by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Education, Gastrointestinal, Mind/Body
Dan Carter, ND and Virginia Osborne, ND The current Merck Manual lists 14 main gastrointestinal disorders, with up to 14 subdivisions within each of the principle groupings (Beers, 2006). Add to this the finding that many other disease states affect the...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Education, Gastrointestinal, Nature Cure
Gaia J. Mather, ND Constipation is often treated more like an inconvenience rather than an overwhelming problem until it becomes just that, a serious problem. I view constipation as a life situation that is analogous to the boiling frog anecdote, in which the frog...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Gastrointestinal, Homeopathy, Mind/Body, Pain Medicine
Joe Kellerstein, DC, ND The digestive tract is a great testing ground for the ”vision” of a naturopathic doctor. The gut is considered external to the body and yet, strangely enough, I don’t think of mine that way. In many ways it is the meeting point of mind (stress...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine, Education, Gastrointestinal
Christine Doherty, ND Celiac disease is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed diseases in the country. One in 130 Americans have celiac disease, yet it currently takes a person about nine years of seeking medical care to get a correct diagnosis. It is a chameleon...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine, Gastrointestinal, Pain Medicine
Carrie Louise Daenell, ND Although there are variations along the way, the basic structure of the GI tract is the same throughout its entire length. A good example of this variation is found in the lining of the stomach. This dense layer of cells continually...
by NDNR | Jan 26, 2008 | 2008 | January, Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine, Education, Gastrointestinal
David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN The population of the microbiota of the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract is widely diverse and complex, with a high population density. All major groups of organisms are represented. While predominately bacteria, a variety of...
