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High-Quality Research Validates Beef’s Role in Heart-Healthy Diet
Study Shows Past Anti-Beef Research May Have Been Biased A landmark clinical trial analysis revealed that common concerns about beef consumption and heart health may have been influenced by lower-quality research. This comprehensive review found that unprocessed beef...
Green Tea Compound Prevents Age-Related Heart Problems in New Study
Daily EGCG Supplement Restores Heart Function to Youthful Levels Scientists have discovered that a key compound from green tea can protect aging hearts from losing function, potentially offering a simple way to prevent heart problems in older adults. The study found...
Physical Activity and Diet Help Keep Brains “Younger” Than Actual Age
Active Lifestyle Reduces Brain Age Gap by Up to 45% in 70-Year-Olds A groundbreaking study of healthy 70-year-olds reveals that lifestyle choices dramatically influence whether our brains appear "older" or "younger" than our actual age. Scientists found that regular...
Diet Change Slows Prostate Cancer Growth in Clinical Trial
39% Difference in Cancer Cell Growth Between Diet Groups A targeted diet low in omega-6 and high in omega-3 fatty acids, plus fish oil supplements, significantly slowed prostate cancer cell growth in men with early-stage disease. The UCLA-led clinical trial...
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Addressing a Deeper Etiology: A Follow-up on ACEs
Paul Epstein, ND Sonia Malani Tolle Causam Practical Integration of the Mind, Body, and Spirit Students come to naturopathic medical school with an empty toolkit and a vast amount of curiosity. As students, we aspire to obtain a spectrum of healing principles to take...
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March 2014 | Anxiety, Depression and Insomnia
Volume 10 Issue 3 The Antidepressant Myth: The Neurotransmitter--- Mental Illness Disconnect..................................>> cover Daniel Heller, ND Common Supplements for Anxiety........................................................>> bottom of...
Cold Feet and Water-Treading
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE If the feet are neglected, the whole body suffers. Father Sebastian Kneipp, 1901, p.178 Nothing else can be more recommended to young and old than walking bare-footed in snow. Father Sebastian Kneipp, 1904, p.38 It may appear a simple matter...
Connecting the Cell & the Self: A Mind-Body Approach to Anxiety & Depression
Paul Epstein, ND Nicola St. Mary, ND There are many naturopathic approaches to anxiety and depression. This article will focus on mind-body therapeutic interventions, including mindfulness and mind-body counseling. These modalities have been shown to enhance cellular,...
Mood and Leaky Gut: From Science Fiction to Scientific Fact
Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc Anxiety disorders are the most common of the psychiatric illnesses in the United States, with approximately 30% of Americans experiencing anxiety-related symptoms during their lifetime,1 and 18% having an anxiety disorder.2 According to the...
Uprooting Anxiety
Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common illness that can disrupt quality of life and impact overall sustainable wellness. Anxiety in patients presents as a mood disorder or can present with physical symptoms only. Because of its...
Beware of Recreating Your Past
This is the “New Normal” Jon Bohm Be careful of going back to what you once were instead of moving forward to what you have yet to become. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.” Kahlil...
Balancing a Symphony of Hormones
One Woman’s Journey Rian Shah, ND Carla came to see me one bright morning as a new patient. Her main complaints were night sweats, hot flashes so bad as to “make me want to strip down naked in the grocery store,” depression, worsening joint pain and osteopenia, weight...
Passionflower and Lemon Balm
Their Roles in Sleep Mandana Edalati, ND Most people are familiar with the occasional tossing and turning in bed, but when this occurs on a chronic basis, it becomes more than just a nuisance. Sleep affects every cell, organ, and system in the body. It affects...
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Lifespan Blueprint Created at Conception: First Moments Determine Lifelong Health
New Research Shows Pregnancy Health Begins at Fertilization with Critical Cellular Signals According to groundbreaking research from an international team of scientists, human health begins at the exact moment of conception. The study published in Nature...
Microplastics Boost Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics
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Co-Treating Asthma Patients with Supplements
Evidence for Combination Therapy By Jordan Robertson This article reviews the evidence supporting the integration of nutritional supplements, such as vitamin D, magnesium, and fish oil, in asthma management. Learn how naturopathic approaches can enhance control and...
