by NDNR | Sep 4, 2019 | 2019, Bacterial/Viral Infections, Geriatrics, September
Docere Heather Herington, BSc, NMD, DHANP There’s nothing like having your own “incurable” disease to sense the impact of naturopathic medicine, especially when you – a naturopathic doctor – have been taught to not treat it. You figure there has to be more to that...
by NDNR | Sep 4, 2019 | 2019, Association Spotlight, Bacterial/Viral Infections, Geriatrics, September
Naturopathic News CARLO CALABRESE, ND, MPH Human health cannot be understood or optimized without considering the foundational roles that brain and mind play in our embodiment. Health, from the individual to our planetary context, depends on biological,...
by NDNR | Sep 4, 2019 | 2019, Bacterial/Viral Infections, Geriatrics, September
Naturopathic Perspective Greg Eckel, ND, LAc In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on The Shaking Palsy. In 1911, levodopa was first synthesized by Casimir Funk, though it didn’t enter into clinical practice until 1967. The first large study on its positive...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Education, Geriatrics, September
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Before the widely touted term, “integrative” (clever label), there was “complementary and alternative [CAM]” (opportunistic tosh). Integrates what with what? Complements what? Alternative to what? Sometimes, though, in that often...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Clinical Pearls, Geriatrics, Nature Cure, September
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE I felt then that I would lay myself on the altar, and be burned with fire, if woman could be saved from the darkness of ignorance, and the untold horrors of her diseases. – Mary Nichols, 1851, p.29 The...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Geriatrics, Mind/Body, Pain Medicine, September
Student Scholarship Honorable Mention Lee-Anne francois-dornbusch, ND Fraser Smith, matd, ND Pain is a challenging clinical syndrome that naturopathic physicians are well equipped to address. Society is realizing the shortcomings of conventional medicine’s...