Node Smith, ND A recent study has linked paternal tobacco smoking to lower sperm count in sons. However, this study wasn’t looking at maternal smoking, but rather the smoking status of the father. The research team found that independently of nicotine exposure from...

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Sleep More, Study Less, Perform Better on Exams
Node Smith, ND A recent study underlines the importance of a good night’s sleep for mental performance. In fact, for students, a night of sleep may be better than using that time for studying, for a final exam for instance. This is what was found when students at...
Doctor’s Data, Inc and Labrix
Doctor’s Data, Inc. has provided innovative specialty testing to healthcare practitioners around the world from our advanced CLIA-licensed clinical laboratory since 1972. In June of 2016, Labrix Clinical Services, Inc. joined Doctor’s Data to expand our testing...
Balneo and Light Therapy Effective for Psoriasis and Atopic Eczema
Node Smith, ND It’s always great to hear about the research on balneotherapy and other hydrotherapeutic treatments. Especially when those treatments are for conditions that are often difficult to treat using conventional means. Much of the research and use of...
Lung-Inspired Method Turns Water to Fuel
Node Smith, ND Scientists at Stanford University have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. Their research, published December 20th in the journal Joule, could help existing clean energy technologies run...
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Blood Pressure Meds Side Effect Differences
NODE SMITH, ND People who are just beginning treatment for high blood pressure can benefit equally from two different classes of medicine -- angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) -- yet ARBs may be less likely to cause...
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TB Not a Life-long Concern in Most People
Node Smith, ND A new analysis challenges the longstanding notion that tuberculous infection is a life-long infection that could strike at any time and cause tuberculosis (TB). Based on a review of clinical studies, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at...
What Happens in the Brain When We “Crash in Visual Processing?”
Node Smith, ND Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing"; a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli that our brain recognized. How people can...
Déjà Vu All Over Again: An Identity for the Profession
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radioDid you try to read the writing on the wallDid that voice inside you say I've heard it all beforeIt's like Deja Vu all over again(John Fogerty) At a naturopathic conference in England this...
Notes from the Field: October, 2019
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is a not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the...
PCH | SharePractice
How does supporting naturopathic medicine relate to your company culture? SharePractice is the first Integrative Medical reference that doctors use at the point of care to share best practices. Doctors search for any diagnosis and see every available treatment...
PCH | Restorative Formulations
How does supporting naturopathic medicine relate to your company culture? RF is focused on philanthropy, physician education, and providing superior quality ingredients. Approximately 95% of our botanical extracts are certified organic or wildcrafted, and in some...
Naturopathic Gathering Oct 10-12
WHO: Intended for naturopathic medical students and naturopathic physicians, however all are welcome. WHAT: The Naturopathic Gathering is a unique, student driven, national conference to learn more of the philosophy bound with naturopathic medicine from the elder...
Nationwide Tour: Dr. Corey Schuler Presents
Exposing the Effects of Modern Stress: Nutritional Strategies to Optimize the HPA Axis GREEN BAY, WI (August 29, 2014) – Beginning September 2014, Corey Schuler, MS, DC, CNS, LN will present Exposing the Effects of Modern Stress: Nutritional Strategies to Optimize...
Putting Patient Tools to Work
5 Reasons Naturopathic Doctors Should Curate their Patient Education James Maskell Every doctor knows, at the Latin root of his or her profession, doctor means teacher. That aspect of the art of medicine has been somewhat lost in our current, patriarchal medical...
The New Federal Compounding Law
Compounding Problems for Your Practice and Patients? Mike Corrado This past November, Congress passed – and the president signed into law – the Drug Quality and Security Act (HR 3204). The impetus for federal involvement was the sale in 2012 of tainted sterile...
PCH | Wise Woman Herbals®
How does your company culture support naturopathic medicine? Wise Woman Herbals® was founded in 1989 by a naturopath for naturopaths. We offer the most comprehensive line of high quality botanical supplements to professionals with formulas based on the eclectics and...
