Sue Plummer, PhD Iveta Garaiova, PhD Marija Pevac-Djukic, MD(Serbia), ND(Canada) For centuries living microorganisms, particularly lactic acid bacteria (producers of lactic acid from sugar), have been used in food preservation. So there has been a long-term awareness...
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Tumor Mass vs. Spirit: Body and mind
Heidi Kussmann-Armstrong, ND Fall Apoptosis Each year in the fall, changes in daylight and temperature cumulatively signal the trees inducing them to become dormant for the winter months. Leaf apoptosis, or the falling of the leaves, signals the growth cycle of the...
Constipation | Part 1
A Symptom of Toxemia | Part 1 of 2 Sussanna Czeranko, ND What is wrong with most people is that they want to eat things that are not good for them, they want to drink things that are not good for them, and they want to do things that are not good for them. But they...
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Mona Morstein, ND For most patients, there are no real signs or symptoms that they have a fatty liver, outside of the metabolic syndrome picture they probably will demonstrate. - Mona Morstein, ND Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a leading problem in our...
Neurasthenia
Sussanna Czeranko, ND Past Pearls “Every hysterical person is a neurasthenic but not every neurasthenic is hysterical.” Otto Juettner, A.M., Sc.M., Ph.D., M.D., 1916 “Stimulants like drugs used for the relief of [neurasthenia] have been invented for both the patient...
Prevention, Diagnostics and Treatment Pearls for Renal Disease
Heather Aura Wdowin, NMD, CH One of my irreverent colleagues has a comical view of organ relationships, loosely based on Chinese medicine. The liver is like the eldest child: a resilient, responsible, overachiever who can bounce back after just about anything. The...
A Case of Parasites?
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND RN is a slender woman with dark hair and a pale complexion. On meeting her, the impressions were that she was warm, thoughtful and reserved. She is, as well, an excellent observer as can be seen from the following discussion. This initial...
Nutritional Support for Herpes Zoster and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
Ronald Steriti, ND, PhD Herpes zoster is a painful vesicular eruption caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV). It is marked by inflammation of the posterior root ganglia of the spinal or cranial peripheral nerves. After a prodromal illness of pain and paresthesias,...
Kfar Saba Syndrome
Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO I’ve seen three cases of ”Kfar Saba Syndrome” in as many weeks. Don’t go rushing off to look up this condition in your Merck Manual; it’s not listed. It’s my own name for the triad hypothyroidism, iron deficiency and B12 deficiency in the same...
Autoimmunity and the Role of Women’s Hormones
Mary Shackelton, MPH, ND The topic of autoimmunity is vast and complicated. Clinicians working with a female demographic have undoubtedly encountered many conditions related to autoimmunity and have perhaps questioned female-specific variables that affect the...