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Hydrotherapy- Part 2

JAMES SENSENIG, ND LETITIA DICK-KRONENBERG, ND, VNMI   This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy...

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Holographic Camera Can See Inside Skull?

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University-- Northwestern University researchers have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen -- including around corners and through scattering media, such as skin, fog or potentially even the human...

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How the Diet Affects Immune System: Mice Model Study

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Harvard Medical School- The cliché "you are what you eat" has been used for hundreds of years to illustrate the link between diet and health. Now, an international team of researchers has found the molecular proof of this concept,...

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Endocannabinoids Increased from Exercise

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From University of Nottingham- Exercise increases the body's own cannabis-like substances, which in turn helps reduce inflammation and could potentially help treat certain conditions such as arthritis, cancer and heart disease. In a new study,...

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Making Sustainable Jet Fuel – Wow!

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)- Scientists at ETH Zurich have built a plant that can produce carbon-neutral liquid fuels from sunlight and air. The next goal will be to take this technology to industrial scale and...

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The Top 3 Reasons We Fail In Business

The Top 3 Reasons We Fail In Business

Practice Building   Andrea Maxim, ND I want to share the top 3 reasons why we fail in business (and in our lives)… Reason #1 – Not Taking Responsibility for Our Lives Just like you expect your patients to take responsibility for their health, you also need to...

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Traveler’s Diarrhea: Prevention and Treatment

Jillian Stansbury, ND Spending half the year in third-world countries for the past 5 years has put traveler’s diarrhea high on my radar. Statistics have shown that traveler’s diarrhea is almost part of the price of traveling to exotic locales and is somewhat hard to...

Conversations about Professionalism with a Few of Our New NDs

David Schleich, PhD We routinely conduct focus groups with recent ND graduates. There are numerous topics that emerge, and among the favorites is the “idea of a profession” as this manifests in the various stages of “regulation” such as registration, certification and...

All Plugged Up

Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Vanessa is a pleasant easygoing 33-year-old secretary. She first presented early in 2000 complaining of a very severe irritable bowel syndrome. It had been ongoing for about 3 years at the time. Generally, the pain will hit in the morning....

Technology Update- InteractionsGuide Web Application

Stacie Deyglio, ND Technology Update: InteractionsGuide Web Application The InteractionsGuide (http://medicineworks.com/interactionsguide%E2%84%A2-herb-nutrient-and-drug-interactions-web-application) is an Internet-based application providing access to articles and...

The 10 Commandments of the Kneipp Water Treatment

Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE For the various applications of water tend to remove the roots of the disease; they are able: to dissolve the morbid matters in the blood, to evacuate what is dissolved, to make the cleansed blood circulate rightly again, finally to harden...

Gastroenterology Case Studies

Steven A. Bailey, ND The following case studies represent simple principles of naturopathic medicine resulting in significant improvements in the quality of 2 patients’ lives. Both patients are exceptionally grateful for the outcomes and have given permission to use...

Chlorosis or Poverty of the Blood

Chlorosis or Poverty of the Blood Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE   The chlorosis of young girls has become a fashion.  There is scarcely one family with grown up daughters of which not one, at least, is suffering of chlorosis.   Benedict Lust, (1908, p. 6)...

Bastyr University's Winter Quarter Begins with a 'Brrr!'

Clear skies, cold temperatures for 13th Annual “Splash and Dash” Kenmore, Washington (January 4, 2011) — More than 20 members of the Bastyr University community ushered in winter quarter on Monday, January 3rd with a chilly plunge into Lake Washington. At...

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Mood of Doctor Can Impact Likelihood of Getting Sued

From University of Melbourne Australian doctors are more likely to be sued for medical negligence if they are unhappy, overworked, working in rural areas, or if they have suffered a recent injury or illness according to new research from the University of Melbourne....

An Assessment Tool for Elderly Driver Safety

From North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University have developed a straightforward questionnaire that older adults can use to assess their "attentional performance" during driving. In proof-of-concept...

New From of Diabetes – Malnutrition-Related

From Albert Einstein College of Medicine A mysterious form of diabetes known as malnutrition-related diabetes afflicts tens of millions of people in Asian and sub-Saharan African countries. Its victims -- mainly thin and impoverished adolescents and young adults --...

