NP 2023
“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. ...
Dr. Jeff Anshel, Optometrist
Dr. Jeffrey Anshel is a 1975 graduate from the Illinois College of Optometry. He has written numerous articles and 10 books regarding nutritional influences on vision and computer vision concerns. Dr. Anshel is the principal of Corporate Vision Consulting, where he addresses nutrition and eye health, as well as digital eyestrain. He lectures internationally to ...
Keys to Brain Power
Helping patients/clients sustain cognitive abilities. It’s funny in a way—when middle-aged adults say, “I keep forgetting where I put my phone, am I getting Alzheimer’s?” They are mostly kidding, but there is an underlying rivulet of anxiety about potentially going into mental decline. Unlike clients of only about five years ago, the current crop of ...
Inositol-enhanced Arginine Silicate for Cognitive Performance and Energy in eSports Athletes
Just in case you’re thinking that supplements for eSports (i.e., electronic sports; aka gamers) is a niche market, consider that approximately 74 percent of households in the U.S. have at least one family member who plays video games and about 3 billion people worldwide are gamers.1 Not only that, but eSports has now developed into ...
Could Naturopathic Medicine Be the Future of Integrative Medicine?
An article in the British Journal of Medicine (BMJ) from July 2022 recently caught my attention. Titled the “International prevalence of consultation with a naturopathic practitioner: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” the meta-analysis calculated the use of naturopathic medicine globally, based on published studies, using the term naturopathy for the search. The BMJ study looked ...
Sierra Hollister, Yoga Instructor, Author
Sierra Hollister, E-RYT500, is a beloved yoga teacher throughout the Appalachian Mountains, and widely considered to be a “teacher’s teacher.” Hollister is featured on the Yoga International platform, has appeared in Yoga Journal, is a lead teacher in Asheville, NC for both 200 and 300 hour YTT certifications and teaches at Warren Wilson College. She ...
The Science & Regulatory Status of N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)
From a regulatory perspective, it has been a bumpy couple of years for N-acetylcysteine (NAC)—although the science of this well-researched amino acid was never in question. In this article, I’m going to review the science of NAC, as well as its erstwhile and current regulatory status. Let’s start with the science. The Science of NAC ...
Celebrating the Institute for Natural Medicine’s 30th Birthday!
Over the past few decades, the internet has provided people with exponential amounts of easy to access health information. This combined with the pandemic has increased the public’s desire to understand themselves better, and to be healthier. As a result, naturopathic medicine has earned a bigger spotlight. At the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM), we ...
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