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...
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,...
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...
Node Smith, ND Like to unwind with a glass of red wine after a stressful day? Don't give alcohol all the credit. New research has revealed that the plant compound resveratrol, which is found in red wine, displays anti-stress effects by blocking the expression of an...
Node Smith, ND Nearly half of American women having a baby in the last decade received a prescription for a powerful opioid painkiller as part of their birth experience, a new study shows. And one or two in every hundred were still filling opioid prescriptions a year...
NODE SMITH, ND "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It's been my whole life for five years now," says Enrico Amico, a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL's Medical Image Processing Laboratory and the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. He's...
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Node Smith, ND The study, by the University of the West of England and the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, presents the hypothesis that disease risks are "ultimately interlinked" with biodiversity and natural processes such as the water...
Node Smith, ND The brain has a high energy demand and reacts very sensitively to oxygen deficiency. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich neurobiologists have now succeeded for the first time in directly correlating oxygen consumption with the activity of...
Node Smith, ND After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. "On the front lines right from the beginning..." "I was on...
Node Smith, ND We humans may not always see eye to eye on politics, religion, sports and other matters of debate. But at least we can agree on the location and size of objects in our physical surroundings. Or can we? Can we really see eye-to-eye? Not according to new...
In a study published in Biological Psychiatry, inflammation can be relieved for people over the age of 55 either through cognitive behavioral therapy or movement meditation Tai Chi. "Behavioral interventions that target sleep reduce inflammation and represent a third...
A study by Penn State researchers looked at zinc levels in breast milk as an indicator or breast health during lactation. In previous studies, they found that the protein ZnT2 is critical for secreting zinc into breast milk, and women who have mutations in the gene...
Cayla M. Bronicheski, M.Sc., CCNM Student The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) located in Toronto, Ontario, is home to the largest naturopathic medical school and teaching clinic in Canada – the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic (RSNC). With a populous...
According to a study published in Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, hypnosis may be a legitimate sedation technique for “awake surgeries” that are required for specific types of brain cancers. The study was conducted between...
Mayo Clinic researchers published a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology built on previous research linking childhood asthma to an increased risk of shingles. According to the researchers, asthma is one of the most burdensome chronic diseases that...
In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers looked at the connection between early childhood depression and gray matter maturation. Cortical gray matter thickness in the brain is associated with cognitive and emotional function. The growth of gray matter...
In a study published in the British Journal of Cancer, researchers out of Indiana University found that Magnesium was beneficial in staving off pancreatic cancer. That type of cancer is the fourth-leading cause of death among both men and women in the United States....
Recently published research out of Brown University has shown that in nematode worms, a protein that transports fat in the body can block processes in the cell that leads to reduced lifespan. One of the body’s naturally occurring proteins is called apolipoprotein B...
Decker Weiss, NMD, FASA Docere How Did Sneezy and Grumpy End Up in Cardiac ICU? There is a link between histamine production, depression, heart disease, and myocardial infarction. It is reasonable to assume that histamine production and release due to destabilization...
A lab investigation at the VA San Diego Healthcare System examined two variations of e-cigarettes to determine safety. Both nicotine and nicotine-free version were tested and found to be damaging to human cells. E-cigarettes are often thought to be a safe and are...
In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers looked at the connection between early childhood depression and gray matter maturation. Cortical gray matter thickness in the brain is associated with cognitive and emotional function. The growth of gray matter...
In a study published in the British Journal of Cancer, researchers out of Indiana University found that Magnesium was beneficial in staving off pancreatic cancer. That type of cancer is the fourth-leading cause of death among both men and women in the United States....
Recently published research out of Brown University has shown that in nematode worms, a protein that transports fat in the body can block processes in the cell that leads to reduced lifespan. One of the body’s naturally occurring proteins is called apolipoprotein B...
Decker Weiss, NMD, FASA Docere How Did Sneezy and Grumpy End Up in Cardiac ICU? There is a link between histamine production, depression, heart disease, and myocardial infarction. It is reasonable to assume that histamine production and release due to destabilization...
A lab investigation at the VA San Diego Healthcare System examined two variations of e-cigarettes to determine safety. Both nicotine and nicotine-free version were tested and found to be damaging to human cells. E-cigarettes are often thought to be a safe and are...
A recently published longitudinal study in older adults examined the association between different types of social contact with the risk of experiencing depressive symptoms. Social isolation has long been considered a risk for depression and researchers were...
WOODSTOCK, IL- Ortho Molecular Products announces the launch of Ortho Biotic 100, a high-dose probiotic delivering 100 billion active cultures per capsule to address cases of acute gastrointestinal and immune distress. The company’s first new product of 2016 joins a...
Early diagnosis for conditions like Alzheimer’s disease is crucial when it comes to the success of treatment efforts. Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease and so treatments are largely focused on slowing the progression, and helping with the cognitive...
According to the John Hopkins School Bloomberg School of Health that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine, there is a link between certain acid-reflux drugs and an increase in kidney disease risk. The study included more than 10,000 individuals and the results were...
Teton Village, WY -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/11/2016 -- Environmental Health Trust (EHT) scientists are calling on Google to stop the spread into schools of wireless virtual reality system Global Expeditions Pioneer Program where middle-school children hold a cell phone...
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Node Smith, ND As the number of young adults infected with the coronavirus surges throughout the nation, a new study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals indicates that youth may not shield people from serious disease. Study looked at data from a...
Node Smith, ND Smoking, divorce and alcohol abuse have the closest connection to death out of 57 social and behavioral factors analyzed in research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smoking, divorce and alcohol abuse have the closest...
