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Seasonally Well
After a long cold winter, springtime is most welcome—except for those who endure allergy symptoms. “So, what brings you to us today?” you ask. “Um, I really don’t know … but I’m sneezing a lot and my throat is scratchy … and my head is stuffy…” stammers your client/patient. The calendar may help pinpoint what’s ...
Trusting Your Gut: Digestion and the Microbiome
What’s most important to know now? Gas, heartburn and constipation are just a few of the most common digestive problems Americans suffer from today. Historically, understanding digestive issues like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), leaky gut and Crohn’s disease was paltry. Even the understanding of what caused common issues such as bloating was limited. Today, however, ...
Maintaining a Healthy Body Composition
Overall weight loss may not always be the best solution for patients trying to get healthier; often, goals should encompass whole body composition, which includes gaining lean muscle mass while losing fat. As the new year begins, many people endeavor to begin their journeys to a healthier weight. New Year resolutions are made, diets are ...
Don’t Wait for Heartbreak: Preventing or Reversing Cardiovascular Disease
How can individuals best protect their hearts now? Wearing your heart on your sleeve. Hard-hearted. A heavy heart. In English, we have a lot of terms to describe the state of our emotional hearts. More importantly, though, is to consider the health of our physical hearts. Then words like palpitations, myocardium and pulmonary valve take ...
Perchance to Dream
Americans are being robbed of quality sleep (and therefore, broken dreams)—here’s how you can help. “Idon’t sleep well anymore,” is perhaps one of the most common admissions heard today. And, when one person comments about his/her lousy sleep, it sparks a rather convivial conversation wherein just about everyone agrees that quality sleep is now woefully ...
How Sweet It Is: Helping Patients Manage Blood Sugar
High blood sugar is years in the making, but you can help your patients take control with dietary supplements and lifestyle changes. Before type 2 diabetes sets in, you can help your patients potentially stave it off. But it appears that there may be several baked-in misunderstandings about the cause of erratic blood sugar and ...
2022 Practitioner’s Choice Awards
Natural Practitioner (NP) magazine polled its practitioner readers on their most recommended products to compile its 2022 Practitioner’s Choice Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s winners than the people who recommend them to their patients? The 2022 Practitioner’s Choice Awards represent a random sampling of practitioners across the country polled ...
Pre-, Pro- and Postbiotics: The Benefits on Health
Beyond digestive health, what do natural practitioners recommend biotics for? Though probiotics have been around since ancient times, they only began to gain popularity approximately 150 years ago. And since the 1990s, these “good bacteria” have garnered increased interest. While much is known about the benefits of pre-, pro- and postbiotics when it comes to ...
Putting Health to the Test
As patients become more health conscious, the demand for personalized results from testing labs continues to increase. Testing labs can be effective resources for practitioners who need answers about their patients’ medical conditions. These labs have the tools needed to perform diagnostic tests with quick results so that practitioners can interpret them and suggest the ...
Stress and Relaxation: Intersections and Information
What are natural health practitioners and manufacturers seeing now related to stress and relaxation in the U.S.? Stress. The word means many different things to different people. Among its many definitions, stress is defined in Merriam-Webster as, “to cause or experience physical or emotional tension.” That clearly sums up how many around the world are ...
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