FDA and FTC Issue Warning Letters to 10 Companies Over Unlawful Diabetes Supplement Claims
March 20, 2025 – In a recent joint action, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warning letters to 10 companies accused of illegally marketing dietary supplements with unproven claims to treat, cure, mitigate, or...
Your Brain’s ‘Fingerprint?’
NODE SMITH, ND "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It's been my whole life for five years now," says Enrico Amico, a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL's Medical Image Processing Laboratory and the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. He's...
Remembering Stressful Situations is Easier
NODE SMITH, ND Stressful experiences are usually remembered more easily than neutral experiences. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have analyzed the reasons why this is the case. They put people in stressful situations during simulated job interviews and...
New App Rates Healthy Food from 1 – 100
NODE SMITH, ND A scientific team at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts has developed a new tool to help consumers, food companies, restaurants, and cafeterias choose and produce healthier foods and officials to make sound public nutrition...
Spouses Health Tends to Mirror Each Other
NODE SMITH, ND A couple's health is surprisingly intertwined according to a recent cohort study that looked at Dutch and Japanese marriages. The study discovered that spouses have a high degree of commonality in not only lifestyle habits, but body shape, blood...
Air Pollution & Heart Failure: Hospital Readmissions Show Clear Link
JACOB SCHOR, ND, FABNO Consider how cause and effect might apply to mouse traps. It is easy to assume that mouse traps are associated with greater murine mortality, and based on this, you might advise mice to avoid them. The association is clearly...
Wired for Self-Healing- Part 3
JAMES SENSENIG, ND LOUISE EDWARDS, ND, LAC This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy through...
Integrative Tobacco Cessation: A Case Study
JULIE RHODES, ND, MS Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States.1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 20.8% of...
Think Beets, Not Meat! Vegetarian Diets and Cardiovascular Health
STEPHEN W. PARCELL, ND There is good scientific data supporting the role of diet in the prevention of disease, especially cardiovascular disease. Many of the foods we grew up eating – foods that are a part of our cultural food...
The Mental Health Repercussions for ‘Wandering Thoughts’
NODE SMITH, ND Where does your mind wander when you have idle time? A University of Arizona-led study published in Scientific Reports may offer some clues, and the findings reveal a surprising amount about our mental health. 78 participants were trained to voice their...
Active Learning Still the Most Effective
NODE SMITH, ND Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic performance compared to traditional lectures, lessons or readings, faculty from Carnegie Mellon University's...
Wired for Self-Healing- Part 3
JAMES SENSENIG, ND LOUISE EDWARDS, ND, LAC This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy through...
Integrative Tobacco Cessation: A Case Study
JULIE RHODES, ND, MS Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States.1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 20.8% of...
Think Beets, Not Meat! Vegetarian Diets and Cardiovascular Health
STEPHEN W. PARCELL, ND There is good scientific data supporting the role of diet in the prevention of disease, especially cardiovascular disease. Many of the foods we grew up eating – foods that are a part of our cultural food...
The Mental Health Repercussions for ‘Wandering Thoughts’
NODE SMITH, ND Where does your mind wander when you have idle time? A University of Arizona-led study published in Scientific Reports may offer some clues, and the findings reveal a surprising amount about our mental health. 78 participants were trained to voice their...
Active Learning Still the Most Effective
NODE SMITH, ND Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic performance compared to traditional lectures, lessons or readings, faculty from Carnegie Mellon University's...
Blinding Macular Degeneration May be Driven by Toxic DNA
NODE SMITH, ND Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals. Based on...
A Million Vacations: Increasing Resilience in Naturopathic Medical Students
FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND You can only drive down Main Street so many times… And a million vacations is what you’ve got in mind. (Max Webster, a Canadian rock band) Nobody ever said medical school would be...
Biological Age Reversal: A Research Study from NUNM’s Helfgott Research Institute
NODE SMITH, ND An exciting new research study was recently conducted by our very own naturopathic medical research facility, NUNM’s Helfgott Research Institute, in Portland, Oregon.1 The study, which was published on April...
Notes from the Field: April, 2021
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...
Mushrooms May Help Lower Depression
NODE SMITH, ND Mushrooms have been making headlines due to their many health advantages. Not only do they lower one's risk of cancer and premature death, but new research led by Penn State College of Medicine also reveals that these superfoods may benefit a person's...
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