Razi Ann Berry, Publisher 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...
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher 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...
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher 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...
A team of scientists from Tulane University and eight partner institutions has identified a previously unknown way that nerve cells communicate to trigger pain. In a study published in Science on November 20 2025, the researchers show that nerve cells can release an...
According to a study published Aug. 11 in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, doctors need to use caution when prescribing digoxin to patients with atrial fibrillation as it can cause debilitating strokes. The print version will appear Aug. 19. Digoxin,...
Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine- Mount Sinai researchers have solved a major mystery in cancer research: How cancer cells remain dormant for years after they leave a tumor and travel to other parts of the body,...
Bastyr University Creates New Cancer Patient Assistance Program Donation from Cleavage Creek Cellars will help fund patient participation Kenmore, Wash. (April 19, 2011) — A new program at the Bastyr Integrative Oncology Research Center (BIORC) will allow late-stage...
Jacob Schor, ND Current evidence suggests that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen citrate in preventing breast cancer recurrence. This has special relevance because SSRIs are now widely prescribed to treat hot...
Marianne Marchese, ND Over the years, there has been a steady rise in women’s health conditions such as breast cancer and endometriosis. Some say the increase is owing to better screening and testing. This may be partially true; however, during this past half century,...
Kimberly Windstar, MEd, ND, Lisa Taulbee, ND, and Erica Zelfand, ND Candidate A 28-Year-Old Woman Presents to the Clinic With Abnormal Pap Smear Results In the fall of 2009, a 28-year-old woman (“Sarah”) presented to the clinic seeking a safe alternative treatment for...
Kristy L. Anderson, NMD Genetically modified food is an unnatural process involving the genetic modification of genes. DNA from one species is extracted and reinserted into genes of an unrelated plant. The genes are harvested from multiple sources, including other...
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Kelly Marie Fitzpatrick, ND, BSN, MPS Acute inflammation by definition is a finite self-limiting presentation.1,2 The phases of acute inflammatory healing include the inflammatory phase, proliferative phase, and maturation phase,1,2 which lead to the repair of an...
VOTE FOR WHOLE-PERSON CANCER CARE REGARDLESS OF INCOME TORONTO, December 2, 2010 - After garnering more than 6,500 votes in an entry round of the Aviva Community Fund competition and landing in second out of more than 1,100 projects, the “idea” to establish an...
By Lina Mockus, ND How the gut microbiome, systemic inflammation, and metabolic health link cardiovascular disease and prostate disorders—and what integrative care can do about it. This article explores the shared metabolic, inflammatory, and microbiome-driven...
Dr. Stephen Parcell, ND A preventive cardiology case demonstrates how advanced imaging, aggressive lipid optimization, and integrative therapies can reduce coronary plaque burden in a high-risk patient. This case report examines the regression of coronary...
Dr. Michael Knapp, ND, DHANP A case demonstrating sustained remission of exercise-induced asthma, allergic oropharyngeal symptoms, and recurrent respiratory infections in an adolescent following constitutional homeopathic care. This case report describes the...
Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, FACC A step-by-step, evidence-informed framework for interpreting high coronary calcium CT results, refining cardiovascular risk, and implementing integrative prevention strategies. Abstract This article provides an updated, clinically...
Gut microbes from patients rapidly activate immune responses and nerve changes that drive lasting, unexplained pain. Gut Microbes Influence Chronic Pain and Immunity Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread pain throughout the body, often...
Naturopathic medicine has long emphasized digestive health as foundational to robust immune function. Early naturopathic physicians drew inspiration from pioneering microbiologist Elie Metchnikoff, who proposed in the early 1900s that beneficial gut bacteria are...
Early-Life Exposure from Pregnancy to Age One Impacts Teens' Health Early exposure to air pollution and artificial electric lighting increases children's thyroid cancer risk by measurable amounts. Children exposed from pregnancy through their first year experience a...
Toxic chemicals in children’s mattresses are released by body heat and weight, directly into the breathing zone during sleep. For infants and toddlers, chemical exposure during sleep can disrupt hormones, interfere with neurological development, impair organ function,...