Nordic Naturals Hosts Very Special Guests at NPEE 2014
New Products, Presentation, Discounts, Prizes Also on Tap in Baltimore Watsonville, California (August 19, 2014) Nordic Naturals®—ranked the #1 fish oil in the U.S. according to SPINS—will host special guests from Paws for Veterans during Natural Products Expo East,...
Drug Thought to Prevent Breast Cancer Debunked
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A study has shown that osteoporosis drugs may not protect women from developing breast cancer as previously believed. A University of California, San Francisco study published Aug. 11 in JAMA Internal Medicine, says that earlier studies of women...
Optimizing the HPA Axis
Lise Alschuler, ND For many patients, chronic stress is a fact of modern life. Yet, while most clinicians are keenly aware that stress can play a major role in the development of disease, it’s also important to be familiar with how the underlying stress response...
The New Federal Compounding Law
Compounding Problems for Your Practice and Patients? Mike Corrado This past November, Congress passed – and the president signed into law – the Drug Quality and Security Act (HR 3204). The impetus for federal involvement was the sale in 2012 of tainted sterile...
PCH | Wise Woman Herbals®
How does your company culture support naturopathic medicine? Wise Woman Herbals® was founded in 1989 by a naturopath for naturopaths. We offer the most comprehensive line of high quality botanical supplements to professionals with formulas based on the eclectics and...
Nordic Naturals Hosts Very Special Guests at NPEE 2014
New Products, Presentation, Discounts, Prizes Also on Tap in Baltimore Watsonville, California (August 19, 2014) Nordic Naturals®—ranked the #1 fish oil in the U.S. according to SPINS—will host special guests from Paws for Veterans during Natural Products Expo East,...
Drug Thought to Prevent Breast Cancer Debunked
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A study has shown that osteoporosis drugs may not protect women from developing breast cancer as previously believed. A University of California, San Francisco study published Aug. 11 in JAMA Internal Medicine, says that earlier studies of women...
Optimizing the HPA Axis
Lise Alschuler, ND For many patients, chronic stress is a fact of modern life. Yet, while most clinicians are keenly aware that stress can play a major role in the development of disease, it’s also important to be familiar with how the underlying stress response...
Graves’ Disease: Natural Treatment Considerations
Saul Marcus, ND Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease that produces hyperthyroidism. I got started working with Graves’ disease patients by writing a series of web pages on hypothyroidism. Without thinking much about it, I included a few paragraphs about Graves’...
Grief Recovery & Bedside Manner: Feelings First
Russell P. Friedman The Grief Recovery Institute (of which I’m the executive director) has been connected to the funeral industry for more than 35 years. We’ve also been linked with the clergy from all religions, since they are also at the forefront when there’s been...
Endometriosis: Preserving Fertility By Treating It Holistically
Amy Day, ND When a woman presents to her allopathic doctor seeking help for managing her endometriosis (endo), nearly every treatment offered to her will impair her fertility. Hysterectomy, hormonal contraceptives, levonogestrel-releasing-IUD, and leuprolide...
Unexplained Infertility: Solving the Puzzle with Naturopathic Medicine
Shawna Darou, ND As naturopathic doctors searching for the root cause of illness, we are in a unique position with regard to a fertility work-up, in that we are already trained to look for what is missing. “Unexplained infertility” is a diagnosis given to couples when...
Fertile over 40
Dr. Jaclyn Chasse, N.D Today, changes in societal norms have led to couples, and women in particular, having children later in life. According to the CDC US National Vital Statistics Report from 2010, women over 40 are the only age group where birth rates are on the...
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Seventh-Day Adventists Have Better Health
Node Smith, ND A recent study found lower rates of premature death and cancer in Seventh-day Adventists, a Protestant denomination long known for health promotion, compared with individuals in the general U.S. population. Published early online in CANCER, a...
Chocolate as a Treatment for Peripheral Artery Disease?
Node Smith, ND In a small study of 44 peripheral artery disease patients over age 60, those who drank a beverage containing flavanol-rich cocoa three times a day for six months were able to walk up to 42.6 meters further in a 6-minute walking test, compared to those...





