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Endocannabinoid Physiology & ECS Deficiency Syndrome

Review of Endocannabinoid System (ECS) physiology and endocannabinoid communications • Analyze the significance of the ECS as the master switchboard for all other systems • Connecting chronic conditions to ECS Deficiency Syndrome • Explore links between the...

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Why I Became a Naturopathic Doctor

I never imagined my quest to fulfill my learners permit hours as fast as possible would lead me to my future career.  After all, I was fifteen and the only vision I had for my future was the freedom of having my license and then maybe becoming a pro snowboarder...

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Adventurous Play May Lower Mental Health Issues in Children

From University of Exeter Children who spend more time playing adventurously have lower symptoms of anxiety and depression, and were happier over the first Covid-19 lockdown, according to new research. A study led by the University of Exeter asked parents how often...

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Science Doesn’t Sell Pleasurable Products

From Ohio State University People don't want science anywhere near their delicious chocolate chip cookies. But they're happy to have science create body wash that fights odor-causing bacteria. In a series of 10 studies, researchers found that people don't like science...

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Young Men: Diet Helps Depressive Symptoms

From University of Technology Sydney Young men with a poor diet saw a significant improvement in their symptoms of depression when they switched to a healthy Mediterranean diet, a new study shows. Depression is a common mental health condition that affects...

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Similar Thought: My Aching Back

Similar Thought: My Aching Back

Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Frank is a hard working plumber. He was coming up on 3 months of unbearable back pain when I met him. After 6 weeks of chiropractic therapy and steroid medication, he was really no further ahead. His backache is related to a work related...

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Older Adults Present Opportunity

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Melissa Coats, ND Older adults, defined typically as those who are 65 years or older, are one of the fastest growing populations in the United States today. The US Census Bureau states: In this century, the rate of growth of the elderly...

Effects of Falls in the Elderly

Protocols to prevent devastating falls Holly Lucille, ND, RN As an ND, one of the principles guiding my scope of practice and thought process is that of “Prevention is the cure.” It is somewhat of a backdrop principle, always present, very subtle, yet difficult to...

Melatonin Chronosynergy, Women, and Aging

The Expert Report Interview with Paula Witt-Enderby, PhD and Judith Balk, MPH, MD Mark Swanson, ND The concept of achieving therapeutic “synergy” is fundamental to the understanding of healing in a functional-naturopathic medicine practice. I have often postulated...

Student Debt: Another Monster Under the Bed

David Schleich, PhD Back in mid-September, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that $33 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds would be available to train “health professionals.”...

A Geriatric Perspective on Type 2 Diabetes

Lucy Rojo, ND; Michael Almaraz, CCHT, NLP, RP In the United States, there are 23.6 million people with diabetes mellitus. Of 17.9 million being diagnosed, 90% have type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The epidemic of T2DM comes with significant burdens on healthcare and...

A Wrong Can Make A Right

Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Rose is a frequent visitor to the office. For some years, she has come in with her kids. Rose is very health conscious and has developed a strong religious foundation to her life. I think her use of spirituality to outreach into the...

Botanical Pearls for Geriatric Patients

Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) I asked several nurse practitioner colleagues who work solely with the geriatric population about what the top health concerns were for their patients. They cited bowel issues (constipation and diarrhea), urinary incontinence and urinary...

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Ulcerative Colitis

Mark Davis, ND Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is also known as human probiotic infusion, fecal transplant, fecal bacteriotherapy, fecal slurry, and gut flora rehabilitation and has been humorously referred to as “transpoosion.” The procedure consists of...

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Contracting Bird Flu Without Contact?

A man with no known contact with a bird flu infected animal nevertheless contracted bird flu. But let’s not panic: “This could still be a one-off case…

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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