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...
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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...
Fatigue Due to Mold Exposure: Pathophysiology
Tolle Causam Lauren Tessier, ND Illness resulting from mold and mycotoxin exposure is gaining more traction and attention. As the paradigm shift occurs, mold and mycotoxin-induced illness (MMII) should be brought to the forefront of clinical education, both in school...
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Herbal Medicines for Hair Loss
Jillian Stansbury, ND In addition to genetic predisposition to androgenic alopecia and poor circulatory health, stress may exacerbate the process. Acute stress causes hair loss in animals and humans. One investigation of serum cortisol levels and glucocorticoid...
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Study Links Math and Musical Ability
NODE SMITH, ND Music educator Martin J. Bergee thought that if he could just control his study for the myriad factors that might have influenced previous ones -- race, income, education, etc. -- he could disprove the notion of a link between students' musical and...
Cocoa Flavanols May Benefit Vascular and Cognitive Health
NODE SMITH, ND The brains of healthy adults recovered faster from a mild vascular challenge and performed better on complex tests if the participants consumed cocoa flavanols beforehand, researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports. In the study, 14 of 18...
New Study on Obesity, Immune Function and Cancer Development
NODE SMITH, ND Obesity has been linked to increased risk for over a dozen different types of cancer, as well as worse prognosis and survival. Over the years, scientists have identified obesity-related processes that drive tumor growth, such as metabolic changes and...
DNA Transcription Mechanism Elaborated Further – Biology Textbook Update
NODE SMITH, ND New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until now -- precisely how the copying of genetic material that, once started, is properly turned off. The finding concerns...
Intro to Bio-Electric Chemistry: Can You Regulate the Vital Force? – Part 2
Darrell S.C.S. Misak, ND, RPh In last month’s article (Part 1), I introduced Bio-Electric Chemistry and explained how all matter is energy and is represented as variable frequencies, like waves of the ocean rolling off one another. I introduced the genius work of Dr...
A Case of Palliative Care
Paul Theriault, ND M presented as a 43-year-old male on July 31, 2012. He had been diagnosed with Coffin-Lowry syndrome and was currently confined to a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury and the physical deterioration caused by the syndrome. He had a history of...
Intro to Bio-Electric Chemistry: Can You Regulate the Vital Force? – Part 1
Darrell S.C.S. Misak, ND, RPh At the recent Age Wise Conference at NCNM, I shared a discovery that not only transformed my naturopathic practice but also my whole concept of health. It started with a childhood curiosity to just understand how things worked, which...
Osteoarthritis: Halting It in Its Tracks
Angela Cortal, ND Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, progressive condition of worsening joint destruction that affects most of us in the United States. Even if you do not personally experience OA, you likely have a friend or family member who does. In the United...
Some Older Adults Retain Youthful Memory Abilities
According to a study out of the Massachusetts General Hospital and published in the Journal of Neuroscience, some loss of memory is often considered an inevitable part of aging, but some new research reveals how some people appear to escape that fate. Most older...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Could Help Autistic Kids Get Enough Sleep
According to a study out of the University of Missouri Health, some experts believe that a family-based cognitive behavioral therapy may be the key for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have problems sleeping. The short-term therapy focuses on changing...
Migraine a Risk Marker for Stroke, Heart Attack
Everyone knows migraines hurt horribly, but it’s not just an issue unto itself, but also a symptom. According to a study out of Germany and published in British Medical Journal, researchers have now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a...
Healthy Diet Boosts Children’s Reading Skills
According to a study out of the University of Eastern Finland and published in the European Journal of Nutrition, a healthy diet is linked to better reading skills in the first three school years. The researchers used 161 children aged 6-8 years of age, following them...
Evidence of ‘Hidden Hearing Loss’ in College-age Subjects
According to a study out of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and published in PLOS ONE, researchers have finally linked symptoms of difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments with evidence of cochlear synaptopathy, a condition known as ‘hidden...
Perception to Action
According to a study out of the University of California Santa Barbara and published in the journal eLife, a researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Could Help Autistic Kids Get Enough Sleep
According to a study out of the University of Missouri Health, some experts believe that a family-based cognitive behavioral therapy may be the key for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have problems sleeping. The short-term therapy focuses on changing...
Migraine a Risk Marker for Stroke, Heart Attack
Everyone knows migraines hurt horribly, but it’s not just an issue unto itself, but also a symptom. According to a study out of Germany and published in British Medical Journal, researchers have now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a...
Healthy Diet Boosts Children’s Reading Skills
According to a study out of the University of Eastern Finland and published in the European Journal of Nutrition, a healthy diet is linked to better reading skills in the first three school years. The researchers used 161 children aged 6-8 years of age, following them...
Evidence of ‘Hidden Hearing Loss’ in College-age Subjects
According to a study out of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and published in PLOS ONE, researchers have finally linked symptoms of difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments with evidence of cochlear synaptopathy, a condition known as ‘hidden...
Perception to Action
According to a study out of the University of California Santa Barbara and published in the journal eLife, a researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for...
Rotten Egg Gas Could Help Protect Diabetics from Heart Complications
According to a study out of the University of Exeter, published in Pharmacological Research and funded by the European Union and Medical Research Council, a gas that was formerly known for its noxious qualities could actually help people with diabetes recover from...
Why Antidepressants Don’t Always Work
According to a study out of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), SSRI antidepressants (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) are amongst the most commonly taken medicines. However, there seems to be no way of knowing in advance whether or not...
10 Reasons to Attend Naturopathic Medical School
Interested in a Rewarding Healthcare Career That Combines the Healing Power of Nature With Modern Science? Attending a Naturopathic Medical School May Be the Right Choice for You – And Here are Ten Reasons Why As patients become more aware and interested in natural...
Women with Hearing Loss More Likely to Have Preterm or Low Birth Weight Babies
According to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, babies born to women with hearing loss were significantly more likely to be premature and have low birth weight. Around one percent of people in the U.S. who are 18 to 44 years old have...
OCPs & Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
Tolle Totum Rhondalynn Smith Brustoski, ND Victoria, a 35-year-old female, presented to my office in April 2010 with diffuse cerebral venous sinus thrombosis secondary to oral contraceptive pills (OCPs). She had residual ataxia and gait disturbances, weight gain, eye...
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How do you Rate at Recognizing Faces?
Node Smith, ND While in Paris in the 1990s, Georgie briefly watched a professional photographer taking pictures of kids playing in a small park near Les Halles and thought nothing of it. Ten years later she was having breakfast in Australia's Byron Bay backpackers and...
Cannabis Potency is Much Higher than In Previous Generations
Node Smith, ND New research shows that over the past 50 years street cannabis across the world has become substantially stronger carrying an increased risk of harm. The team behind the study from the Addiction and Mental Health Group at the University of Bath,...





