Natural Support for the Olfactory Nerve
Anosmia, or loss of smell, is a common symptom of numerous upper respiratory infections, and in some cases can persist long after the infection resolves.
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The Case for Solomon’s Seal
While science can discover new uses for plants, and prove what we already know, it often seems that in the realm of botanical medicine, there is tremendous pressure to use science from a defensive position, to justify the new “alternative” practice of continuing to do something that has worked for generations. From a world-historical perspective, the bizarre modern experiment of not using plants as the primary source of our medicines is in fact the alternative practice.
Seasonal Transitions – Mood
The seasonal transition to autumn brings with it cooler days and darker nights, but while some relish this change it can also wreak havoc on patients with certain mood disorders. The remarkable association between winter darkness and depression has been termed seasonal affective disorder, but the onset of autumn can affect other mood disorders as well. Less well-known is the autumn spike in manic episodes for patients with bipolar disorder, a condition increasingly recognized to follow complex seasonal patterns.
Are New Plant-Based Burgers Causing Digestive Problems?
Sometimes, treating digestive disorders can require unraveling a complex tangle of interrelated psychological, immunological, and gastroenterological factors. It can involve identifying and addressing such problems as hypochlorhydria, histamine intolerance, hiatal hernia, microscopic colitis, ileocecal valve dysfunction, or a microbiome devastated by multiple rounds of antibiotics. Other times, the most intractable digestive disorders can be effectively addressed by simply eliminating one particular food trigger from the diet.
What’s Causing the Myopia Epidemic?
The prevalence of myopia, or an inability to see distance objects clearly, has skyrocketed in young children over the last year. After optometrists noticed an alarming increase in the number of children needing corrective lenses, a study published by the American Medical Association found that myopia has doubled and in some places
Taurine’s Underappreciated Role in the Nervous System
Given the rapidly aging population, there is an increasing demand for methods to support healthy brain aging and address the changes in cognitive function often associated therewith.
SUPPORT AFTER CORTICOSTEROIDS
Although corticosteroid withdrawal is a verified phenomenon, and has been reported in some cases to persist as long as 6-12 months[i], patients are not supposed to be experiencing side effects years after discontinuing their medication. Yet, sometimes patients report stubborn weight gain, beginning while taking a course of corticosteroids, which never went away and seems to resist all efforts to reverse.
Is Choline Truly Essential?
Known at one time as vitamin B4, before being stripped of its essential status, choline is a molecule required by every cell, being especially important for mitochondrial energy production, fetal neurological development, and healthy liver function. It also plays an underappreciated role in the methylation cycle, which bears upon everything from gene expression to cardiovascular health. So it seems inexplicable that such an important molecule could lose its vitamin status.
Detox Paradox – from St. John’s Wort to Grapefruit
The herb St. John’s wort is shrouded in folklore. Its very name is a reference to Saint John the Baptist whose feast day was chosen by the early Christian church to replace Litha, the pagan festival of midsummer. This figure likely became the herb’s namesake due to the ancient magical belief that, as a source of solary virtue, it was best when gathered at noon on midsummer’s day when the sun’s influence is at its strongest.
INTACT LUNG: A NATURAL SOURCE OF VITAMIN C AND COLLAGEN
From its humble beginnings as the basis of glue and gelatin desserts, collagen is rapidly becoming one of the most promising food-based dietary supplements. Research has already shown that oral collagen supplementation is effective to support wound healing and healthy skin aging with a capacity to increase skin hydration, skin elasticity, and dermal collagen density . Because collagen plays an important role in maintaining the elasticity of the skin, collagen support has become one of the cornerstones of anti-aging medicine.
Webinar 1/21/21 Stress and Blues
Begabati Lennihan, RN, CCH will discuss how homeopathy can enhance your practice by often providing faster relief than supplements can; both modalities work well together. Stress from our world situation is colliding now with wintertime blues. Learn tips from an experienced homeopath – how to simplify the choices, demystify the myths, and more easily get good results for your patients.
