NP Practitioner Corner
Addressing Patient Treatment Adherence: Barriers and Top Solutions
As with many practitioners who practice a comprehensive system of medicine that includes dietary modification, lifestyle interventions and dose-dependent clinical nutrition and botanical medicine, treatment adherence is a common concern for me that can limit the effective management and treatment of chronic conditions, leading to poor outcomes and increased health care costs for my patients. ...
Meditation: Just What the Doctor Ordered (For Themself and Their Patients)
Meditation is one of those tried and true therapeutic tools that we all have in the back of our heads and are perhaps routinely recommending to patients in your office. In this article, I’ll be examining the importance of your own self care through meditation as a health care provider. We’ll also look at the ...
The Trifecta for Health
In a world where there are so many influences upon our health, and so many diets to perfect our health, and so many supplements to promise us health, many of our patients and clients really just want to know, “Where should I invest the most time, money or effort?” I understand. The amount of information ...
What Constitutes Good Sleep—How to Have a Restful Night
A good night’s sleep can not only help someone feel well-rested and refreshed upon waking up, but is important for both healing and potentially preventing a plethora of health concerns. Since the invention of the lightbulb, generally speaking, we have been able to metaphorically burn the midnight oil such as in working longer hours. This ...
COVID-19 Update: Thriving and Treating Persistent Symptoms
Unfortunately, given the politicization of the virus on both sides, COVID-19 misinformation is rampant. I find myself recommending that people ignore much of what is in the media, and sadly even the medical establishment experts. Instead, my focus is simply on what the research shows, along with a dollop of common sense. 1. How Contagious ...
Post COVID-19 Infection Clinical Considerations
Disclaimer: This article is far from a definitive guide to post COVID-19 patient care. The situation associated with those who have recovered from COVID-19 is dynamic and we are learning more by the day about its mechanisms of action, the broader impact on physiology and the long-term effects to those who survive infection. This commentary ...
The Relevance of Cancer Stem Cell Research and Botanicals for Integrative Practice
There has been a long battle against cancer in conventional practice. The American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of cancer, was founded in 1913. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced that that was the year to make dramatic advancements against cancer. And in 2013, Time magazine announced triumphantly that cancer ...
Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
We hear a lot about the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. Not only are foods rich in them purported, but we see a whole line in the supplement industry devoted to helping people get more of them in their diet. Let’s take a deeper look at these fatty acids, so that we can better ...
Blocking the Cytokine Storm & Balancing Immune Responses—Strategies for COVID-19
As more data is gathered on COVID-19 and its pathogenesis within the body, it’s becoming clear that inflammatory damage to the cardio-respiratory system, as well as other vital organs, presents life-threatening complication in a wide range of patients. And it’s all driven by an overreactive immune response leading to the deadly cytokine storm. As practitioners, ...
Ovaries and Intestines Have Taste Receptors?
Truth can be stranger than fiction. This is one of those moments. Everyone knows that we have taste “buds” in our mouths. These are actual taste receptor proteins, and though discovered in the early 2000s, we now also know that they exist outside of the oral cavity. Here is where it gets weird. We have ...
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