PHRANQ D. TAMBURRI, NMD Throughout the world, news of exciting advancements in prostate cancer (CaP) – which I hinted at last year – has been limited due to the coronavirus....
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Digital Game Helps People Learn to Recognize “Mis-information” and “Fake News”
Node Smith, ND A short online game in which players are recruited as a "Chief Disinformation Officer," using tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town, has been shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation in its users. The...
Notes From The Field-July, 2020
JARED L. ZEFF, ND, VNMI, LAC The following is 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 field. It’s not meant to be...
New Findings Contradict 50 Years of Neuroscience Opinion
Node Smith, ND Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals. It has...
Create a Program-Based Practice
MICHAEL SMITH, ND If you have been practicing for any period of time, you have no doubt had the following experience: A patient consults you for their chronic condition, implements some of your recommendations, and...
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Dramatic Cure for Depression: A Case of Red-Tailed Hawk
Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, MSW The first and foremost homeopath to introduce and document bird remedies is Jonathan Shore, MD, of California. However, we have found in the Reference Works computer program information on various other bird remedies that we have...
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Treating MRSA
This all has to do with a patient named Linda. I’ve known her since 1994; she’s 56 years old now. She is a gifted massage therapist with a following of post-traumatic stress disorder clients. In these intervening years, she returned to school and earned a degree in...
Lyme Disease as the New Great Imitator: Neurological and other non-arthritic cases
Shandor Weiss, ND Syphilis used to be called The Great Imitator, because the secondary and tertiary stages of infection led to and mimicked a host of other diseases. Many cases of bone, skin, heart, brain, mental and other illnesses caused by syphilis were missed or...
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Using Blood Chemistry Analysis to Screen for Metabolic Syndrome
Dicken Weatherby, ND I believe that Type II diabetes and other serious health conditions can be prevented if physicians know what to watch for long before the full-blown disease state manifests. A term we hear often these days is metabolic syndrome, which used to be...
Eating Organic: The More Bio-Toxic, the Better?
Jacob Schor, ND The real reason to eat organic fruits and vegetables is not that they are less toxic, but that in an odd way, they are actually more toxic. Bear with me as I explain this apparent paradox. Defense Mechanisms of Plants Why do plants produce all the...
A Degree and the Company it Keeps
David Schleich, PhD All naturopathic graduates from CNME-accredited schools in the U.S. and Canada are able to put the letters “ND” behind their names. However, the Canadian ND is a diploma, rather than a degree. The credential is different because the higher...
Etiological Factors Involved With Metabolic Syndrome
Mona Morstein, ND Although allopathic physicians recently have been debating whether metabolic syndrome is actually a syndrome, the rest of the world seems solidly ensconced in the belief that it is. The World Health Organization (WHO) was first to come out with...
Quality Assurance of Natural Products: The New FDA Regulations Alone Do Not Ensure High-Quality Supplements
Rick Liva, RPh, ND Why write about quality assurance of natural products? My intent for these quality assurance articles is simple: I will do my best to educate healthcare practitioners about the quality assurance and quality control procedures necessary to make the...
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Cancer Research Breakthrough
NODE SMITH, ND A team of researchers at the Center for Bioactive Delivery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Institute for Applied Life Sciences has engineered a nanoparticle that has the potential to revolutionize disease treatment, including for cancer....
‘Prediabetes’ Is Not a Trivial Thing
NODE SMITH, ND People with prediabetes were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other major cardiovascular event when compared with those who had normal blood sugar levels, according to research being presented at the American College of...
ECS Nutraceuticals Group LLC Receives NSF International’s Good Manufacturing Practice Certification
HAUPPAUGUE, NY - ECS Nutraceuticals Group LLC, the manufacturer of ECS Therapeutics® premier healthcare-exclusive hemp CBD brand and other private label brands, was recently added to NSF International’s NSF/ANSI 455-2 Dietary Supplements Good Manufacturing Practice...
Long Term Effects of COVID-19
NODE SMITH, ND As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors -- even those who had mild cases -- continue to manage a variety of health problems long after the initial infection should have resolved. In what is believed to be the...
Study Links Alcohol Use and Dementia
Node Smith, ND A new study from the Lancet Public Health Journal shows that over-consumption of alcohol, as in alcohol use disorder, may be one of the most crucial avoidable risk factors for all types of dementia - and especially early-onset dementia.1 The study...
Beetroot Juice: Great for the Heart and Kidneys
Node Smith, ND Two recent studies on beetroot juice supplements support their use in certain disorders of the heart, and as protection for the kidneys after radioactive isotopes are used for imaging techniques.1,2 Specifically, beetroot juice was found to enhance the...
Are Autism Blood and Urine Tests Coming Soon?
Node Smith, ND The rates of autism in children has skyrocketed in the last few decades. Thousands of children are diagnosed with various degrees of autism, or placed on the “autism spectrum,” each year. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 68 children in the United...
