Articles by Shari Barbanel
Dr. Isaac Eliaz Joins Natural Practitioner Advisory Board
Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc has recently joined Natural Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Eliaz has been a recognized expert in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980s, with a specific focus on cancer, immune health, detoxification and mind-body medicine. He is a respected formulator, clinician, researcher, author and educator. As part of ...
Nutrition Researchers Develop the Healthy Beverage Index
Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new scoring method for assessing beverage intake, the Healthy Beverage Index (HBI). In a report published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics they describe how this tool can be used to more accurately evaluate dietary consumption of all types of fluids. They found that ...
Nordic Naturals ‘One + One = More’ Campaign Benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters
On July 1, Nordic Naturals (Watsonville, CA) kicked off the back-to-school season with the “One + One = More” campaign to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS), a nationwide non-profit organization that serves children ages 6 through 18. From July through September 2015, every time a consumer purchases a bottle of Nordic Naturals ...
Cyrex Laboratories Launches Array 3
Cyrex Laboratories (Phoenix, AZ), a clinical laboratory specializing in functional immunology and autoimmunity, has launched its Array 3 Wheat/Gluten Proteome Reactivity and Autoimmunity test panel to provide health care professionals with accurate results in identifying their patients’ gluten reactivity and related autoimmunity. Cyrex Array 3 is the only wheat/gluten panel that assesses three antigen triggers ...
FTC Hosts Workshop on Advertising of Homeopathic Products
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a public workshop on September 21, 2015 in Washington, D.C., to examine advertising for over-the-counter (OTC) homeopathic products. According to the FTC, during the last few decades, the homeopathic drug industry in the United States has grown considerably from a multimillion-dollar to a multibillion-dollar market. In that time, ...
Hevert Stress Relief
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Metagenics to Hold 4th Annual Lifestyle Medicine Summit
Metagenics, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA) will host its fourth annual Lifestyle Medicine Summit held at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, AZ on September 25-27, 2015. The theme for the 2015 Lifestyle Medicine Summit is “Healthy Aging—100% Vitality for Your First 100 years: Restoring and Maintaining Optimal Health.” This landmark ...
Addressing Stress and Depression
Natural practitioners are taking a personalized approach when it comes to dealing with their patients’ stress and depression. Everyone has dealt with stress at some point. But according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), seven out of 10 adults in the U.S. say they experience stress or anxiety daily, while one-third have ...
NCNM Receives $3,092,898 for NIH Research Grants
The National Institutes of Health (NCNM, Portland, OR), through the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), has awarded $3,092,898 to the Helfgott Research Institute at NCNM for two five-year complementary integrative health (CIH) research grants. The new grants will provide funding for studies involving mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis; ...
MHICN Collaborates on Innovative Study Focused on Methylation and Patient Outcomes
The Metagenics Healthcare Institute for Clinical Nutrition (MHICN, Gig Harbor, WA) recently announced an expanded clinical research program in collaboration with Erasmus Medical Center and ErasmusAGE (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). This project will expand the current work on cardiometabolic and women’s health issues to now include nutrigenomic and epigenomic influences on the health status in both ...
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