Articles by Lisa Schofield
Out With The Old
Internal cleansing and detoxifying supplements can greatly assist everyone to achieve optimal wellness and better health. Imagine living every moment in your life—the special and the mundane—carrying around a full, festering trashbag. Gross, right? Except this is exactly what millions of Americans are indeed doing: carrying around chemical debris that piles up and festers inside. ...
Sense & Sensitivity
Food sensitivities and allergies are abounding in modern society. We all need to eat to live. But sometimes, eating something can be deadly at worst, or annoying at the least. A 2013 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that between 1997 and 2011, food allergies in children increased by 50 percent. ...
The Eyes Have It
Modern living has created new vision challenges; here’s how to help. The idea of losing one’s sight is one of the scariest prospects. One 2007 online forum queried college students about what one of the five senses would they give up—not one responded “sight.” It was a toss-up between taste and smell. Another interesting informal ...
Going With the Flow
Hormonal changes impact women daily—natural practitioners can assist vibrant women to live their best lives. Women don’t actually feel their hormones surging or retreating, but they sure do feel the symptoms. For some, those symptoms may be simply attributed to stress, over exercise, or a meal that is disagreeable. Symptoms of hormonal fluctuations at any ...
Righting A Listing Ship: Immune Health Support
Modern lifestyle factors continue to unbalance immune function—here’s how to utilize supplements to help your clients/patients align immunity for healthy functioning. Reality TV competition (talent) shows often reward each episode’s challenge winners with the phrase, “You have immunity and cannot be eliminated next round.” The judges are unquestioningly linking “immunity” with “safety.” It’s a relevant ...
Empowerment Through Education
Embracing your inner lifelong student will help keep you and your practice on point, and foster a healthier community. The oft-quoted assertion from 16th century English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, “Knowledge is power,” is and should be a lively undercurrent of any practice. Medical research in multifarious disciplines continues at a rapid clip, and health ...
Defining the Role of a Health Practice
Participants include: • Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, Kona, HI, www.endfatigue.com • Cheryl Burdette, ND, Progressive Medical, Atlanta, GA, www.progressivemedicalcenter.com • Sara Gottfried, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Gottfried Institute for Functional Medicine, Berkeley, CA, www.saragottfriedmd.com • Holly Lucille, ND, Healing from Within Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA, www.drhollylucille.com For many patients and clients, the concept of ...
So Personal
While the model of “personalized medicine” is growing among natural practitioners, there is no consensus of what the practice entails just yet. Participants include: • Carolyn F. A. Dean, MD ND Maui, HI, Author of Death by Modern Medicine, www.rnareset.com, www.drcarolyndean.com • Michael A. Smith, MD, Senior Health Scientist, Life Extension, Fort Lauderdale, FL, www.lifeextension.com The ...
Addressing Hormonal Imbalances
Hormonal imbalances are not so easy to spot. Natural practitioners help reveal symptoms and successfully address them with supplementation. When most of your clients or patients think of overall health/wellness and a sense of vigor, they believe it’s due solely to a healthy immune system. And yes, of course, they are right. However, they should ...
Focusing on Fibromyalgia
Natural practitioners can help their patients with fibromyalgia address the symptoms head on. Fibromyalgia has been recognized by physicians since the early 1800s, but it wasn’t until 1981 when the first scientific study confirmed that its symptoms were found in the body, according to Fibrocenter.com. Soon after, in 1990, the American College of Rheumatology composed ...
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