New Rapid Testing for Vegetable Pesticide Residue
Node Smith, ND Part of the difficulty with analyzing products for contaminants (whether supplements, or foods) is the time it takes to analyze a sample. Addressing this obstacle, a research team at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an innovative...
Homeopathic Injection Therapy – Treatment of Chronic Pain, Depression, and Fatigue
Donese Worden, NMD Naturopathic Perspective Homeopathic medicines have a long history of clinical use for the treatment of chronic pain and depression. They may be used alone or integrated with other therapeutic modalities, including conventional medicine, traditional...
Insomnia: Circadian Rhythms & The Gut Microbiome
Yasaman Tasalloti, ND Docere With about 60 million Americans affected each year by insomnia and an estimated 8.5 million taking sleep medications, there is clearly a need for a slightly different therapeutic approach to this health concern. As the incidence of chronic...
10 Top Market Realities of Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD Education What’s It Really Like Out There? As every naturopathic physician knows, natural medicine is also known these days as “holistic” or “integrative” or “functional.” Some estimates put the aggregate population of active...
Sleep-Disordered Breathing: An Under-recognized Cause of Chronic Disease – Part 1
David Nortman, ND Docere We spend 1/4 to 1/3 of our time sleeping (or trying to), yet most medical care is focused on our waking hours. Sound sleep heals and restores the organism on all levels. Poor sleep, on the other hand, may cause, maintain, or exacerbate any...
What Begets Suicide?
Jonathan E. Prousky, ND, MSc, MA Naturopathic Perspective The first several minutes of the 2006 documentary, The Bridge,1 features what appears to be a rather idyllic day in San Francisco. The sky is blue and the Golden Gate Bridge is filled with sightseers and...
Sweetbridge and Natural Partners Tackle Nutritional Supplement Transparency and Compliance with Blockchain Technology
Sweetbridge blockchain protocol also offers improved means of tracking patient outcomes Scottsdale, Arizona — February 28, 2018 — Sweetbridge, a non-profit that aims to transform supply chain and logistics management with blockchain technology, has today announced a...
Insomnia: Circadian Rhythms & The Gut Microbiome
Yasaman Tasalloti, ND Docere With about 60 million Americans affected each year by insomnia and an estimated 8.5 million taking sleep medications, there is clearly a need for a slightly different therapeutic approach to this health concern. As the incidence of chronic...
10 Top Market Realities of Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD Education What’s It Really Like Out There? As every naturopathic physician knows, natural medicine is also known these days as “holistic” or “integrative” or “functional.” Some estimates put the aggregate population of active...
Sleep-Disordered Breathing: An Under-recognized Cause of Chronic Disease – Part 1
David Nortman, ND Docere We spend 1/4 to 1/3 of our time sleeping (or trying to), yet most medical care is focused on our waking hours. Sound sleep heals and restores the organism on all levels. Poor sleep, on the other hand, may cause, maintain, or exacerbate any...
What Begets Suicide?
Jonathan E. Prousky, ND, MSc, MA Naturopathic Perspective The first several minutes of the 2006 documentary, The Bridge,1 features what appears to be a rather idyllic day in San Francisco. The sky is blue and the Golden Gate Bridge is filled with sightseers and...
Sweetbridge and Natural Partners Tackle Nutritional Supplement Transparency and Compliance with Blockchain Technology
Sweetbridge blockchain protocol also offers improved means of tracking patient outcomes Scottsdale, Arizona — February 28, 2018 — Sweetbridge, a non-profit that aims to transform supply chain and logistics management with blockchain technology, has today announced a...
Mindfulness Techniques Could Help Reduce Seizures
Node Smith, ND A study was recently published in the journal Neurology, that supports using mindfulness techniques to reduce seizures in people suffering from epilepsy.1 The lead author, Sheryl R. Haut, MD of montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College...
Book Review: What’s Making Our Children Sick?
Joy Nauman, MEd Education Medical Resources for NDs A Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry What’s Making Our Children Sick? Despite an increase in public health awareness and improved access to health care, parents and clinicians have noticed a...
Antimicrobial Copper: The Solution to Superbugs?
Paul Herscu, ND, MPH Michael J. Norden, MD Naturopathic Perspective The rapid emergence of superbugs, ie, those resistant to essentially all drugs, threatens to return us to the horrors of the pre-antibiotic era when countless people died from common infections. The...
Food for Thought: How Sugar Can Affect Your Mental Health
Anna Garber, MSc Monique Aucoin, ND Sukriti Bhardwaj, BHSc Tolle Causam The field of nutritional psychiatry is relatively recent but is gaining momentum in terms of its evidence base and public interest.1 Several studies suggest a relationship between improved...
Resetting the Clock: The Key to Restoring Healthy Sleep
Jennifer Bahr, ND Tolle Totum When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. (Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club) As a naturopathic doctor who...
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