TREVOR CATES, ND  As our body’s largest and most visible organ, skin gives us outer clues about what’s happening inside the body. This includes hormonal imbalances. Acknowledging and working [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2021 Student Scholarship – Third Place Case Study  PRINCESS BURNETT  JENNIFER GREEN, ND  Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease in which the immune [...]

AMY CHADWICK, ND Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound way it ripens and deepens us. While grief is an [...]

NODE SMITH, ND Expectant women are more likely to give birth early if they have high blood levels of a chemical used in flame retardants compared with those who have limited exposure, a new study [...]

Tolle Totum Deborah McKay, ND I view the menopausal transition as “puberty in reverse,” complete with shifts in hormones that dictate bodily changes. In some cases this hormonal shift can hijack [...]

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Elena Krasnov, BSc, ND A 55-year-old female patient presented with a sharp pain in the throat area, which began in January 2016 and had lasted over 3 weeks by the time she [...]

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 [...]

Amy Tung, ND Medical Resources for NDs: A Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry According to the American Thyroid Association, nearly 20 million Americans suffer from [...]