Botanicals for Graves’ Disease  An Herbal Case Study  BRIAN KEENAN, ND, LAC  During my early years as a clinical intern I was tasked with seeing a new patient who was considered [...]

Node Smith, ND A plant-based diet may alleviate painful symptoms associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a new review published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition. Plant-based [...]

Docere  Heather Herington, BSc, NMD, DHANP There’s nothing like having your own “incurable” disease to sense the impact of naturopathic medicine, especially when you – a naturopathic doctor – [...]

Docere Guillermo Ruiz, NMD Alan Christianson, NMD Thyrotropin, also known as thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), is the signal secreted from the thyrotrophic cells of the anterior pituitary in [...]

Cheryl Kasdorf, ND The thyroid is the central gear in the complex web of metabolism and extremely sensitive to minor imbalances in other areas of physiology. An astute clinician should always ask [...]

Sarah A. LoBisco, ND Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the leading cause of hypothyroidism in the United States.1 It is one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune disorders of the thyroid, [...]

Cheryl A. Kasdorf, NMD “Homeostasis is the establishment of a balanced relationship between the dietary, hormonal, and nervous functions (systems) of the body. The purpose, therefore, in [...]

Lorilee Schoenbeck, ND Americans are having children later than ever. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that between 1960 and 2005, the primiparous woman’s average age at delivery rose from 20 to [...]