Why I Became a Naturopathic Doctor

Katie Strobe, N.D. Night after night, I would stare blankly at my medical school application personal essay. I kept reflecting on my life story and  I wanted to become an allopathic doctor, and something just didn't click. I was stuck. After endless contemplation, it...

COVID-19 Less Severe in Children

Node Smith, ND As outbreaks of COVID-19 disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continue worldwide, there's reassuring evidence that children have fewer symptoms and less severe disease. That's among the insights...

COVID-19 Not Transmitted to Fetus, Study Suggests

Node Smith, ND Finally, some good news has emerged about the novel coronavirus that has spread to about 50 countries across the world. Chinese professors report in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics that it doesn't appear that the viral infection is transmittable...

Melatonin SR

Bio-Tech Pharmacal, Inc. in Fayetteville, AR is pleased to announce the release of another new and exciting product! Melatonin SR 2mg Melatonin is a natural hormone secreted by the pineal gland of the human brain.  It is important for maintaining normal circadian...

Puffer Fish Toxin to Replace Opioids?

Node Smith, ND From Wiley In Japan, puffer fish is considered a delicacy, but the tickle to the taste buds comes with a tickle to the nerves: fugu contains tetrodotoxin, a strong nerve toxin. In low doses, tetrodotoxin is shown in clinical trials to be a replacement...

A Second Patient Cured From HIV?

Node Smith, ND A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene, finds that there was no active viral infection in the patient's blood 30 months after they stopped anti-retroviral therapy,...

Jigsaw Health Partners with Emerson Ecologies

Jigsaw Health Brings Their Full Catalog of Premium Products to the Wellness Community Scottsdale, Ariz.  March 16, 2020 -- Emerson Ecologics, LLC, a leading supplier of nutritional supplements to healthcare practitioners, today announces its’ partnership with...

Breathing is Less Rhythmical in the Brain Than You May Think

Node Smith, ND Breathing propels everything we do -- so its rhythm must be orchestrated by our brain cells, right? Wrong. Every breath we take… Every breath we take arises from a disorderly group of neurons -- each like a soloist belting out its song before uniting as...

Modeling Study on Coronavirus Spread

Node Smith, ND New modelling research, published in The Lancet, estimates that up to 75,800 individuals in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as of January 25, 2020. Estimates of 75,800 individuals in the Chinese...

A Second Patient Cured From HIV?

Node Smith, ND A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene, finds that there was no active viral infection in the patient's blood 30 months after they stopped anti-retroviral therapy,...

Jigsaw Health Partners with Emerson Ecologies

Jigsaw Health Brings Their Full Catalog of Premium Products to the Wellness Community Scottsdale, Ariz.  March 16, 2020 -- Emerson Ecologics, LLC, a leading supplier of nutritional supplements to healthcare practitioners, today announces its’ partnership with...

Breathing is Less Rhythmical in the Brain Than You May Think

Node Smith, ND Breathing propels everything we do -- so its rhythm must be orchestrated by our brain cells, right? Wrong. Every breath we take… Every breath we take arises from a disorderly group of neurons -- each like a soloist belting out its song before uniting as...

Modeling Study on Coronavirus Spread

Node Smith, ND New modelling research, published in The Lancet, estimates that up to 75,800 individuals in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as of January 25, 2020. Estimates of 75,800 individuals in the Chinese...

NIAID Discussion of Coronavirus

Node Smith, ND The new cluster of viral pneumonia cases originating in Wuhan, China, marks the third time in 20 years that a member of the large family of coronaviruses (CoVs) has jumped from animals to humans and sparked an outbreak. In a new JAMA Viewpoint essay,...

Notes from the Field: December, 2019

Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is a 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...

Dialing Up the Vis, Part 3

The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, ND This is the third part of a 3-part article from The Vital Conversation that took place on June 22, 2016. It is part of a new series of articles in NDNR that is based on transcripts of conversations that occurred on Wednesdays...

Public Sector Higher Ed: Slippery Slope or the Next Best Path?

Education David J. Schleich, PhD  We’ve been sparring with the biomedicine industry all along the professional formation continuum (education, research, licensing) for a very long time. We have also been joining some aspects of the mainstream’s strategies for a...

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)

Regenerative Medicine Fred G. Arnold, DC, NMD Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) is the third topic in my series about regenerative medicine treatments for painful musculoskeletal conditions. This regenerative injection procedure was originally used in 1987 following...

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