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Epigenetics: Growing Up in a Toxic World – Part 2

CHRIS D. MELETIS, ND  Abstract In Part II of this series on pediatric epigenetics, Dr. Chris Meletis explores how modern environmental exposures—including stress, sedentary lifestyles, EMFs, and widespread toxins—can lead to harmful epigenetic modifications that...

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Immune Function & Competence: Gut Microbial Influences

MICHELLE MADDUX, ND  Abstract This article reviews the critical role of the gut microbiome in immune system development, barrier integrity, and regulation of inflammatory and autoimmune responses. It highlights mechanisms such as short-chain fatty acid...

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Poverty Correlates to Smaller Brain Areas

NODE SMITH, ND Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between...

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Tick Tubes: Stopping Lyme in Its Tracks

JACOB SCHOR, ND, FABNO  This past winter, my wife and I saved all the cardboard tubes at the core of toilet paper and paper towel rolls. Today (early March), I will use them to make “tick tubes.” Our nearest neighbor, a...

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Vitamin D & Visual Disturbances: A Case Study

Vitamin D & Visual Disturbances: A Case Study

Nadia Ciuha, ND Sudden visual disturbances and partial loss of vision are usually quite disabling symptoms that make an affected individual seek prompt medical care. In most cases of sudden vision loss, head/eye trauma, or an autoimmune neurologic condition (such as...

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NCNM Awards Dr. Betty Radelet Inaugural Living Legend Award

First Female Graduate Paved the Way for Future Naturopathic Physicians PORTLAND, Ore. (Dec. 9, 2010) — Betty Jo Radelet, DC, ND, of Beaverton received the inaugural Living Legend award from the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) and the Oregon Association of...

NCNM Awards Dr. Kenneth D. Peterson Inaugural Living Legend Award

Recognized as Oregon’s Longest Continuously Practicing Naturopath PORTLAND, Ore. (Dec. 9, 2010) — Kenneth D. Peterson, DC, ND, of Hermiston received the inaugural Living Legend award from the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) and the Oregon Association of...

“THERE’S A SUPPLEMENT FOR THAT”

“THERE’S A SUPPLEMENT FOR THAT” DOUGLAS LABORATORIES INTRODUCES NEW iPHONE PRODUCT CATALOG APP Now Available As A Free Download PITTSBURGH, PA, November 24, 2010 – Douglas Laboratories, a worldwide leader in the nutritional supplement industry, announces the launch of...

Breakthrough in Omega-3

Scientists in France have developed a revolutionary new vectorization process that uses whole food from North Atlantic salmon to produce an Omega-3 supplement that is up to 50 times more absorbable than fish oils. Using no heat, pressure, or chemical solvents in the...

The Kneipp Cure

Sussanna Czeranko, ND By pouring water on the patient a quicker reaction is brought on than by bathing; pouring was Father Kneipp’s special method. Bauergmund 1908, 71 ‘The Kneipp Cure’ is one of these therapeutic innovations that, starting with an obscure priest in...

PANDAS: An Immune-Mediated Mental Illness

Steven Rondeau NMD BCIA-EEG PANDAS is an acronym for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections. It refers to a subset of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or a tic disorder who have presenting or...

December 2010 | Bacterial & Viral Infections

NATUROPATHIC PERSPECTIVE The Need for Foundation: A New Practitioner Perspective Craig T. Fasullo, ND Discusses the establishment of a clinical context and the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine textbook project. DOCERE Echinacea: A Brief History of Use and Research...

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Preconception and Pregnancy: A Nutritional Guide for Clinicians 

Preconception and Pregnancy: A Nutritional Guide for Clinicians 

ERICA NIKIFORUK, ND, RAC  While it is generally understood that maternal preconception health and nutrition is important, the opportunity to use the perinatal period for programming a child’s future health and disease risk is becoming increasingly evident. While...

Hydrotherapy- Part 4

Hydrotherapy- Part 4

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 through...

Steroidogenesis: Looking Beyond Estrogen and Testosterone 

Steroidogenesis: Looking Beyond Estrogen and Testosterone 

CHRIS D. MELETIS, ND  Abstract Steroidogenesis extends far beyond the production of estrogen and testosterone, encompassing a complex interplay of upstream and downstream hormones critical to endocrine and mitochondrial health. This article explores the clinical...

