Node Smith, ND Thin, flexible fibers made of carbon nanotubes have now proven able to bridge damaged heart tissues and deliver the electrical signals needed to keep those hearts beating. Biocompatible fibers sewn into damaged tissue can restore electrical function to...
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NuAxon Bioscience to Attend the 2019 Supply Side West
Promoting soil to shelf concept for herbal product brands Bloomington, IN (October 1, 2019) Nuaxon Bioscience, Inc. will be exhibiting October 15-19, at the industry trade show, SupplySide West in Las Vegas, NV. The trade show brings together industry professionals...
Castor Oil: Magic or Myth (Part 1)
Vis Medicatrix Naturae Marisol Teijeiro, ND Walk into any health food store, talk to any naturopathic physician, midwife, nurse, medical doctor, herbalist, or functional medicine practitioner, and ask them about castor oil. You will receive polar responses, as to...
Insomnia Associated with Heart Disease
Node Smith, ND People suffering from insomnia may have an increased risk of coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. Previous observational studies linked insomnia with...
Art-Based Mindfulness Helps Reduce Headaches in Teen Girls
Node Smith, ND Teenagers report higher levels of stress than adults, and cite school as the highest contributing factor, according to the American Psychological Association's annual report. A summary from 2013 concluded that while stress among Americans was not new,...
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CV Health and Prevention: An Ayurvedic Approach
Virender Sodhi, ND, MD (Ayurveda) Anup Mulakaluri, ND, AWC According to Ayurvedic medicine, the heart chakra lies at the center of the 7 chakras. It holds the emotional functions of love, confidence, and trust, as well as deep connection and compassion; its highest...
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FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND Teaching and learning are 2 sides of a coin that leads to education. That makes it intrinsically a social construct, albeit with objective, discernible activities involved, such as conducting a chemistry lab experiment or...
Epidemics & Pandemics: Homeopathic Prevention & Management – Part 1
SHARUM SHARIF, ND Abstract Epidemics and pandemics remain among the most serious threats to human health, and their incidence is rising due to factors such as global travel, antibiotic resistance, armed conflict, and climate change. In this first installment of...
How to Think Like an ND, Part 3
The Vital Conversation JAMES SENSENIG, ND JARED L. ZEFF, ND, VNMI, LAC This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital...
Has Corona Saved a Few Lives? New Links Between Air Pollution, CVD & Mortality
Naturopathic Perspective JACOB SCHOR, ND, FABNO Among psychologists and those who keep up with those sorts of things, that “cup half-full” business is called “cognitive reframing.” This refers to the psychological technique of identifying and...
Transcranial Neurostimulation: A Novel Treatment for Depression?
Keith Spaulding, ND, MAc, MSEE The change in the medical worldview due to the invention and widespread use of antibiotics wasn’t just a shift in use from more natural substances to pharmacological substances; it was also a shift away from multiple types of therapeutic...
Oral Contraceptives May Triple Risk for Crohn’s Disease
According to a Harvard University Study, women may be three times more likely to develop Crohn’s disease if they have used oral contraceptive pills for five years or more. The risk was especially pronounced in women who already had a genetic predisposition to chronic...
National College of Natural Medicine Announces Age Wise Institute
NCNM to Focus on Health and Well-Being of a Growing Aging Population PORTLAND, Ore. (March 4, 2016)—National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) today announced the formation of a new institute aimed at improving the lives of senior citizens through promoting healthy,...
Call to Action: Modernizing ND Healthcare in CT (HB5334)
Please take action now! Ginger Nash, ND Many patients over the years have asked me for more help than I am able to provide given our antiquated licensing law in CT. Naturopathic doctors in Connecticut are currently trying to modernize the law and we have a bill...
Mechanism By Which Obesity Promotes Cancer
According to a study by Massachusetts General Hospital (The first and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School) published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, the team found an association between obesity and a certain pathway that promotes tumor...