Webinar on Demand Now
Our own in-house naturopathic doctor, Dr. Laurell Matthews, ND has created an immune products spotlight presentation about some of our latest products to come out. It is on-demand now for a limited time if you would like to watch.
Guarding Against a Zinc-Copper Imbalance
With zinc supplementation on the rise - driven by an interest in immune support - it is important to keep in mind a potential downside of taking excess zinc which is copper deficiency resulting from a zinc-copper imbalance. Copper deficiency is relatively uncommon and is typically only seen in conjunction with genetic disorders of metabolism and certain malabsorption syndromes but it can also be induced by overly zealous zinc supplementation.
Weight Loss Tips
The winter holidays are a time when many people gain weight, shortly after which many people will make resolutions to lose weight. To this end they may consult the medical profession, and unfortunately conventional medicine’s approach to weight loss is as misguided as its approach to most health matters.
LIVER’S MYSTERIOUS ANTI-FATIGUE FACTOR
It tends to be taken for granted that all of our vitamins have been discovered, and yet the entire notion of vitamins is a relatively recent phenomenon. Perhaps because diets were once held relatively constant over generations by their tradition of proven effectiveness, and were comprised of foods much less processed and tampered-with than many of today’s, it seemed that all you had to do was eat the very same foods that kept your parents alive and healthy enough to produce you, and everything would be fine.
Brief Guide to Monolaurin
In essence, monolaurin is a concentrated form of the immune-supporting elements1 of coconut oil. Native cultures in the tropics have long since recognized coconut oil not only as a healthy food, but as a beneficial topical application as well.
Vitamin A: The Forgotten Key to Immune Support
As we move into autumn, seasonal allergies will once more rear their ugly head. While the seasonal pattern of allergic rhinitis is well-known, autumn can also be a time of aggravation for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Interestingly, IBS is reportedly more commonly in patients with allergic symptoms
Vitamin E: An Underappreciated Tool to Support Men’s Health
It has been known for quite some time now that testosterone levels in modern men are falling, a phenomenon which, while unexplained, still has important implications for men’s health. Despite the fact that testosterone replacement therapy remains a controversial subject in medicine, men’s health clinics are popping up everywhere that do essentially nothing more than prescribe testosterone to aging men.
New Rules for Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels
With the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) release of new rules for nutrition and supplement facts panels, many nutrient measurement units have been revised. These changes are now in effect, and you will begin to see them appearing on labels.
IS ACNE A VITAMIN DEFICIENCY DISEASE?
Acne is one of the most common skin problems prompting visits to dermatologists and also one of the most stubbornly difficult medical conditions to treat.
COVID-19, Bats, and the 5G Rollout
The year 2019 saw the deployment of 5G cellular networks worldwide, and while COVID-19 continues to occupy the center of everyone’s attention, the consequences of the 5G rollout on those with electromagnetic field (EMF) sensitivities have gone relatively unnoticed.
THE SODIUM CONNECTION WITH MIGRAINES
Although migraines are considered a neurological, not a gynecological, disorder, it is interesting that the majority of migraine sufferers happen to be women.
THE TURPENTINE TREND: A POISON OR THE ULTIMATE ESSENTIAL OIL?
In a bizarre echo of the ludicrous snake oil treatments that were prevalent in the 19th century, it has become a recent fad in alternative medicine to take turpentine. Yes turpentine, that distillate of pine tar most famous for its use as paint thinner, is now being touted much as it was by the doctors of long ago, as a sovereign cure for parasites with the astounding ability to somehow benefit just about every medical condition.
IS FLUORIDE AN ESSENTIAL NUTRIENT, AND IF NOT, CAN IT BE DETOXIFIED?
Fluoride is not actually an essential nutrient. That is, your body could have not a single molecule of fluoride anywhere in it, and you would be completely healthy. So why is fluoride considered an important nutrient?