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Node Smith, ND A medication that boosts the body's own cannabis-like substances, endocannabinoids, shows promise to help the brain unlearn fear memories when these are no longer meaningful. These results, obtained in an early-stage, experimental study on healthy...
Node Smith, ND Patients with gout are at increased risk of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure, according to new University of Limerick (UL), Ireland led research. Patients recruited in general practice with a diagnosis of gout more than twice as likely to...
Node Smith, ND Dr. John E. Parker was working at a West Virginia hospital in 2015 when a 31-year-old female patient was admitted with acute respiratory problems. A team of doctors ultimately suspected that her mysterious case of lipoid pneumonia might be related to...
Node Smith, ND After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury...
Node Smith, ND, The first time Lori Tipton tried MDMA, she was skeptical it would make a difference. “I really was, at the beginning, very nervous,” Tipton said. MDMA for PTSD MDMA is the main ingredient in the club drug known as ecstasy or molly. But Tipton wasn’t...
Jillian Stansbury, ND Autoimmune diseases of the thyroid are on the rise worldwide, believed to be due to nutritional and environmental factors including exposure to heavy metals, organochlorides, pesticides,1 and tobacco smoke.2 Autoimmune thyroid disease, namely...
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Carrie Decker, ND As we transition from the dog days of summer to the dead of winter, many of us take heed of the need to support immune system function. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), autumn is the season associated with the lungs, an...
Sharum Sharif, ND In Part 1 of this article, I covered how and why epidemics are on the rise; how conventional medical approaches alone (including drugs and vaccination) are insufficient in meeting the needs of our species; and how...
Node Smith, ND Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who creates patterns of events in the universe, according to neuroscientists at Georgetown...
Node Smith, ND Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain's ability to clean itself of toxins, and this may seed it for Alzheimer's disease, dementia and other neurodegenerative problems, new research from the University of Virginia...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
According to researchers out of the University of Edinburgh, reducing the meat consumption from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions might not lower greenhouse gas emissions. The study that was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, evaluated the...
In a study out of Brazil, researchers evaluated the relationship between the functioning of the hypothalamaic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and major depressive episodes in the remote postpartum period. The participants were women between 23 and 33 years old about six...
In a paper published in the Annuls of Internal Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the authors in combination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give advice to physicians on prescribing antibiotics for acute respiratory tract...
In a study headed up by the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, researchers found that breastmilk from obese mothers has pro-inflammatory properties and decreased neuroprotective factors. In a notably-small sample size of...
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Node Smith, ND Whether children have ongoing sleep problems from birth through childhood or do not develop sleep problems until they begin school, a new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has found that sleep disturbances at any age are...
Node Smith, ND Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only survive if they enter the cells. This is the only place where they find the necessary metabolites for their reproduction. And this happens in a relatively simple way: the...
