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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 [...]