LAURIE MENK OTTO, ND, MPH Allergy is a leading chronic health condition throughout the world and is especially prevalent in westernized societies. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis and asthma in the US population is 7-8% for all...
CHRIS D. MELETIS, ND Autoimmune diseases afflict a considerable portion of the population, with recent numbers indicating that 15.9% of the US population, or 41 million people, suffer from an autoimmune...
NODE SMITH, ND A new systematic review of 65 studies from around the world involves a total of 97,333 health care workers and finds that 1 in 5 have experienced depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Yufei Li, Nathaniel Scherer, and...
KARLY MCMASTER, ND While the standard of care following a diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) is to prescribe a gluten-free diet (GFD), the recommended long-term management and monitoring of the condition is poorly understood. Too often, patients with CD...
WOODSTOCK, IL—The team at Lifestyle Matrix Resource Center is thrilled to welcome Dr. Elroy Vojdani to their panel of Clinical Experts. Dr. Vojdani is the founder of Regenera Medical, a boutique functional medicine practice in Los Angeles, CA. He is also an Institute...
Robert Kachko ND, LAc Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has the historically unique distinction of being the only common chronic disease with no known prevention or cure. This proposition becomes increasingly ominous when considering the rising tide of Alzheimer’s expected to...
Ronald Steriti, ND, PhD The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Albert Einstein Several studies have shown that prayer is associated with positive health effects. For example: A recent study published in Support Care Cancer found that women who...
Jillian Stansbury, ND Plants are living beings. Although most of my articles have focused on the plant-based chemistry and research of botanical medicine in terms of diseases, enzyme systems, antioxidant activities, etc., what first got me interested in botanical...
Tim Shannon, ND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. In addition, more and more cases demonstrate that severe emotional...
David Schleich, PhD Last month’s discussion about chiropractors’ efforts to situate their educational preparation programs in the higher education landscape to achieve professional legitimacy left off around 1960. The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) had...
Adam Prinsen, ND “Physician, heal thyself.” We hear this phrase in school, from colleagues, and even read it in books. What is so important about healing ourselves? This is something I have been reflecting on. I was listening to one of my patients the other day when I...
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Jane was 14 years old. Like any young teen, she wanted to hang out with her friends. She lived in a smaller city some distance from Toronto but had the opportunity to get on a bus with some girls and hit the big city. Once there she was...
Michele Deisering, ND This 41-year-old obese female came to see me for chronic insomnia, depression and anxiety. Acutely, she also had an ear infection, for which antibiotics had been of no help. Initial Intake: Oct. 2007 CC: Ear infection (Patient): I noticed on...
Sussanna Czeranko, ND “Health implies and exhibits the presence of perfection of bodily function along with pleasant passage through life in a particular state of perfection better known as happiness.” – Nora E. Thrash (1927, p. 580) “A belief in good, or the...
NODE SMITH, ND Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the...
NODE SMITH, ND Researchers from Kaunas universities, Lithuania developed a deep learning-based method that can predict the possible onset of Alzheimer's disease from brain images with an accuracy of over 99 per cent. The method was developed while analyzing functional...
NODE SMITH, ND New research has discovered that the strength of the connection between our brain and internal organs is linked to how we feel about our appearance. Published in the journal Cortex, the study is the first to investigate, and first to identify, the...
ANDREW L. RUBMAN, ND, FABNE SUSAN GORDON, PHD, LMT In the May 2021 issue of NDNR, Carrie Decker, ND, wrote an excellent article titled “The Anti-Aging Effects of DHEA.”1 The present article also discusses...
Node Smith, ND According to the United States Department of Justice, “sextortion” is labeled as the most important and fastest-growing cyberthreat to children, with more minor victims per offender than all other child sexual exploitation offenses. Sextortion is the...
Node Smith, ND Scientists at UNIGE discovered that a molecule found in grape skin and seeds can protect against lung cancer when administered by the nasal route Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the world, and 80% of deaths are related to smoking. In...
