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Rise in Cancer Deaths to 10 Million

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation- Cancer deaths rose to 10 million and new cases jumped to over 23 million globally in 2019, according to a new scientific study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the...

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Hormone Health: Support for Breast Cancer Survivors

KAYCIE GRIGEL, ND No matter what specialty you choose, if you see women in your practice, you will see breast cancer survivors. One in every 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.1 Fortunately, many women receive treatment...

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Cannabis and Women’s Health: A History- Part 2

JAKE F. FELICE, ND, LMP  In last month’s issue of NDNR, I reviewed historical accounts that indicated widespread use of cannabis for women’s health throughout ancient China, Egypt and Sumer, Israel/Palestine, and the Middle East, as well as in early European...

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A Model to Predict Lifetime Risk of Heart Failure

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University- Imagine visiting the doctor, answering a few basic questions and getting an on-the-spot estimate of whether you'll experience heart failure in the next 30 years. Such a model now exists, thanks to a new...

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The “Lowe” Down on Thyroid

The Expert Report Interview With Dr John Lowe Mark Swanson, ND This segment of The Expert Report pulls no punches. My interview guest is Dr John Lowe, author of The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia,1 an extraordinary and comprehensive 1100-page text, which I found...

Botanicals for Emotional Illnesses

Perspective From My Studies in Peru Jillian Stansbury, ND This article is a bit “out of the box.” As some readers may be aware, I have been living in Peru for 6 months a year for the past 5 years, studying shamanism and ethnobotany with several indigenous Amazonian...

Adolescent Insomnia

Diagnosis and Treatment Protocols for Sleep Disorders Lisa Watson, ND Insufficient sleep is a common and often chronic condition in adolescence. It is estimated that between 25% and 45% of adolescents in the United States fail to obtain adequate sleep1,2 and that...

Toxicity and Depression

Effects of Depression  Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc Depression affects about 120 million people worldwide, and each year about 6% of men and 9.5% of women experience an episode of depression.1 The World Health Organization2 predicts that depression will become the second...

March 2012 | Anxiety, Depression and Insomnia

Toxicity and Depression.........................>>cover Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc Adolescent Insomnia: Diagnosis and Treatment Protocols for Sleep Disorders...............................>> bottom of cover Lisa Watson, ND How to Make or Break the Outcome...

How to Make or Break the Outcome of Borderline Personality Disorder

Tara Peyman, ND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most challenging conditions to manage in practice. Some physicians believe that this disorder does not respond well to medical treatment. However, I have found that patients with BPD can experience...

Put More Value Into Running Your Practice

James Maskell One of the most influential people in my life is Seth Godin, writer and entrepreneur. One of his more recent books, Poke the Box is a favorite, as it encourages us all to take initiative to find ways to run our businesses more effectively. As Seth...

Walking a Tightrope

Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND I just got off the phone with a lovely lady whom I had not spoken to for about a year since our previous appointment. The result was so striking to me in the way of a good teaching point that I wanted to share my learning with all of you....

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Cosmology Meets Neuroscience to Map Brain Connections

From Howard Hughes Medical Institute After a career spent probing the mysteries of the universe, a Janelia Research Campus senior scientist is now exploring the mysteries of the human brain and developing new insights into the connections between brain cells....

 Most People Over-Use Inhalers for Asthma

From Queen Mary University of London Asthma is a common lung condition that affects 5.4 million people in the UK and can lead to symptoms such as coughing, wheezing or feeling breathless. Asthma is best controlled by regular use of a corticosteroid inhaler, which...

Genetic Testing Could Indicate Risk of Kidney Disease

From Columbia University Irving Medical Center A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease -- and it works in people of African,...

Regenerating Cardiomyocytes 

From University of Houston Researchers at the University of Houston are reporting a first-of-its-kind technology that not only repairs heart muscle cells in mice but also regenerates them following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction as its medically known....

We Can Train Ourselves to be More Playful

Node Smith, ND Simple exercises can help to make people more playful and consequently feel more satisfied with their lives. This has been revealed in a new study by psychologists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in the journal Applied Psychology:...

“Catastrophizing” Pain Linked to More Sedentary Behavior

Node Smith, ND Chronic pain affects the majority of older adults in the U.S., and getting enough exercise plays a key role in pain management. New research suggests that how people think about their pain can have a significant effect on whether they get enough...

50% Reduction in Earth Seismic Activity From COVID-19 Lockdown

Node Smith, ND The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May 2020. This quiet period is the longest and most pronounced quiet period of seismic noise in recorded history This...

Microbiome’s Role in Dealing with Cancer

Node Smith, ND Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors and how they do it. The discovery may provide a new understanding of why...

New Taste Bud Discovered

Node Smith, ND Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that -- unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes -- are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research team led by Kathryn Medler...

New Prediction Model for COVID-19 Hospitalization

Node Smith, ND Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed and validated a risk prediction model (called a nomogram) that can help physicians predict which patients who have recently tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are at greatest risk...

How has Gluten and Wheat Changed with 120 Years of Breeding?

Node Smith, ND In recent years, the number of people affected by celiac disease, wheat allergy or gluten or wheat sensitivity has risen sharply. But why is this the case? Could it be that modern wheat varieties contain more immunoreactive protein than in the past?...

50% Reduction in Earth Seismic Activity From COVID-19 Lockdown

Node Smith, ND The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May 2020. This quiet period is the longest and most pronounced quiet period of seismic noise in recorded history This...

Microbiome’s Role in Dealing with Cancer

Node Smith, ND Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors and how they do it. The discovery may provide a new understanding of why...

New Taste Bud Discovered

Node Smith, ND Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that -- unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes -- are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research team led by Kathryn Medler...

New Prediction Model for COVID-19 Hospitalization

Node Smith, ND Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed and validated a risk prediction model (called a nomogram) that can help physicians predict which patients who have recently tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are at greatest risk...

How has Gluten and Wheat Changed with 120 Years of Breeding?

Node Smith, ND In recent years, the number of people affected by celiac disease, wheat allergy or gluten or wheat sensitivity has risen sharply. But why is this the case? Could it be that modern wheat varieties contain more immunoreactive protein than in the past?...

Antifungals: A Prudent Perspective – Part 1

LAUREN TESSIER, ND  If you’re like me, you were taught to tread carefully regarding the use of pharmaceutical antimicrobials in practice. After all, our naturopathic education taught us how to approach infections with numerous modalities, antimicrobial herbs...

Onsite, Online, and On-hand

FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  Teaching and learning are 2 sides of a coin that leads to education. That makes it intrinsically a social construct, albeit with objective, discernible activities involved, such as conducting a chemistry lab experiment or...

How to Think Like an ND, Part 3

The Vital Conversation   JAMES SENSENIG, ND JARED L. ZEFF, ND, VNMI, LAC  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...

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