Category: Conditions
Conscious Kids Conscious Money
You taught them how to read and how to ride a bike, but have you taught your children how to manage money?
Since they probably don’t have much of it, [...]
Better Food Better Behavior
Would you like to see remarkable improvements in your children’s learning and behavior? Take a look at their diets–at home and at school.
A case st [...]
Does My Child Have Food Allergies?
Constipation, diarrhea, hives, rashes, eczema, dark circles around the eyes, sneezing, runny nose, coughing and wheezing, ear infections, poor weight [...]
How to Have a Healthy Pregnancy
Having a baby is a natural and beautiful process. It is a blessing. However, for many women it can be a stressful time. Stress can contribute to a mor [...]
Is Stress Making You Fat?
The answer is YES. Stress can be exactly what is causing you to keep putting on weight even though you have been making healthy dietary choices and e [...]
Do You Really Know What Hormones Do?
As Sue thought about her upcoming anniversary celebration, it was with mixed emotions. She was really looking forward to an evening out with her husba [...]
Keeping an Eye on Healthy Vision
The day we learned how to perform an eye exam in medical school was unforgettable. I walked into class expecting to see eye charts, to watch pupils di [...]
Age Defying Foods to Savor Now
Growing older is a desirable biological process (consider the alternative!), and our senior years should be a wonderful time of life with minimum stre [...]
Symptoms of Sleep Deprivation
Anyone who has ever felt tired in the morning or dozed off in a meeting knows that sleep is important. In fact, getting enough is vital to your well-b [...]
Nutritional Enzyme Therapy for Cancer
Most people are familiar with the word “oncology,” and for many it is an area of medicine that evokes anxiety or fear. Cancer is a degenerative diseas [...]
Drugless Healing of PTSD
PTSD: it’s an acronym that hardly needs explaining these days. It seems that every week another horrific event occurs for which post-traumatic stress [...]
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Current Research on the Role of Diet and Nutrition
The incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) in the United States continues to skyrocket, and is currently estimated to be 1 in 88 American child [...]
Chronic Sinusitis; Beyond the Decongestants
For those who suffer from chronic sinus inflammation, it can become life altering. Headaches, postnasal drip and sinus pressure are just some of the s [...]
Lyme Disease: The Great Debate
Amazingly the debate continues. Is Lyme disease simply an acute illness that only requires 3 weeks of antibiotics to as little as a single dose of ant [...]
Natural Strategies for Reducing Chronic Pain
Every one of us has experienced some kind of pain in our lives, whether it is headaches, back pain or joint pain. For many of us, this pain is persist [...]
Functional Lab Testing… What Can We Learn?
Debra Gibson, N.D.
The plot of The Fantastic Voyage, a science-fiction movie from the 1960’s, centers on the adventures of a group of scientists wh [...]
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Alleviating Symptoms of Rheumatiod Arthritis
Chinese herbal medicine offers the oldest and the most advanced system of herbal medicine in the world today. Complex herbal formulas are standard tre [...]
Catching your ZZZ’s
Catching your ZZZ’s is more important than you may think! Restful sleep has been shown to improve mood and memory, maintain a healthy body weight and [...]
WHY ARE WE ATTACKING OURSELVES?
The prevalence of autoimmune disease is on the rise with more than 23.5 million Americans being affected. A predicament exists in that our immune sys [...]
Heart Health: For Women Only
Vicki Kobliner MS RD CD-N
It is not breast cancer but heart disease that claims the lives of the greatest number of women every year. Whi [...]
Integrative Health Care… The Future of Healthcare in America
I consider myself to be a typical medical doctor practicing traditional allopathic western medicine in America. I’ve taken care of thousands of patien [...]
Manual Therapy and Nutritional Wellness for GI-Related Pain
Food is an intrinsic part of most cultures. Whether it is ‘inhaled’ or savored, in small or large quantities, it has been known to define us in many w [...]
Curb Blood Vessel Inflammation to Decrease Cardiovascular Risk
Kara Burkhart, ND
Cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer in the United States. Classic risk factors for cardiovascular di [...]
Cold and numb Numb hands Hands and Feet; Raynaud’s Phenomenon… How to Treat
Ashley Burkman, ND
Raynaud’s (pronounced rey-nohz), named after the French doctor who first described this certain set of symptoms, is ch [...]