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Natural Choices For Men’s Health
While the life-expectancy gap between men and women has decreased, it’s no secret that men still need to pay more attention to their bodies. According to MedlinePlus, several things work against men: They tend to smoke and drink more than women; they don’t seek medical help as often as women; and some men define themselves ...
Methods For Managing Pain
Pain is often the primary motivator for people to visit a health care practitioner. How it is treated can vary as much as the reasons for its cause.Whether its headache, an overuse or weekend warrior injury, most people go to the doctor because of pain. In addition, “one in four adults suffer with inadequately treated ...
A Natural Approach To Regaining Energy And Endurance
With many Americans fighting fatigue on a daily basis, they are now looking to their health care practitioners for advice on how to reclaim their energy.Managing busy family lives can take a lot out of a person.Couple that with the fact that many Americans do not exercise enough, have a restful sleep or eat the ...
Tips For Selecting A Compounding Pharmacy
How the triad of patient/prescriber/pharmacy results in the preparation of patient-specific medications.Because they recognize that each patient is unique, integrative practitioners often reject mass-produced drugs in favor of specially compounded, fully personalized medications. By providing these esoteric concoctions, compounding pharmacies fulfill an essential role in the health care system.Steve Bernardi, owner and pharmacist at Massachusetts-based ...
Natural Approaches To Children
Carolyn Dean, MD, ND wrote in Kids’ Health: A Doctor’s Guide for Parents (a supplement for Better Nutrition magazine): “Children across America are developing chronic illnesses once reserved solely for adults. This trend has reached epidemic proportions.What we do know is that there is an unprecedented rise in asthma, allergies and immune reactions in children ...
The Science Of Supplements
A Guide to Research-Backed Nutrients and ProductsThis special section of Natural Practitioner comes in response to the desire for a greater understanding of the research and history behind the products available to practitioners and their patients, and manufacturers wanting to offer the science that backs the effectiveness of their products.We have featured a similar section ...
An Alternative Approach To Sexual Function
Botanicals offer natural practitioners solutions for men’s and women’s sexual function issues.Americans have witnessed a former politician in a television commercial for an erectile dysfunction drug, which made the subject a bit less taboo.Unfortunately, many men and women still feel that they are alone when it comes to problems with sexual function and would rather ...
A Natural Approach To Healthy Blood Sugar
An all-around health strategy, including exercise, diet, maintaining a proper weight and supplementation, will get patients on the right track— and keep them there.An unhealthy level of blood sugar, or blood glucose, is the opening act to two fatal headliners: diabetes and metabolic syndrome.Statistics suggest that Americans aren’t monitoring blood sugar levels with much zeal. ...
An Immunity Improvement
Alternative approaches are becoming more popular for patients as they look to strengthen their first line of defense—the immune system.Maintaining a strong immune system is at the base of preventative health care. Immune system health is a fickle thing; not only are essential nutrients critical for the production and maintenance of key germ-fighting cells in ...
Lifestyle’s Link To Brain Health
The correlation between unhealthy lifestyles and Alzheimer’s and dementia, and suggests promise for supplements that increase brain function.According to 2011 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, a report from the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5.4 million Americans are known to be living with the disease.What’s worse, the prevalence of decreased brain health and memory decline among ...
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