Node Smith, ND It is estimated that more than half of the adult population of the United States uses dietary supplements. This includes vitamins and mineral supplements, isolated plant constituents such as lecithin, resveratrol, antioxidants, as well as combination...
Node Smith, ND A very interesting discovery was made recently at a laboratory at UT Southwestern when scientists attempted to transform glial cells into dopaminergic neurons, like those lost in Parkinson’s disease. Instead of glial cell transformation through a stem...
Node Smith, ND The CDC has updated its report on Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) this month, and voices its concern for the condition, which causes serious weakness in the arms and legs of predominantly children. CDC has reported 386 confirmed cases of AFM in the United...
Research News Release from: Springer Publishing Women in late pregnancy during darker months of the year may have a greater risk of developing postpartum depression once their babies are born. This is consistent with what is known about the relationship between...
Press Release: John Hopkins Press Release (9/28/2018) If phase III clinical trials are successful, researchers suggest categorizing the drug as schedule IV In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins...
Node Smith, ND A recent research article supports what naturopathic medicine has known for generations, that antibiotics kill helpful bacteria and cause more problems than they solve. The research study has found that the body’s own commensal bacterial flora...
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Gouty subjects, who could find no relief whatever in medicine, were those that Priessnitz cured the quickest, however violent the disease. - Joel Shew, 1845, p.231 If patients have been ten, twenty, or fifty...
Node Smith, ND What do we do when the complexity of our lives is preventing us from making changes to improve our health? According to a new study, changing multiple behaviors may not be realistic for individuals in high stress jobs with demanding and variable...
Research News Release from: Springer Publishing Women in late pregnancy during darker months of the year may have a greater risk of developing postpartum depression once their babies are born. This is consistent with what is known about the relationship between...
Press Release: John Hopkins Press Release (9/28/2018) If phase III clinical trials are successful, researchers suggest categorizing the drug as schedule IV In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins...
Node Smith, ND A recent research article supports what naturopathic medicine has known for generations, that antibiotics kill helpful bacteria and cause more problems than they solve. The research study has found that the body’s own commensal bacterial flora...
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Gouty subjects, who could find no relief whatever in medicine, were those that Priessnitz cured the quickest, however violent the disease. - Joel Shew, 1845, p.231 If patients have been ten, twenty, or fifty...
Node Smith, ND What do we do when the complexity of our lives is preventing us from making changes to improve our health? According to a new study, changing multiple behaviors may not be realistic for individuals in high stress jobs with demanding and variable...
Nature’s Rite offers natural health tools to handle many common ailments. From respiratory infection to back and neck pain; food poisoning to digestive disorders; Sleep Apnea to Shingles, we have kits and products that are condition specific. We offer easy terms and...
Student Scholarship Honorable Mention Georgi Stoychev, BSc Baljit Khamba, ND, Mph Mental disorders are the leading cause of non-fatal disease burden, globally and nationally. It is estimated that 1 in 4 adults in the United States suffers from anxiety and depression...
Node Smith, ND A collaborative team from Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have created what they are terming the first example of “bioelectronic medicine.1” The device is a biodegradable implant that works to increase the rate of...
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Naturopathic medicine is a profession that is busy crafting and holding space in an expensive, eschewing healthcare landscape where orthodox allopathic medicine holds the key cards. It is also an idea, though, quite unlike biomedicine,...
Docere Phranq D. Tamburri, NMD This article will: Explain why prostate cancer (CaP) treatment objectives are more important than specific treatments Outline the objectives for Active Surveillance Clarify how to determine when, specifically, a patient should abandon...
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NODE SMITH, ND Extended exposure to light during nighttime can have negative consequences for human health. But now, researchers from Japan have identified a new type of light with reduced consequences for physiological changes during sleep. In a study published in...
NODE SMITH, ND The psychedelic drug psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in some mushrooms, has been studied as a potential treatment for depression for years. But exactly how it works in the brain and how long beneficial results might last is still...
