by Razi Ann Berry | Dec 3, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
We Became a Medicated Society More than one in ten American adults now take prescription medication for depression. Women receive these prescriptions at double the rate of men. Add in antipsychotics, stimulants, mood stabilizers, and anti-anxiety drugs and you get to...
by NDNR | Nov 24, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
When we started publishing cases in the Journal of Applied Naturopathic Medicine (formerly NDNR), the bulk of pediatric cases were mild: ear infections, upper respiratory infections, rashes, food allergies. Parents who brought their kids to an ND were considered...
by NDNR | Nov 24, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
Why Starting Gentle Is Actually Radical The order you do things matters. When baking bread, repairing an engine, building a house; do it out of order and it fails. In medicine, we’ve reversed the order. We start with the strongest intervention instead of the gentlest....
by NDNR | Nov 24, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
Before medicine had metrics, it had stories built on observation that carried clinical truths in plain words. One of them still teaches a rule of clinical success. Build foundations, then treat. The Three Little Pigs understood the Therapeutic Order. The tale of the...
by NDNR | Nov 24, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
After 20 years publishing NDNR monthly, I’ve heard this dismissal of case reports countless times. But I’ve come to believe we’re overlooking something critical: Medicine has always been built on careful observation of individual patients. Yes, RCTs...
by NDNR | Nov 21, 2025 | Letters to the Editor
After 20 years publishing NDNR’s Applied Naturopathic Medicine journal, I’ve watched “dangerous pseudoscience” become the standard of care. You may remember we were called irresponsible for publishing IV nutrient protocols. Now there’s an IV...
