An Interview With Marc Penn, MD, PhD, Cleveland HeartLab Mark Swanson, ND In diagnostic testing circles, Cleveland HeartLab (CHL) is “IT.” Opened in 2010, CHL is a cardiovascular specialty diagnostic laboratory that was spun out of the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland,...
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2012 | October
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Ludwik Fleck and Naturopathic Medicine: Allies in All the Right Places
David Schleich, PhD Since the 1960’s, the influence of Ludwik Fleck has been rekindled, affecting naturopathic medicine along the way. The philosophy of medicine—what Foss (2002), Kuhn (1962), and others (Trenn and Merton, 1979) consider to be an emerging...
New Naturopathic Treatments for Dyslipidemia
Stephen Parcell, ND Although it is tempting to write a lengthy article about all the naturopathic treatments for dyslipidemia, I have been tasked with just talking about the relatively new ones. For the purpose of this article, “new” means there are new data from...
The Case for Creating a Specialty Society of Naturopathic Cardiovascular Medicine
Jeremy Mikolai, ND Martin Milner, ND The time has come for the formation of a naturopathic specialty society in cardiovascular medicine. We assert that forming a naturopathic cardiovascular specialty society (NCss) and board certification is necessary because it will...
From Fixing to Flourishing
Joseph Kellerstein, ND Vanessa is a bright and energetic massage therapist, who has had a history of suppressing her anger. On initial presentation, the conversation focused on her anxiety when driving and on multiple griefs in the previous year and a half. Vanessa...
A Case Study of Endocarditis: Piercing to the Heart
Arcoma L. Gonzalez Lambert, ND A small consequence of urban sprawl is that interesting cases are brought to my doorstep. R.G., a 32-year-old man, was seen with chills, fatigue, and shortness of breath of about 1 week’s duration and was in no apparent distress. He was...
Beyond Hawthorn: Herbs for Cardiovascular Health
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) In the realm of herbal treatment for cardiovascular disease, certainly Crataegus oxyacantha, and other species of hawthorn, is the first plant medicine that comes to mind. Because it is a cardiac tonic, most patients with cardiovascular...
The Clinical Significance of Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol
Cheryl Burdette, ND Various biomarkers are believed to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Some of these include high serum levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglycerides, as well as low serum levels of high-density...
October 2012 | Cardiology/Pulmonology/Opthalmology
Blood Viscosity Earlier, More Accurate Prediction of Cardiovascular Event Risk.........................>> cover Pushpa Larsen, ND New Naturopathic Treatments for Dyslipidemia............................>> bottom of cover Stephen Parcell, ND The Clinical...
Are You the Block in Your Patient Compliance?
Practice Building James Maskell is CEO of Revive NYC Without patient compliance, a Naturopathic physician, no matter how honed their clinical skills, has virtually no chance of helping a patient get well. Whether it be drinking more water, remembering to take their...
The Benefits of Reconnecting With the Earth
Earthing Daniel Chong, ND What are the most basic, fundamental recommendations we can make to our patients when teaching them how to improve their health and prevent disease? Eat well. Exercise. Get more sleep. Sound familiar? That is what I learned in school. Some...
A Whole-Foods Diet for Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Treatment
Dan Carter, ND This discussion will focus on the use of diet for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Where possible, diet will be defined as whole foods, but specific supplements and processed postexercise recovery products may be used as...