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Body Adaptations from Short-term Overeating

Node Smith, ND Overeating has been found to impair blood sugar (glucose) control and insulin levels. A new study suggests that the duration of a bout of overeating can affect how the body adapts glucose and insulin processing when calorie intake increases. The article...

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The New Taste of “Reduced” Salt

Node Smith, ND Washington State University researchers have found a way to make food taste salty but with less of the sodium chloride tied to poor health. “It’s a stealth approach, not like buying the ‘reduced salt’ option, which people generally don’t like,” said...

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Kinsei Manual Therapy: An Introduction to the United States

Kinsei Manual Therapy: An Introduction to the United States

Bert Mathieson, ND, MA, RD, LD, CDE Anne Kelty, ND, LMT Kinsei Manual Therapy (KMT) is known as “Shintai Kinsei Ho” in Japan. “Shintai” means human body, “Kinsei” means balance or harmony, and “Ho” means method or technique. KMT is a whole-body style of manual therapy...

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New Biomaterial that Changes with Applied Force

New Biomaterial that Changes with Applied Force

Node Smith, ND Inspired by how human bone and colorful coral reefs adjust mineral deposits in response to their surrounding environments, Johns Hopkins researchers have created a self-adapting material that can change its stiffness in response to the applied force....

Atypical Fungal Dermatology

Atypical Fungal Dermatology

Tolle Causam  Lauren Tessier, ND When the phrase “fungal infections” is uttered, what are the first 3 pathologies that come to mind? Perhaps you think of the deadly, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Or maybe you specialize...

Millennials are us Well, not yet, but soon enough

David J. Schleich, PhD Some years back, my generation started talking about “echo boomers,” but Straus and Howe (2000) nailed it with the term “millennials.” Then the Pew Research Center made it official a decade and a half later (2015). This demographic – the...

Benedict in Europe, 1907

Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE The Oberwaid is simply magnificent embracing on one side a sweep of the crystal lake and on the other a panorama of the lofty snow-clad Alps … The Alps are an uninterrupted sermon on peace and exegesis of eternity. It is no wonder that the...

Mind-Body Medicine

Nimrod Sheinman, BSc, ND Paul Epstein, ND * Used by permission. Excerpt adapted from chapter in: The Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine – The Healing Power of Nature. Every drugless practitioner needs a working knowledge of Mental Science. The vital organs and...

Perception of Time: How Its Assessment Can Create Meaningful Change

Iva Lloyd, ND How many times have you heard the sayings, “I don’t have enough time,” “I’m too busy,” “I need more time,” or other similar remarks? What I find interesting about these statements is that, at least in vertical time, everyone, irrespective of age, money,...

Mind-Body Medicine Its History & Evolution

Jim Massey, ND Mind-body medicine is a revolutionary approach to health care that focuses on treating the patient as a totality of body, mind, consciousness, spirit, and soul. Treatment recognizes and brings awareness to the significant role of our emotions, mental...

Nigella Seed Improves Male Fertility

TABRIZ, Iran – Damage to human sperm can occur with an increase of free radicals, but components of the medicinal herb Nigella sativa have shown to improve spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis. Scientists at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran conducted a...

Fat Signals Control Energy Levels in the Brain

LOUIS, Mo – A new study is showing there is an optimal amount of body fat needed for maximizing health and longevity. The study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is showing that an enzyme in body fat tissue controls energy levels in the...

DISCOVERY: New Tick-borne Disease

BALTIMORE, Md. – There is a new tick-borne disease that medical practitioners in some parts of the world need to be aware of this summer. It is known that ticks carry and transmit microbes that cause illnesses such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and...

A New Lead to Battling Parasites and Allergies?

MANCHESTER, England – Researchers at the University of Manchester say they are close to developing new therapies for controlling the human body’s response to allergies and parasitic worm infections. The will publish their findings in the journal Nature Communications....

Mind-Body Medicine Its History & Evolution

Jim Massey, ND Mind-body medicine is a revolutionary approach to health care that focuses on treating the patient as a totality of body, mind, consciousness, spirit, and soul. Treatment recognizes and brings awareness to the significant role of our emotions, mental...

Nigella Seed Improves Male Fertility

TABRIZ, Iran – Damage to human sperm can occur with an increase of free radicals, but components of the medicinal herb Nigella sativa have shown to improve spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis. Scientists at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran conducted a...

Fat Signals Control Energy Levels in the Brain

LOUIS, Mo – A new study is showing there is an optimal amount of body fat needed for maximizing health and longevity. The study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is showing that an enzyme in body fat tissue controls energy levels in the...

DISCOVERY: New Tick-borne Disease

BALTIMORE, Md. – There is a new tick-borne disease that medical practitioners in some parts of the world need to be aware of this summer. It is known that ticks carry and transmit microbes that cause illnesses such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and...

A New Lead to Battling Parasites and Allergies?

MANCHESTER, England – Researchers at the University of Manchester say they are close to developing new therapies for controlling the human body’s response to allergies and parasitic worm infections. The will publish their findings in the journal Nature Communications....

Bastyr University Names New President

Charles “Mac” Powell, PhD, becomes the fourth president in the institution’s history. Charles “Mac” Powell, PhD After an extensive nationwide search, Bastyr University selects Charles “Mac” Powell, PhD, as its new president. He will oversee the University’s campuses...

Compassion Meditation Helps Mind-Wandering

STANFORD, Calif. – Meditation helps reduce mind-wandering and encourages caring and benevolent behavior, according to new research from Stanford University. The research was published in the March edition of the Journal of Positive Psychology. The researchers claim...

What Channels Control Blood Flow to the Brain?

CALGARY, Canada -- Contractile activity of smooth muscle cells in the walls of cerebral arteries determines the degree of arterial tone, and thereby controls blood flow. This study, which appears in the May issue of the Journal of General Physiology, was done on...

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Genetics and Cancer Metastisis Study

Genetics and Cancer Metastisis Study

Node Smith, ND Sometimes cancer stays put, but often it metastasizes, spreading to new locations in the body. It has long been suspected that genetic mutations arising inside tumor cells drive this potentially devastating turn of events. Researchers have shown for the...