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Holistic Health’s Female Focus
What are the top women’s health risks? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) the leading causes of death in females in the United States are heart disease, cancer and stroke.Another way of answering this question depends on their age group. Tori Hudson, ND, who serves on the scientific advisory board for ...
2012 Company Profiles
Curious about the companies offering dietary supplements and natural products for you to provide your patients? Want to know about their ingredient sourcing, quality assurance measures and formulation techniques? Looking for information on the services provided by diagnostic laboratories or the origins of proven branded ingredients? Then Natural Practitioner’s 2012 Company Profiles are here to ...
Encouraging Natural Bone Health
Osteoporosis and low bone mass are not mandatory conditions of aging.With that in mind, natural strategies should help raise expectations for good bone health.According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, osteoporosis is not part of normal aging although many people continue to believe this is true. A long term, national effort is needed to educate younger ...
Insightful Vision Care
Poets say, “The night has a thousand eyes.”Meanwhile, human beings are blessed with just two, and they’d better take care of them if they want to continue reading Kindles and seeing sunsets into their eighth and ninth decades.On the cutting edge of technology, this may call for sophisticated surgical procedures like vitrectomy to repair damage ...
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 ...
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