A New Way to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescription
According to a new study out of the University of Southern California, behavioral interventions could help doctors slow the rise of treatment-resistant infections in hospitals and clinics, reduce adverse drug events in patients, and lower health care costs. The...
Infant Diet Influences Gut Microbiome Not Maternal Obesity
According to a study by the American Society for Microbiology, after the age of nine months, the development of the infant gut microbiota is driven by the transition to family foods, not maternal obesity. “Our results reveal that the transition from early infant...
Meditation May Ease Pain and Anxiety from Biopsy
A new study from the Duke Cancer Institute that was published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology evaluated 121 women who listened to recorded meditation or music or received standard care during image-guided needle biopsies. The study was conducted to...
Barley Helps Improve Blood Sugar Levels, Reduce Appetite
According to a study by Lund University, Barley can reduce blood sugar levels as well as reduce people’s appetite. This helps reduce the risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease respectively. One researcher remarked, “It is surprising, yet promising, that choosing...
Maternal Consumption of Seafood and Child Neuropsychological Development
According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers have found a link between the maternal consumption of seafood and the neuropsychological development of children. The study was conducted to shed light to specific seafood subtypes within the...
A New Way to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescription
According to a new study out of the University of Southern California, behavioral interventions could help doctors slow the rise of treatment-resistant infections in hospitals and clinics, reduce adverse drug events in patients, and lower health care costs. The...
Infant Diet Influences Gut Microbiome Not Maternal Obesity
According to a study by the American Society for Microbiology, after the age of nine months, the development of the infant gut microbiota is driven by the transition to family foods, not maternal obesity. “Our results reveal that the transition from early infant...
Meditation May Ease Pain and Anxiety from Biopsy
A new study from the Duke Cancer Institute that was published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology evaluated 121 women who listened to recorded meditation or music or received standard care during image-guided needle biopsies. The study was conducted to...
Barley Helps Improve Blood Sugar Levels, Reduce Appetite
According to a study by Lund University, Barley can reduce blood sugar levels as well as reduce people’s appetite. This helps reduce the risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease respectively. One researcher remarked, “It is surprising, yet promising, that choosing...
Maternal Consumption of Seafood and Child Neuropsychological Development
According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers have found a link between the maternal consumption of seafood and the neuropsychological development of children. The study was conducted to shed light to specific seafood subtypes within the...
BMI Shouldn’t Be Used To Determine Healthiness
According to a study out of the University of California – Los Angeles published in the International Journal of Obesity, relying on body mass index (BMI), a numerical measure of a person’s height and weight, as a proxy for health incorrectly labels more than 54...
Antibiotic Use And Childhood Obesity
A new study published in the International Journal of Obesity links antibiotic use to childhood body mass index trajectory. The study was comprised of children aged 3-18 and the researchers used mixed effects linear regression to model associations of antibiotic...
The Impact of High Fructose Diet on Offspring
According to a new study by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, researchers discuss their findings on the effects of antenatal exposure to a high fructose diet on the offspring’s development of metabolic syndrome-like phenotype and cardiovascular disease later in...
The Link Between Excess Iron and Parkinson’s Disease
According to research from the Andersen lab at the Buck Institute, published online in The Journal of Neuroscience, there is a link between excess iron and Parkinson’s Disease. The study shows that the damage the excess iron found in the brains of patients with...
Lavender Essential Oil Combined With Other Aroma-Therapeutic Oils
A study out of South Africa looked at the interaction between different essential oils to determine the validity of the combination of the oils in the treatment of ailments, especially Lavandula angustifolia. Essential oils, which form part of naturopathic therapy,...
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Our Memory and Sense of Self Tied to Our Physical Perception of Our Bodies
Node Smith, ND Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say, our bodies. A study appearing August 26 in the journal iScience shows that, when pairs of friends...
50% Reduction in Earth Seismic Activity From COVID-19 Lockdown
Node Smith, ND The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May 2020. This quiet period is the longest and most pronounced quiet period of seismic noise in recorded history This...