In Memoriam: Jim Sensenig, ND

NDNR is deeply saddened to share the news of the untimely passing of Dr. Jim Sensenig. Dr. Sensenig, who passed away over the weekend in his sleep, was a founder and one of the original board members of the AANP, along with several other naturopathic organizations,...

Magnetic Stimulation May Improve OCD Symptoms

Node Smith, ND Researchers have found that focusing powerful non-invasive magnet stimulation on a specific brain area can improve the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This opens the way to treat the large minority of sufferers who do not respond to...

Suicide Rates are Increasing in America, Especially in Rural Areas

Node Smith, ND Suicide is becoming more common in America, an increase most pronounced in rural areas, new research has found. Suicide surges in rural America The study, which appears online in the journal JAMA Network Open, also highlights a cluster of factors,...

Antidepressants Have a Major Effect on Gut Flora

Node Smith, ND A new study in mice led by UCLA biologists strongly suggests that serotonin and drugs that target serotonin, such as antidepressants, can have a major effect on the gut's microbiota -- the 100 trillion or so bacteria and other microbes that live in the...

Could Wearable Alcohol Biosensors be a Wave of the Future?

Node Smith, ND Alcohol biosensors suitable for use by everyday drinkers are a step closer, following a positive study of prototype devices published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Keeping track of alcohol intake can be challenging,...

Genetic Expression Changes with Psychopathy

Node Smith, ND The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal and is also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows. The researchers used stem cell technology to analyze the expression of genes and proteins in the brain cells...

Naturopathic Medical Education: Contrary Imperatives

Education David J. Schleich, PhD What distinguishes the medicine of the past twenty-five years is not that its practitioners are equipped with an arsenal of antibiotics and antiseptics, but that they are furnished with a comprehensive and unprecedented understanding...

Castor Oil: Magic or Myth (Part 2)

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Marisol Teijeiro, ND Like any good legend, the story of castor oil throughout the ages is one of ebbing and flowing, but mainly one of adapting into the common medical practices of the time. From the glory years in ethnobotanical and cultural...

Notes from the Field: August, 2019

Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VMNI, LAc The following is a not an article prepared for a medical journal. Rather, this is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the field. It’s not meant to be a peer-reviewed...

Could Wearable Alcohol Biosensors be a Wave of the Future?

Node Smith, ND Alcohol biosensors suitable for use by everyday drinkers are a step closer, following a positive study of prototype devices published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Keeping track of alcohol intake can be challenging,...

Genetic Expression Changes with Psychopathy

Node Smith, ND The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal and is also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows. The researchers used stem cell technology to analyze the expression of genes and proteins in the brain cells...

Naturopathic Medical Education: Contrary Imperatives

Education David J. Schleich, PhD What distinguishes the medicine of the past twenty-five years is not that its practitioners are equipped with an arsenal of antibiotics and antiseptics, but that they are furnished with a comprehensive and unprecedented understanding...

Castor Oil: Magic or Myth (Part 2)

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Marisol Teijeiro, ND Like any good legend, the story of castor oil throughout the ages is one of ebbing and flowing, but mainly one of adapting into the common medical practices of the time. From the glory years in ethnobotanical and cultural...

Notes from the Field: August, 2019

Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VMNI, LAc The following is a not an article prepared for a medical journal. Rather, this is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the field. It’s not meant to be a peer-reviewed...

Beyond Saw Palmetto: The Complexity of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Tolle Totum Eric Yarnell, ND, RH (AHG) The common condition benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) remains relatively poorly understood clinically. There is much room for improvement, including a long way to go beyond just providing Serenoa repens (saw palmetto) and...

CaP Update 2019: Is MRI Imaging Replacing Biopsy?

Docere Phranq D. Tamburri, NMD Over the past decade, as has been documented in my previous NDNR articles, my practice has specialized in the proper use of prostate imaging for concerned patients with an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) who want to avoid a...

Male Infertility: Successful Results Achieved By Antioxidants

Tolle Causam Chris D. Meletis, ND According to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology, infertility is a reproductive system disease characterized by failure to achieve clinical pregnancy after 1...

Homeopathy in Oncological Care

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Kalyan Gaddam, ND Todd A. Born, ND Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.1 Conventional cancer treatment options – including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery – are stressful and often result in the patient (and...

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