NP 2023 07
Bringing Food as Medicine to Schools and Children
In February 2023, the Naturally Well team from the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) went back to school with a visit to the EJE Academies Charter School (EJEA) in El Cajon, CA. The East San Diego school prepares students from diverse populations for higher education and for community leadership. Kimberly Lord Stewart, director of Naturally ...
Collagen and Resveratrol: The Advantage for Skin Care
There are so many different nutraceuticals available to help promote healthy, attractive skin. But two of them that deserve special mention are collagen and resveratrol. Of course, there are few people who will be surprised to hear that collagen offers skin related benefits, but many of those same people may be interested to learn that ...
Why Can’t I Lose Weight (or keep it off)? A Naturopathic/Vitalistic Guide
Weight, and efforts to lose weight, have become an epidemic over the past many decades, as the once simple advice of “diet and exercise” or “try this diet or cleanse for a few weeks” have failed to wholly stop this trend. Even if their routine now seems more than adequate, weight and, commonly together, its ...
Jan E. Patterson, MD, MS
Jan E. Patterson, MD is an integrative medicine and infectious diseases physician who has practiced and taught medicine for more than 30 years. She believes in using all the tools in the toolbox for better health and works to integrate holistic therapies with conventional ones. She is a professor of medicine at UT Health San ...
“What’s in That?”
Tips, techniques and products to help your patients/clients navigate the tricky world of food allergies and intolerances. Approximately 20 million people were living in the U.S. with food allergies as of 2021, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). This number has risen steadily in children over the past 20 years. While ...
Seeing is Believing
As vision health issues increase, companies have been innovating effective products for the practitioner market. Out of the five senses, sight is perhaps the most important for human beings—and the majority of the population would likely agree. According to a study by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information, published in ...
Who Has Time for Pain?
People are stressed but want to enjoy full-plate lifestyles—they simply don’t have time to be timed-out by pain. Here’s how to help. The old joke about the guy who says to his doctor, “Hey Doc, it hurts when I do this,” to which the doctor advises, “Don’t do that” tends to tickle the funny bone. ...
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