Medical Radiation Now Accounts for 5% of All Cancer Diagnoses, Equal to Alcohol and Obesity Computed tomography (CT) scans performed in the United States will cause approximately 103,000 future cancers, accounting for a staggering 5% of all cancer diagnoses annually....
Clinicians Warn Against Relying on AI Without Biological Insight or Clinical Judgment Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly used to forecast cancer treatment outcomes, but physicians warn that these models fail without biological grounding and clinical...
A Naturopathic Case Study on Reversing CIRS-Induced Brain Atrophy Eric Dorninger ND, LAc This case study examines a 39-year-old male with severe neurological symptoms linked to Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) triggered by endotoxin exposure from a kitty...
Applying Primary Source Research to Homeopathic Practice Jamie Oskin, ND, DTBRm, DHANP In a previous NDNR editorial, I gave a review of a groundbreaking new conference at Sonoran University in Tempe, Arizona, that was a collaborative project of the American Institute...
Autism prevalence among U.S. children has reached a new high, according to a CDC report released in April 2025. New CDC data released April 2025 show that 1 in 31 eight-year-olds had received an autism diagnosis by 2022, a 22% increase in just two years. At some...
Whole Fermented Vegetables Preserve Intestinal Barrier Where Supplements Fall Short Preserved tight junction integrity and reduced gut lining damage by 40% under inflammatory stress Prevented the translocation of harmful compounds across the intestinal barrier...
Clinicians Warn Against Relying on AI Without Biological Insight or Clinical Judgment Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly used to forecast cancer treatment outcomes, but physicians warn that these models fail without biological grounding and clinical...
A Naturopathic Case Study on Reversing CIRS-Induced Brain Atrophy Eric Dorninger ND, LAc This case study examines a 39-year-old male with severe neurological symptoms linked to Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) triggered by endotoxin exposure from a kitty...
Applying Primary Source Research to Homeopathic Practice Jamie Oskin, ND, DTBRm, DHANP In a previous NDNR editorial, I gave a review of a groundbreaking new conference at Sonoran University in Tempe, Arizona, that was a collaborative project of the American Institute...
Autism prevalence among U.S. children has reached a new high, according to a CDC report released in April 2025. New CDC data released April 2025 show that 1 in 31 eight-year-olds had received an autism diagnosis by 2022, a 22% increase in just two years. At some...
Whole Fermented Vegetables Preserve Intestinal Barrier Where Supplements Fall Short Preserved tight junction integrity and reduced gut lining damage by 40% under inflammatory stress Prevented the translocation of harmful compounds across the intestinal barrier...
Inflammatory and Neural Pathways Explain Depression in Patients with Physical Pain Pain is not merely a secondary symptom of illness. It is an indicator of unresolved physiological disruption. Inflammation, far from being a defect, is the body’s coordinated response...
Chemical Profiling of Plastic Particles Reveals Implant Risks and Long-Term Exposure Concerns Nanoplastics are synthetic polymer fragments smaller than 100 nanometers. Microplastics range in size from 100 nanometers to 5 millimeters. By comparison, a human red blood...
Structured Weight Loss Protects Lumbar and Hip Bone Density in Postmenopausal Women Older women with overweight or obesity who followed a calorie-controlled Mediterranean diet combined with regular physical activity maintained key markers of bone health over three...
New Evidence Links Long-Term Use and Withdrawal Symptoms to Cellular Energy Dysfunction Benzodiazepines impair mitochondrial signaling across multiple systems in the body, not just GABA receptors in the brain. Mitochondria play a central role in regulating cell energy...
Depressed Fathers Raise Behavioral and Social Risk in School-Aged Children Children whose fathers had depression at age 5 were up to 37% more likely to develop hyperactivity, oppositional behaviors, and ADHD symptoms by age 9, based on teacher reports. These children...
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Early-Life Exposure from Pregnancy to Age One Impacts Teens' Health Early exposure to air pollution and artificial electric lighting increases children's thyroid cancer risk by measurable amounts. Children exposed from pregnancy through their first year experience a...
Toxic chemicals in children’s mattresses are released by body heat and weight, directly into the breathing zone during sleep. For infants and toddlers, chemical exposure during sleep can disrupt hormones, interfere with neurological development, impair organ function,...
