Volume 7 Issue 8 Understanding and Treating Autoimmune Hashimoto Thyroiditis Jan Seibert, ND, and Natalie Gustafson, PHARMD MTHFR Case Studies of Miracles, Mistakes, and a Thousand Pens Wisdom, Tinctures, and Culinary Inspirations Jared M....
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MTHFR: Case Studies of Miracles, Mistakes, and a Thousand Pens
Jared M. Skowron, ND Miracles Lori was on the verge of tears. Her son Nathan was 9 years old, and they had been to see psychiatrists, neurologists, counselors, and specialists. The problem was that nobody had an answer. (This story starts the same for so many of our...
Understanding and Treating the Imbalanced Neuroendoimmune System of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Jan Seibert, ND, and Natalie Gustafson, PharmD During a 2004 residency in a Wisconsin clinic, middle-aged women carrying a book written by Suzanne Somers entitled The Sexy Years began showing up in large numbers wanting bioidentical hormones. The supervising physician...
Glioma? Drink More Coffee
Jacob Schor, ND Patients often have an idea in their heads of what a healthier lifestyle is, and it is our job as their ND to burst the bubble and set them straight. I thought of this the other day as a 56-year-old man explained to me that he was feeling “crappy”...
Lessons From the South Pole: Part 2
David Schleich, PhD Keeping the Philosophy on the Sled This is the second of two parts. Part 1 was published in the July 2011 edition of NDNR. Using skis and dogsleds for transportation, Amundsen and his men made meticulous preparations, just as Scott did, with...
Achieving Balance in the Thyroid
Alan Christianson, NMD I loved naturopathic medical school. Learning new ideas and exotic treatments was like exploring a strange new country. Perhaps, it was being in the first class of a brand-new school. Maybe, it was the spirit of curiosity among my classmates....
Early NDs Understood the Power of Mother Nature
Nature Was Central to the Philosophy of the First NDs Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Most of the sanitarium patients do not come to us for advice and help until they are ‘down and out’—until there is nothing more to spoil....
Elucidating Estrogen Receptor Sites
Ronald Steriti, ND, PhD Estrogen effects are mediated through 2 different estrogen receptors (ERs), ERα and ERβ.1,2 Both receptors are widely expressed in various tissue types. However, there are some notable differences in their expression patterns.3-5 Estrogen...
Hot Stuff
Joseph Kellerstein, ND Homeopathy has been regarded in some naturopathic circles as being “too esoteric.” That is another name for airy-fairy or not good enough for us hard-headed scientists who need some evidence-based firmness to our prescriptions. This is nonsense....
The Meaning of Yin in Naturopathic Medicine
Pamela Sky Jeanne, ND Yin and yang are less familiar in Western cultures and Western allopathic medicine but are commonly known in many Eastern philosophies, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, and represent a beautiful concept of how life flows. In Chinese society,...