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Education & Support for Natural Practitioners
Natural Practitioner highlights some of the institutions and associations providing education and support for practitioners and patients for the betterment of integrative health. National University of Natural Medicine Portland, OR (503) 552-1555 www.nunm.edu In 2016, National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) changed its status from a college to a university when it added the School of ...
Go Forth and Multiply!
Reproductive issues may become a prominent stressor in the lives of couples who want to start families. Practitioners can help provide the healthy balance to succeed. Trying to populate your own country by giving birth to 19 children (The Duggars) or using artificial means to have eight babies in one birth (Nadya Suleman) may be ...
Aging Gracefully
Aging in a healthy manner is no simple feat, but practitioners can help their patients remain healthy as they grow older. One has heard the phrase being used time and time again: “that person sure is aging so well!” At times, it is directed towards figures in the entertainment industry—actresses and actors—who have appeared to ...
Mission Possible: Conquering Men’s Health
The path to having male patients achieve optimum health may seem like a daunting task, but with the proper set of solutions, it can be done. Men’s health encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, but one detail is for certain: its importance cannot go unnoticed. According to a 2015 survey conducted by the Centers for ...
Bespoke ‘Scrips
Compounding pharmacies are growing as a way to treat patients more individually. Here’s what you should know to work more effectively with them. Although it may seem “new” and “cutting-edge,” almost all prescriptions were compounded until mass drug manufacturing became the norm in the mid-20th century. The role of a pharmacist used to be one ...
Sustainable Weight-loss Solutions
A multi-faceted approach can help patients maintain quality weight loss. According to a 2015 data brief published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, the prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States between 2011 and 2014 was 36.5 percent. “Diabetes/obesity, otherwise known as ‘diabesity’ is the ...
The Balancing Act
Today’s women—from late teens through 70s—are active, engaged, involved and determined to not be temporarily derailed by age-related female issues. Here’s how to help them achieve and maintain balance. You probably do see more women than men in your practice. Women tend to immediately try to get to the root cause of any issue they ...
Coping With Pain
Dealing with pain is never easy, but learning new ways to help patients combat it can make it treatable. Pain, p-a-i-n. What appears to be such a simple word in the English language is far from it, as it can impact men, women and children of all ages. The difference lies in how individuals choose ...
Beyond Skin Deep
There are a number of factors that can cause skin conditions. Here is how you can help your patients’ skin issues more naturally. Skin is the body’s largest organ and is also its first line of defense in fighting infection. And while it acts as the body’s protector, the skin can also be the first ...
Smart Move!
Nutritional support for the brain. The keys really are where you placed them; and your cell phone really is where you saw it last. And although you may stop and be stumped as to why you walked into your kitchen, as you walk back, befuddled, into your home office, you realize it was because you ...
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