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Integrating BioIdentical Hormones and Herbal Protocols

Naturopathic Clinical Pearls By Jannine Krause, ND Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Bio-Identical HRT (Bio-HRT) are often debated in the medical community, leaving many women confused about their options. This article explores a naturopathic approach that...

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Priessnitz’s Cures of Mercury

Priessnitz’s Cures of Mercury

Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Nature Cure Clinical Pearls All persons who previously had made use of mercury, when using the water cure, became again subject to salivation and ulcers, a sure sign that the cure takes effect, and that invigorated nature rids herself of the...

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PCH | Restorative Formulations

How does supporting naturopathic medicine relate to your company culture? RF is focused on philanthropy, physician education, and providing superior quality ingredients. Approximately 95% of our botanical extracts are certified organic or wildcrafted, and in some...

Putting Patient Tools to Work

5 Reasons Naturopathic Doctors Should Curate their Patient Education James Maskell Every doctor knows, at the Latin root of his or her profession, doctor means teacher. That aspect of the art of medicine has been somewhat lost in our current, patriarchal medical...

The New Federal Compounding Law

Compounding Problems for Your Practice and Patients? Mike Corrado This past November, Congress passed – and the president signed into law – the Drug Quality and Security Act (HR 3204). The impetus for federal involvement was the sale in 2012 of tainted sterile...

PCH | Wise Woman Herbals®

How does your company culture support naturopathic medicine? Wise Woman Herbals® was founded in 1989 by a naturopath for naturopaths. We offer the most comprehensive line of high quality botanical supplements to professionals with formulas based on the eclectics and...

Optimizing the HPA Axis

Lise Alschuler, ND For many patients, chronic stress is a fact of modern life. Yet, while most clinicians are keenly aware that stress can play a major role in the development of disease, it’s also important to be familiar with how the underlying stress response...

Graves’ Disease: Natural Treatment Considerations

Saul Marcus, ND Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease that produces hyperthyroidism. I got started working with Graves’ disease patients by writing a series of web pages on hypothyroidism. Without thinking much about it, I included a few paragraphs about Graves’...

Grief Recovery & Bedside Manner: Feelings First

Russell P. Friedman The Grief Recovery Institute (of which I’m the executive director) has been connected to the funeral industry for more than 35 years. We’ve also been linked with the clergy from all religions, since they are also at the forefront when there’s been...

Endometriosis: Preserving Fertility By Treating It Holistically

Amy Day, ND When a woman presents to her allopathic doctor seeking help for managing her endometriosis (endo), nearly every treatment offered to her will impair her fertility. Hysterectomy, hormonal contraceptives, levonogestrel-releasing-IUD, and leuprolide...

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Optimizing Healthy Aging for Older Adults

Optimizing Healthy Aging for Older Adults

Insights from a Case Series Using a Novel Supplement Regimen Jen Palmer, ND; Joseph M. Keenan, MD Dietary supplements can provide older adults a therapeutic option for maintaining optimal health without relying on prescription drugs. This article summarizes key...

Selective Toxicity of Vitamin C to Cancer Cells

A vital aspect of high-dose vitamin C therapy is its selective toxicity towards cancer cells. Cancer cells are uniquely susceptible due to their inherently higher levels of oxidative stress and reactive iron. At therapeutic concentrations, intravenous vitamin C...

Gut Bacteria Directly Trigger Chronic Pain in Fibromyalgia

Gut microbes from patients rapidly activate immune responses and nerve changes that drive lasting, unexplained pain. Gut Microbes Influence Chronic Pain and Immunity Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread pain throughout the body, often...

Healthy Gut, Healthy Blood: Gut Health Shown to Prevent Leukemia

Naturopathic medicine has long emphasized digestive health as foundational to robust immune function. Early naturopathic physicians drew inspiration from pioneering microbiologist Elie Metchnikoff, who proposed in the early 1900s that beneficial gut bacteria are...

Using Tools Increases Language and Communication Ability

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND Complex sentences is one of the most difficult language skills to acquire. In 2019, research had revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study, by researchers from...

