Paul Epstein, ND and Node Smith “When any experience of body, heart, or mind keeps repeating in consciousness, it is a signal that this visitor is asking for a deeper and fuller attention. Under all the tears, the pain, the fear, and the anger we have contracted our...
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Acupuncture and Gluten Elimination for Peripheral Neuropathy: A Case Study
Lydia Thurton, ND Abstract This study describes the case of a 55-year-old male with painful peripheral neuropathy, which was severely hindering his quality of life. Despite numerous pharmaceutical interventions, his pain was poorly managed. Electroacupuncture and a...
The Psychological Aspect of Pain
Tolle Totum Iva Lloyd, BScH, RPE, ND It is common to think of chronic pain from a structural or functional perspective. What is not as common, but is equally important, is the psychological aspect of pain. The psychological aspect refers to how symptoms and...
Sensors and Filters Aid In Establishing Consciousness
Tolle Causam Iva Lloyd, BScH, RPE, ND Consciousness plays a tremendous role in both objective and subjective health status, but the understanding of how it is formed continues to be an area of great debate and mystery. New advances in physics are shedding some light...
Forward Into the Past: Reclaiming Our Roots Through an Inclusive Model of Medicine
Andrea Gruszecki, ND There is a growing debate in our profession about how we, as NDs, move into the 21st century. I continue to read NDNR articles by Dr. Robert Kellum that urge a return to our roots (which I support wholeheartedly), but through a specific...
Assessing and Treating Blockages to Healing
Restoring the Body’s Ability to Self-Heal, Auto-Regulate, and Adapt to Challenges Mikhael Adams, BSc, ND Helping the human body to heal is not complicated. Our body was imbued with the will to survive and to heal itself. Nonetheless, as practitioners of Nature Cure,...
Childhood Trauma and Adult Disease: What’s the Real Diagnosis?
Paul Epstein, ND “Traumatic events of the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child’s footprints in wet cement, are often preserved life-long. Time does not heal the wounds that occur in those earliest years; time conceals them. They are...
Science and Mind-Body Medicine: There is no refuting the science behind the mind-body connection
Jim Massey, ND Aristotle stated, “soul and body react sympathetically upon one another.”1 This connection between the mind, body, and soul or spirit has been debated throughout the ages. The history of this debate has been highlighted and dictated by the great...
Managing Mind-Body Medicine in a World of Obstacles
Tolle Totum Moshe Daniel Block, ND, HMC In March 2011, I published an NDNR article titled “Establishing the Mind-Body Connection in the Treatment of Auto-Immune Illness,”1 discussing my experience of how I helped myself and others heal from myasthenia gravis. Since...
Life by Design: Harnessing Values to Create Motivation in Your Patients
Rick Brinkman, ND Since naturopathic medicine is about looking at the whole person, in this article we’ll examine how having clear values, goals and plans can dramatically affect depression or low energy, and how you can use values to motivate patients to follow...