A Naturopathic Answer to Sales One thing that most Naturopathic Doctors tell us is that they don’t want to be ‘pushy’ or ‘salesy’. Certainly, the image that salespeople have in the community at large is not that favorable, and I completely see why every professional,...
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Multifactoral Approach to Treating Lupus
Heidi Weinhold, ND Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disorder in which the body produces autoantibodies (antibodies that attack normal healthy tissue). These autoantibodies can attack the skin, joints, kidney, spleen, or any other organ in the...
Rosmarinic Acid for Allergies
Jillian Stansbury, ND Research is growing regarding the use of rosmarinic acid, a safe and ecologically abundant constituent of common herbs that you probably already know and love. Rosmarinic acid is found in rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis of course, and in many...
Allergies Inherited or Acquired?
Fateh Srajeldin, BSc, ND Allergies are hyperreactive and adverse responses of the body (systemic or total) to a stimulus or multiple stimuli (antigens). These antigens are harmless to most people, but others show hyperreaction when allergens gain access to their body....
Bromelain, Pineapple Extract, and Modern Immunomodulator
Eric R. Secor Jr, ND, MPH, MS, LAc The common pineapple, Ananas comosus, was brought back to Europe from Guadeloupe at the conclusion of the second voyage to the Americas by Columbus in 1493. Its culinary and architectural use slowly spread throughout the continent,...
The Carroll Food Intolerance Evaluation and Its Applications
Letitia Dick-Kronenberg, ND Last August, I treated a young patient named Alyssa. She is 3 years old and is confined to a pediatric wheelchair. Her mother flew with her from Las Vegas, Nevada, to see me in Spokane, Washington. Little Alyssa has a rare genetic disorder...
The Teeth: Guardians of Health
Sussanna Czeranko, ND If you are the enviable possessor of a set of good sound teeth – all your own – then perhaps you do not appreciate your wonderful possession. If you do, you are one of the minority. Edward O. Johnson, 1919, p. 600 Since primitive man has had...
Gluten Rock and Colitis Blues
The Kenny Davin Fine Interview Mark Swanson, ND Like his music, Dr Kenny Davin Fine is a lot of things to a lot of people: medical doctor and researcher, gastroenterologist and nutritional expert, public health servant, Internet medicine pioneer, and singer-songwriter...
The Condition Our Condition Is In : Where Our Curricula Can Take Us
David Schleich, PhD Part One Numerous teachers and scholars in the medical education field believe that their biggest job is to help our interns learn how to integrate communication and clinical reasoning (Mead and Bower). The elements of our curricula, they believe,...
A Long Story- Well, It Is a Long Story!
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Normally, I would want to share with you a cured case so that you might model a thought process that seems to have worked for the cure of a chronic or acute illness. The proper definition for a cure is a lapse of about 1 year before we...