Node Smith, ND Small toys and other small items can present a hazard to small children who like to put them in their mouths and may try to swallow them. The biggest hazard, or concern, is that an [...]

How to ensure excretion and prevent toxicity. Kristen Haabala, ND There is no doubt that obesity is an ever-increasing epidemic in the United States. Roughly 35% of the adult population and [...]

Docere Mona Morstein, ND Clostridium difficile is the only anaerobe bacteria that causes a nosocomial risk. First identified in 1935, it was not until the 1970s that the C difficile toxins were [...]

Marnie Loomis, ND A bumper sticker reading “The road to health is paved with good intestines” was stuck on the old door of the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) faculty office suite, in [...]

Carol Jamison, ND I can easily picture this highly intelligent dynamic woman gently taking a small sick South American child and his family into a prominent surgeon’s office and demanding [...]

Sussanna Czeranko, ND What is wrong with most people is that they want to eat things that are not good for them, they want to drink things that are not good for them, and they want to do things [...]

Sue Plummer, PhD Iveta Garaiova, PhD Marija Pevac-Djukic, MD(Serbia), ND(Canada) For centuries living microorganisms, particularly lactic acid bacteria (producers of lactic acid from sugar), have [...]

Gaia J. Mather, ND Constipation is often treated more like an inconvenience rather than an overwhelming problem until it becomes just that, a serious problem. I view constipation as a life [...]

Jessica Mitchell, ND Naturopathic treatment offers very effective remedies for most common pediatric gastrointestinal ailments. This article reviews four common ailments and several treatments [...]