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AHPA Leads Legislative Response to Protect Herbal Tinctures in New Hampshire
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is leading a coordinated industry response to protect the sale of alcohol-based herbal tinctures and liquid extracts in New Hampshire. The issue began when a concerned AHPA member reported that the New Hampshire Liquor...
Brazilian Copper Chelation Study Puts Numbers Behind What We’ve Been Testing For
A new compound reduced hippocampal inflammation and improved memory in Alzheimer's model rats A research team in Brazil has published animal data showing a copper chelating compound can cross the blood brain barrier, pull copper out of beta amyloid plaques, and...
A Publisher’s Warning: The Pediatric Cases That Cross My Desk 20 Years Later
Razi Ann Berry, Publisher When we started publishing cases in the Journal of Applied Naturopathic Medicine (formerly NDNR), the bulk of pediatric cases were mild: ear infections, upper respiratory infections, rashes, food allergies. Parents who brought their...
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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...
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August 2011 | Endocrinolgy
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....
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...
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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,...
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Some Herbal Considerations
Robin DiPasqualey, ND In 1923, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded for the discovery of insulin, given to Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard, who shared the prize with 2 other members of their research team, James Bartram Collip and Charles Herbert...
Pluriglandular Treatment of Endometrial Dysfunction: Strengthening Corresponding Organs to Restore Balance
Cheryl M. Deroin, NMD The study of endocrinology began as early as the study of medicine. References to endocrinology have been found in Sanskrit writings and in Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman medicine. Hippocrates considered many diseases a result of various...
Carbon Dioxide- The Missing Link: Taking a Closer Look at the Connection Between Carbon Dioxide and Stress
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE As many NDs can attest, the sympathetic nervous systems of their patients are busy adapting to the chronic stressors in contemporary Western culture. Any new natural approaches to deal with this challenge are of strong interest to us. That...
A Model for Naturopathic Brand Development
Over the last month we have had the pleasure of spending some time with possibly the world’s best known naturopath, Dr. Peter D’Adamo, and his lovely wife Martha. The D’Adamos visited Revive’s headquarters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is just a hop, skip and a...
Primary Raynaud Phenomenon
Case Study of a 42-year-old Ironwoman with Daily Raynaud Disease Steven Sandberg-Lewis, ND, DHANP Raynaud disease (primary Raynaud phenomenon), named after medical student Maurice Raynaud in 1862, manifests as recurrent vasospasm of the fingers and toes. Raynaud...