Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Eastern Finland is the first in the world to show that the serum metabolite profile can be used to identify individuals likely at risk of [...]

Naturopathic Perspective Greg Eckel, ND, LAc In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on The Shaking Palsy. In 1911, levodopa was first synthesized by Casimir Funk, though it didn’t enter into [...]

Tolle Totum Lisa Ghent, ND Atopic diseases are a collection of problems that arise when the immune system has an exaggerated IgE-mediated response to what are normally harmless antigens.1 Atopic [...]

Shaida Sina, ND Cardiovascular risk is a real issue for patients with metabolic syndrome. Chart 1 shows screening flags for metabolic syndrome that should draw your attention to possible future [...]

Shaida Sina, ND Metabolic syndrome is relatively new to the conventional world of medicine; many doctors are still unfamiliar with it. Conventional criteria for diagnosing metabolic syndrome [...]

Shaida Sina, ND It is astounding to me that nearly half of my patients have metabolic syndrome. As I thought about the disorder’s complexity, I realized that the myriad symptoms of metabolic [...]