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Paternal Depression Increases ADHD and Behavioral Risk by 37%
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Therapeutic Order: Navigating an Ever-Increasing Toxic World
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Allergies, Asthma & Eczema: Pediatric Treatment of the Atopic Triad
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Inflammation During Pregnancy Alters Brain Development: A Groundbreaking Study
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New Generations, New Genders
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Social Anxiety Disorder: A Case Study Assessing the Effect of Mindfulness & Acceptance-Based Therapy
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The Cytokine Connection to Insomnia
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Bulimia: Steps in Recovery
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The Magnifying Glass Principal
Marcus Bird, MEI, Dip HSc Kin Andy Ramsay, BHSc acup When we went to school to learn the amazing modality that is our chosen profession, we were not told of the fate that was soon to befall us. We were dazzled by the bright lights and promises that if we were of...
The Body Doesn’t Lie Focusing on the Physical Symptoms of Mental Illness
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A Lascivious Tale: An Adult ADD Case Study
Andrew J. Kaufmann, ND Naturopathic Perspective A Lascivious Tale: An Adult ADD Case Study Martin is a 40-year-old man who presented to my office in June of 2014. His chief complaints include poor concentration, memory, anxiety, depression, and longstanding attention...
Antibiotics & Endometriosis Clinical Observations and Pearls
Justin Gallant, ND, BKin While taking a thorough health history, I always ask my patients the golden question, “What happened right before this condition came on?” Time and time again, they have responded by saying they were on antibiotics at the time. There seems to...
25 Cubed Or Back to the Future, Again
David J. Schleich, PhD Back in my youth, that clever satirical magazine, Mad, was required reading for many boomers, most particularly among those of us who eschewed barbers. Alfred E. Neuman reassured all and sundry that what we worry unnecessarily about are things...
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Naturopathic Doctor Continues Walk Across USA for Health Equity
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Healing the Gut to Calm the Mind: A Case Study in Pediatric Anxiety and OCD-Like Behavior
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The Mind-Body Bridge: Naturopathic Philosophy Meets Psychotherapy & Neuroscience
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The Link Between Leaky Gut, Food Sensitivities, and Anxiety
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How Does Mindfulness Meditation Help Pain?
From University of California - San Diego For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists have only recently been able to test if and how this actually works. In the latest of these efforts, researchers at...
Study Says Your Friends Like it When You Reach Out to Them
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Eyesight May Worsen Dementia Risk
From Taylor & Francis Group Older adults with untreated sight conditions may be at increased risk of dementia, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 studies involving 76,373 participants. The results of the study, published in the...
Wearable Sensor Using Gold Technology
From University of Tokyo Researchers created a special ultrathin sensor, spun from gold, that can be attached directly to the skin without irritation or discomfort. The sensor can measure different biomarkers or substances to perform on-body chemical analysis. It...
A Gene that Explains Why Women’s Heart Attacks are Often Missed
From University of Florida When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes. According to University of Florida College of Nursing associate professor...
NEW “Essential 8” Heart Metric Includes Sleep
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Cosmology Meets Neuroscience to Map Brain Connections
From Howard Hughes Medical Institute After a career spent probing the mysteries of the universe, a Janelia Research Campus senior scientist is now exploring the mysteries of the human brain and developing new insights into the connections between brain cells....
Most People Over-Use Inhalers for Asthma
From Queen Mary University of London Asthma is a common lung condition that affects 5.4 million people in the UK and can lead to symptoms such as coughing, wheezing or feeling breathless. Asthma is best controlled by regular use of a corticosteroid inhaler, which...
Genetic Testing Could Indicate Risk of Kidney Disease
From Columbia University Irving Medical Center A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease -- and it works in people of African,...
Regenerating Cardiomyocytes
From University of Houston Researchers at the University of Houston are reporting a first-of-its-kind technology that not only repairs heart muscle cells in mice but also regenerates them following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction as its medically known....
NEW “Essential 8” Heart Metric Includes Sleep
From American Heart Association Sleep duration is now considered an essential component for ideal heart and brain health. Life's Essential 8™ cardiovascular health score replaces Life's Simple 7™, according to a new Presidential Advisory, Life's Essential 8 --...
Cosmology Meets Neuroscience to Map Brain Connections
From Howard Hughes Medical Institute After a career spent probing the mysteries of the universe, a Janelia Research Campus senior scientist is now exploring the mysteries of the human brain and developing new insights into the connections between brain cells....
Most People Over-Use Inhalers for Asthma
From Queen Mary University of London Asthma is a common lung condition that affects 5.4 million people in the UK and can lead to symptoms such as coughing, wheezing or feeling breathless. Asthma is best controlled by regular use of a corticosteroid inhaler, which...
Genetic Testing Could Indicate Risk of Kidney Disease
From Columbia University Irving Medical Center A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease -- and it works in people of African,...
Regenerating Cardiomyocytes
From University of Houston Researchers at the University of Houston are reporting a first-of-its-kind technology that not only repairs heart muscle cells in mice but also regenerates them following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction as its medically known....
Each Neuron Computes Movement Signals autonomously, and as a Whole
From Technion-Israel Institute of Technology From the moment we are born, and even before that, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. We move our eyes to see. We wiggle, we walk, we gesture, we...
Could Being ‘Over-Confident’ be Detrimental to Health?
From University of Vienna Older people who overestimate their health go to the doctor less often. This can have serious consequences for their health, for example, when illnesses are detected too late. By contrast, people who think they are sicker than they actually...
Taking Antibiotics Could be Detrimental to Athletes
From University of California - Riverside New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes' motivation and endurance. The UC Riverside-led mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor separating athletes from couch...
Supplements for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
From NIH/National Eye Institute The Age-Related Eye Disease Studies (AREDS and AREDS2) established that dietary supplements can slow progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in older Americans. In a new report,...
Traumatic Brain Injury Neurological Recovery
From University of California - Irvine Scientists from the University of California, Irvine have discovered that an injury to one part of the brain changes the connections between nerve cells across the entire brain. The new research was published this week in Nature...
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