Targeting sleep disorders to improve patient heart health
Photo Cred: Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels By Catherine Darley, ND Heart disease is a leading cause of death in Americans, with 2020 statistics accounting for 690,000 deaths in twelve months. As integrative practitioners,...
Read MoreLifestyle tips for boosting the immune system naturally
Photo Cred: Miguel Á. Padriñán/Pexels By Melissa Carr, BSc, DrTCM For healthcare workers, catching a regular cold used to be a relatively small inconvenience, it is now much more disruptive....
Read MoreResearchers say focus must shift from “food security” to “nutrition security”
Photo Cred: Samantha Higgins/World Central Kitchen By Katherine Shagoury Researchers from Tufts University and Georgetown University are calling for a new approach to address food and nutrition inequities, in a...
Read MoreTaoist tenets applied to modern health promotion
Photo Cred: Eternal Happiness/Pexels By Bill Reddy, LAc, DiplAc The foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can be traced to Taoist philosophy. Taoism, also known as Daoism, can be considered...
Read MoreLingering pathogen syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Photo Cred: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels By Melissa Carr, BSc, DrTCM In my practice. I’ve had patients come to me with ongoing symptoms from an illness they experienced years prior. In Traditional...
Read MoreApproaching SIBO treatment with naturopathic medicine
Photo Cred: Mikhail Nilov/Pexels By Kim Furtado, ND When I began my practice twenty years ago, small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) was not commonly tested for or diagnosed. Over time,...
Read MoreMultidisciplinary care needed for COVID-19 long-haulers, study finds
Photo Cred: Olga Kononenko/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury A new review published in the journal Nature Medicine offers an initial glimpse of the multi-organ effects of long-term novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and suggests a...
Read MoreHolistic approaches to treating restless legs syndrome
Photo Cred: Kristin Vogt/Pexels By Catherine Darley, ND I recently had a patient, a 57-year-old man who, every evening at about 7 p.m., started feeling antsy, like he had to move...
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