Articles by Shari Barbanel
NCCAOM Announces Mina Larson as Incoming CEO
The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) Board of Commissioners has announce that they have selected Mina M. Larson, NCCAOM’s former deputy executive director from a wide list of nationwide candidates, as its new CEO, effective July 22, 2019. Former CEO, Dr. Kory Ward-Cook, will stay on through December 2019 to assist with the ...
Healthy Lifestyle May Offset Genetic Risk of Dementia
Living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to new research. The study was led by the University of Exeter—simultaneously published in JAMA and presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. The research found that the risk of dementia was 32 percent lower in people with ...
Poor Sleep Quality and Fatigue Plague Women With Premature Ovarian Insufficiency
Sleep disturbances are a frequent complaint of women in the menopause transition and postmenopause. A new study demonstrates that women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) who are receiving hormone therapy have poorer sleep quality and greater fatigue than women of the same age with preserved ovarian function. Study results are published online in Menopause, the journal ...
House of Representatives Instructs FDA to Regulate CBD
Legislation passed the House of Representatives on June 25 that would appropriate $100,000 for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to perform a Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) and set a safe level of CBD for consumers to use each day. The process would follow the same precedent as red yeast rice, which allows a natural product to ...
Drinking Matcha Tea Can Reduce Anxiety
Many different countries have a tea culture, and Japanese matcha tea is growing in popularity around the world. In Japan, matcha has a long history of being used for various medicinal purposes. It has been suspected to have various beneficial effects to health, but relatively little scientific evidence supported that claim. Now, a group of ...
Low Vitamin D at Birth Raises Risk of Higher Blood Pressure in Kids
Vitamin D deficiency from birth to early childhood was associated with an increased risk of elevated blood pressure in later childhood and adolescence, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. Researchers followed 775 children from birth to age 18 at the Boston Medical Center. Most lived in a low-income, urban area ...
Long Work Hours Associated With Increased Risk of Stroke
People who worked long hours had a higher risk of stroke, especially if they worked those hours for 10 years or more, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke. Researchers reviewed data from CONSTANCES, a French population-based study group started in 2012, for information on age (18-69), sex, smoking and work hours ...
ND Mini Camp Offers a Full Immersion Experience Within the Field of Naturopathic Medicine
Bastyr University will host its second annual ND Mini Camp July 22-27th, 2018 at its Kenmore, WA campus and invites those considering a degree in naturopathic medicine to attend. Campers will spend five days immersed in the culture of Bastyr, participating in hands-on events such as Qi Gong, Hydrotherapy, Homeopathic First Aid, a tour of campus amenities and more. Led by distinguished professors from Bastyr’s Naturopathic Medicine ...
Biology of Leptin, The Hunger Hormone, Revealed
In a new study, Yale researchers offer insight into leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in appetite, overeating, and obesity. Their findings advance knowledge about leptin and weight gain, and also suggest a potential strategy for developing future weight-loss treatments, they said. The study, led by investigators at Yale and Harvard, was published ...
Exercise May Have Different Effects in the Morning and Evening
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed. In mice they demonstrate that exercise in the morning results in an increased metabolic response in skeletal muscle, while exercise later in the day increases energy expenditure for an extended ...
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