Study Using Traditional Foods
Jennifer Williamson, ND Albert, a 60-year-old male, came to my office in 2011 with chief complaints of joint pain, headache, gas and bloating, and a significant history of Crohn’s disease that he had been treating for 2 years by following the Specific Carbohydrate...
The Abdominal Compress
According to Kneipp and Priessnitz Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Not the cold but the body heat, produced by the reaction to cold water, is the healing factor. -Vincent Priessnitz (Lust, 1900, p.2) This [Priessnitz] bandage has been called a “universal remedy,” there is...
Disease, Health and the Human Microbiome
JUDY FULOP, ND, MS, FABNO According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease—call it cold, “flu,” pneumonia, headache,...
SIBO: The Finer Points of Diagnosis, Test Interpretation, and Treatment
ALLISON SIEBECKER, ND, MSOM, LAC STEVEN SANDBURG-LEWIS, ND, DHANP One of our major goals is educating physicians about effective treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In our last article on small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), we explained the basics...
Helminthic Therapy: An Emerging Intervention in the Era of Immune Dysregulation
Mark Davis, ND Helminths are worm-like organisms that naturally live in and feed on about 1.5 billion human hosts around the world today.1 For most of medical history, helminths have been classified as parasites, but some of these organisms, such as Enterobius...
Celiac Disease
An Alternate Route to Diagnosis Kelly Simms, ND Celiac disease (CD) is one of the most common disorders affecting humans, with serology-confirmed prevalence in populations of Caucasian descent being close to 1:100.1 The majority of patients are likely still awaiting...