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Transgender Healthcare

Transgender Healthcare

Angela Carter, ND Primum Non Nocere There are an estimated 1.4 million transgender people in the US.1 Every year on November 11th, this community observes Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual memorial for the transgender people who have been killed or committed...

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Innovative Referral Strategies

Three Ways to Get More Referrals James Maskell Without a doubt, referrals are the quickest and most effective way to grow your practice and, in fact, this strategy probably holds for any business. Have you noticed how much more at ease, compliant, and excited referred...

Medical Freedom: Part 2

Sussanna C. Czeranko, ND, BBE For 30 years we have looked on; we have expected help from the Legislatures, the Federal Government, the administration of the cities in which we live, from the common sense of the American people and nothing good has been done for us....

Sermorelin Therapy—Antiage or Rage?

Interview With Allison Novins, ND, and Tom Perls, MD Mark Swanson, ND This month’s Expert Report focuses on antiaging medicine and interviews Allison Novins, ND, director of the Snohomish Naturopathic Clinic, Snohomish, Washington. She is a naturopathic specialist in...

Dubito Ergo Sum

Let Us Doubt Our Ever-Transforming Naturopathic Medical Education Model David Schleich, PhD   Modris Eksteins (2012) argues in his recent book, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, that we are no longer sure of anything. While...

Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle

Ethnographic Case Study for Eugeria, Health, and Longevity Artemis Morris, ND, LAc   It is well known that the Mediterranean area is home to a large percentage of people who are not only surviving to but thriving into their 80s and beyond. According to a review...

Ayurvedic Approaches to Prevent and Manage Alzheimer Disease

Rasayana herbs, sattvic food choices, and panchakram therapies Virender Sodhi, MD (Ayurveda), ND Teresa Goldsmith, ND, AWP Alzheimer disease (AD) is a neuro-degenerative disease that affects more than 4 million Americans.1  It is considered an irreversible disorder...

May 2012 | Dermatology and Anti-Aging Medicine

Treating PCOS Acne: from the Inside Out.............................>> cover Stacey Shillington, ND Aesthetic Use for Platelet-Rich Plasma: An Innovative Addition to the Clinical Toolbox.................... bottom of cover  Michael Rahman, BSC, ND Beyond...

Atopic Dermatitis: A Patient Hits Her Threshold

Debbie Whittington, ND SG is a 55-year-old postmenopausal woman who initially came to my office in May 2011 for consultation about a severely itchy rash. The itching had started on the hands and had progressed during the month to the forearms, flexure surfaces of the...

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Notes from the Field #33 

Notes from the Field #33 

June 2022  JARED L. ZEFF, ND, VNMI, LAC  The following is not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the field. It’s...

Addressing Long COVID 

Addressing Long COVID 

Naturopathic Strategies for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms  YASAMAN TASALLOTI, ND  Abstract Long COVID presents with persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbances, and depression, largely driven by chronic inflammation,...

“Hysterical” Chest Spasm 

“Hysterical” Chest Spasm 

Suspected Conversion Disorder Treated by Homeopathy  IAN SPOHN, ND  Conversion disorder is a conventional psychiatric diagnosis, a rare example where Western medicine acknowledges the mind-body link. Also known as functional neurological symptom disorder,...

A Hard Day’s Night 

A Hard Day’s Night 

Circadian Disruption & Medical School  FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog. It’s been a hard day’s night; I should be sleeping like a log.”  So sang John Lennon on the title song to the Beatles...

Immune System’s Memory for Viruses

Node Smith, ND When a virus enters the body, it is picked up by certain cells of the immune system. They transport the virus to the lymph nodes where they present its fragments, known as antigens, to CD8+ T cells responsible control of viral infections. Each of these...

Microbiota Important for Plants to Get the Nutrients They Need, Too

Node Smith, ND In nature, healthy plants are awash with bacteria and other microbes, mostly deriving from the soil they grow in. This community of microbes, termed the plant microbiota, is essential for optimal plant growth and protects plants from the harmful effects...

A Naturopathic Approach to DM- Part 2

JAMES SENSENIG, ND  MONA MORSTEIN, ND, DHANP  This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital Conversation. The program is hosted by...

NK Immunological Cells May Have Memory

Node Smith, ND Good news for the human immune system: researchers from MedUni Vienna's Departments of Dermatology and Surgery have managed to ascribe an immunological memory function to a subset of cytotoxic NK cells, which have hitherto been regarded as...

Could Our Fat Have Immunological Function?

Node Smith, ND Droplets of fat inside our cells are helping the body's own defense system fight back against infection, University of Queensland researchers have discovered. The international collaboration between UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers...

Treating Chronic Pain: Reasons to Use a Top-Down System

Naturopathic Perspective  MARK HEISIG, ND  Pain is an interesting phenomenon within the brain and as a part of the human experience. And it's important to emphasize the human "experience" component, because pain is just that – an experience....

Shortest Time Measured: Zeptoseconds

Node Smith, ND In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured...

NK Immunological Cells May Have Memory

Node Smith, ND Good news for the human immune system: researchers from MedUni Vienna's Departments of Dermatology and Surgery have managed to ascribe an immunological memory function to a subset of cytotoxic NK cells, which have hitherto been regarded as...

Could Our Fat Have Immunological Function?

Node Smith, ND Droplets of fat inside our cells are helping the body's own defense system fight back against infection, University of Queensland researchers have discovered. The international collaboration between UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers...

Treating Chronic Pain: Reasons to Use a Top-Down System

Naturopathic Perspective  MARK HEISIG, ND  Pain is an interesting phenomenon within the brain and as a part of the human experience. And it's important to emphasize the human "experience" component, because pain is just that – an experience....

Shortest Time Measured: Zeptoseconds

Node Smith, ND In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured...

Mechanism of Exercise’s Effect on Cancer

Node Smith, ND People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation of why exercise helps slow down cancer growth in mice: Physical activity...

Nobel Prize in Physics: Black Holes

Node Smith, ND The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with one half to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK, "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity"...

Emotions May Leave a Lasting Smell

Node Smith, ND Unhealthy behaviors trigger moral judgments that are similar to the basic emotions that contribute to our ability to survive. Two different hypotheses are to be found in the current scientific literature as to the identity of these emotions. Some...

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Why I became a Naturopathic Doctor

Samantha Pryor, ND. As a young child I had a very inquisitive mind. My parents used that trick, go ask your mom or go ask your dad, on me when they would tire of answering how and why questions. So, I am sure you can imagine, that lead me to become a bookworm since...