Kirsten West, ND Third-year students, it’s time to worry. What will you be doing a year from now? Wondering how to repay your student loans or packing to start an exciting residency? If you’d like it to be the latter or haven’t even given it a thought, now is the time...
Kären van der Veer, ND From the beginning of our naturopathic education we are immersed in the concept of treating the gut as a foundational form of healing intervention. There simply is no getting around the central role that the gastrointestinal (GI) tract plays in...
Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO In patients presenting with allergic symptoms, it is worth paying attention to their sense of humor and to make an assessment as to whether they are ‘laughter deficient.’ Prescribing a routine of regular daily laughter may be helpful in treating...
David Schleich, PHD We continue last month's column regarding research and naturopathic medicine's seeming inclination to support related long-term studies. Accompanying the calls from within the naturopathic profession for the allopathic world to embrace scientific...
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Jennifer is 25 years old and a very philosophically inclined social worker. In fact, she comes from a family whose tradition is discussion and social philosophy, her mother being a university professor. These facts are not obvious when she...
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH(AHG) In our current time, many health concerns being presented to doctors are seemingly linked to the function of the immune system. Some people are challenged with recurrent acute illnesses like colds and flu, where their immune system is not...
Sarah A. LoBisco, ND Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the leading cause of hypothyroidism in the United States.1 It is one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune disorders of the thyroid, among Graves’ disease, trophic thyroiditis, primary myxedema, and...
Emily Chan, ND Taking into account musical, physical, and emotional factors unique to each patient is instrumental in changing the medical approach from reactive to proactive when dealing with autoimmune diseases. Act 1: Music She steps home and notices the...
Sussanna Czeranko, ND Do all of your thinking before you get under the covers. Sleep is too precious to sacrifice for a tangled skein of worry thoughts. Oscar Evertz, 1917, p. 252 Last month we looked at… Before the Sleep How the time before bedtime was spent...
Sociological Effectson Autoimmune Disease: An anthropological perspective Emily Chan, ND Describes how musical, physical and emotional factors play a key role in encouraging a proactive treatment regimen for patients. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Sarah A. Lobisco, ND...
Millie Lytle, ND, MPH As an ND subscribing to the great capacity of preventive medicine, I believe innately that food consumption and mood have a connection. Until a few years ago, possible biological mechanisms were not obvious in the literature. During these years,...