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Genetic Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Baylor College of Medicine- The brain has a natural protective mechanism against Alzheimer's disease, and researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating institutions have discovered that gene...

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Ketamine for Alcoholism

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From The University of Exeter- People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The Ketamine for reduction...

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Blueprint for Expansion: The Right Plan at the Right Time

Blueprint for Expansion: The Right Plan at the Right Time

David J. Schleich, PhD Education Building the profession is a many layered enterprise, with education at the core. As the second decade of a new century zooms toward the third, we are increasingly finding our place in the mainstream higher education sector. National...

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Hydrotherapy Protocols for Sleep Disorders

Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE In the United States the neutral bath is rather new. Most people have never even heard of it. -Ferrin, 1923, p. 317 The neutral bath is more efficient than all the agents known to pharmacy. -L. McKie, 1917, p. 44 In insomnia there is...

The Chitari Foundation: A Best of All Worlds Approach to Healthcare

Satya Ambrose, LAc, ND The Chitari Foundation envisions establishing hospitals and clinics that will provide inpatient and outpatient services, as well as medical research and education. These centers will provide a foundation where all medical modalities collaborate...

Integrative Medicine: What, Me Worry?

David Schleich, PhD The jury is still out in some quarters about whether we should be seriously concerned. There are those who contend that there are ways to avoid and even limit allopathic co-opting of naturopathic modalities and education. Several ND friends...

Why Naturopathic Doctors Need to use Google+

Practice Building James Maskell Have you heard a lot of people telling you to embrace social media? If you have been reading this column on NDNR for the last 18 months, you have heard us endorsing it. How is it working for you? Are you building a community on...

February 2012 | Geriatrics

Commonly Presenting Illnesses in the Elderly......................>> cover Thomas A. Kruzel, ND Older Adults Present Opportunity....................................>> bottom of cover Melissa Coats, ND A Geriatric Perspective on Type 2...

Recalcitrant Bilateral Osteoarthritis

Case Study of a 63-Year-Old Man Bryan Rade, ND HH, a 63-year-old man, presented to the office with a 2-year history of worsening bilateral, radiographically confirmed, osteoarthritis (OA) of the thumbs. The pain had a rapid onset over a 6-month period to an intensity...

Commonly Presenting Illnesses in the Elderly

Immobility and Disease Thomas A. Kruzel, ND As the population ages, the demand for medical services will increase as the elderly population in general experiences greater morbidity associated with the aging process. Consider that with the recent economic crises and...

Protecting Our Patients from Elder Abuse

Looking out for our Patients’ Health Helen C. Healy, ND Looking out for our patients’ health and welfare comes naturally to those of us who have taken the Naturopathic Oath at graduation. We are fortunate to have more time to spend with our patients than most other...

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Each Neuron Computes Movement Signals autonomously, and as a Whole

From Technion-Israel Institute of Technology From the moment we are born, and even before that, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. We move our eyes to see. We wiggle, we walk, we gesture, we...

Could Being ‘Over-Confident’ be Detrimental to Health?

From University of Vienna Older people who overestimate their health go to the doctor less often. This can have serious consequences for their health, for example, when illnesses are detected too late. By contrast, people who think they are sicker than they actually...

Taking Antibiotics Could be Detrimental to Athletes

From University of California - Riverside New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes' motivation and endurance. The UC Riverside-led mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor separating athletes from couch...

Supplements for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

From NIH/National Eye Institute The Age-Related Eye Disease Studies (AREDS and AREDS2) established that dietary supplements can slow progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in older Americans. In a new report,...

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...

Managing Stress & Mood Disorders

ALYSSA DIRIENZO, ND  Stress and anxiety are ubiquitous these days. Especially now – with the copious stressors associated with this pandemic, such as job loss, working from home, home-schooling, and now racial injustice as...

Managing Stress & Mood Disorders

ALYSSA DIRIENZO, ND  Stress and anxiety are ubiquitous these days. Especially now – with the copious stressors associated with this pandemic, such as job loss, working from home, home-schooling, and now racial injustice as...

The Role of Glutamine in Chlamydial Infection

Node Smith, ND Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only survive if they enter the cells. This is the only place where they find the necessary metabolites for their reproduction. And this happens in a relatively simple way: the...

Stroke More Deadly for Those of African Descent

Node Smith, ND African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent, yet there has been little investigation of if and how genetic variants contribute to their elevated stroke risk. Until now. The largest analysis of...

How do Phages Kill Bacterial Superbugs?

Node Smith, ND A research collaboration involving Monash University has made an exciting discovery that may eventually lead to targeted treatments to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections, one of the greatest threats to global health. An exciting discovery that...

“Inactive” Ingredients in Medicine May be Biologically Active

Node Smith, ND Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs -- such as dyes and preservatives -- may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study by researchers from the UC San Francisco...

Humans are Optimists for Most of Life

Node Smith, ND Is middle age really the "golden age" when people are the most optimistic in life? Researchers from Michigan State University led the largest study of its kind to determine how optimistic people are in life and when, as well as how major life events...

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