Premature Pubarche: A Precursor of Future Health Issues?

MOLLY JARCHOW ND, LM Premature pubarche (PP), the premature development of pubic hair, is a common presentation in pediatric practice and tends to affect many more girls than boys. PP is defined as pubic or axillary hair development in girls under the age of 8 and in...

Notes from the Field: January 2022

JARED L. ZEFF, ND, VNMI, LAC  The following is 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 field. It’s not meant to be...

Could Current Heart Attack Treatment Damage Heart Further?

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Indiana University School of Medicine- A study led by Indiana University School of Medicine is challenging standard treatment methods used to prevent muscle damage during heart attack. In a paper published in the high impact Journal of...

Rise in Cancer Deaths to 10 Million

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation- Cancer deaths rose to 10 million and new cases jumped to over 23 million globally in 2019, according to a new scientific study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the...

Hormone Health: Support for Breast Cancer Survivors

KAYCIE GRIGEL, ND No matter what specialty you choose, if you see women in your practice, you will see breast cancer survivors. One in every 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.1 Fortunately, many women receive treatment...

Cannabis and Women’s Health: A History- Part 2

JAKE F. FELICE, ND, LMP  In last month’s issue of NDNR, I reviewed historical accounts that indicated widespread use of cannabis for women’s health throughout ancient China, Egypt and Sumer, Israel/Palestine, and the Middle East, as well as in early European...

Avoiding Thyroid Confusion: 10 Reasons for Thyroid Lab Fluctuations 

ALAN CHRISTIANSON, NMD, FABNE If you manage thyroid medications for your patients, you’ve probably seen their labs fluctuate unexpectedly. Most of us were not taught the reasons that thyroid levels would change aside from medications and internal thyroid output. Yet...

A Model to Predict Lifetime Risk of Heart Failure

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University- Imagine visiting the doctor, answering a few basic questions and getting an on-the-spot estimate of whether you'll experience heart failure in the next 30 years. Such a model now exists, thanks to a new...

Rise in Cancer Deaths to 10 Million

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation- Cancer deaths rose to 10 million and new cases jumped to over 23 million globally in 2019, according to a new scientific study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the...

Hormone Health: Support for Breast Cancer Survivors

KAYCIE GRIGEL, ND No matter what specialty you choose, if you see women in your practice, you will see breast cancer survivors. One in every 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.1 Fortunately, many women receive treatment...

Cannabis and Women’s Health: A History- Part 2

JAKE F. FELICE, ND, LMP  In last month’s issue of NDNR, I reviewed historical accounts that indicated widespread use of cannabis for women’s health throughout ancient China, Egypt and Sumer, Israel/Palestine, and the Middle East, as well as in early European...

Avoiding Thyroid Confusion: 10 Reasons for Thyroid Lab Fluctuations 

ALAN CHRISTIANSON, NMD, FABNE If you manage thyroid medications for your patients, you’ve probably seen their labs fluctuate unexpectedly. Most of us were not taught the reasons that thyroid levels would change aside from medications and internal thyroid output. Yet...

A Model to Predict Lifetime Risk of Heart Failure

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University- Imagine visiting the doctor, answering a few basic questions and getting an on-the-spot estimate of whether you'll experience heart failure in the next 30 years. Such a model now exists, thanks to a new...

Increasing Choline During Pregnancy Increases Attention of Child

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Cornell University- Seven-year-old children performed better on a challenging task requiring sustained attention if their mothers consumed twice the recommended amount of choline during their pregnancy, a new Cornell study has found. The...

Genetic Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Baylor College of Medicine- The brain has a natural protective mechanism against Alzheimer's disease, and researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating institutions have discovered that gene...

Graphene Becomes Superconductor at Specific Angle and Temperature

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Brown University- When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are stacked together at a particular angle with respect to each other, it gives rise to some fascinating physics. For instance, when this so-called "magic-angle...

Ketamine for Alcoholism

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From The University of Exeter- People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The Ketamine for reduction...

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