NP Practitioner Corner
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 ...
Lessons From 45 Years: 8 Tips to Thrive as a Healer
I started medical school in 1972. But my time as a healer truly began in 1975, after I came down with postviral CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and fibromyalgia. This forced me to drop out of medical school and left me homeless, sleeping in parks. It was during this spiritual journey that I learned intimately about ...
Autophagy!
The key to longevity and more? It seems like some of my patients continue to look for that “magic bullet” when it comes to health and longevity. What if there was a magic bullet that could help your patients be healthier and live longer? It turns out the body already has a mechanism that can ...
For Safe & Effective Detox, You Need the Right Support
Detoxification is a fundamental strategy in integrative medicine. Yet in many cases, detox—in the clinical setting or as a self-directed approach—is done incompletely, incorrectly, or not at all. While large-scale studies continue to highlight the troubling influence of environmental and biological toxins in our most serious health conditions, from cancer to dementia and beyond, clinical ...
Addressing Men’s Health Concerns
Regardless of your age, gender or general health, it is important to take a proactive approach to health. Many men avoid the doctor until they become sick, injure themselves or are faced with a serious health problem. However, it is important for men to have regular visits with their doctor to promote good health and ...
Common Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Their Impact on Major Concerns
Good nutrition and exercise are common basics for advice when it comes to alleviating various concerns like fatigue, anxiety, heart disease and cancer, to name a few. However, our health status is also related to both where and how we live. Weight gain, and the inability to lose weight is an extremely prevalent topic as ...
Aging Without Disengaging— Brain Health for Life
Every one of us knows someone, or has at the very least heard of someone, who is well into their 80s, 90s, or even 100s who is as sharp as a tack. Their cognitive functioning has not significantly declined with age, while the majority of others has lost long- and short-term memory, processing, and certainly ...
Feeling Fantastic is Easy! Here’s How…
Although largely ignored by the news and medical media, the last few years may as well have written the obituary for the yearly medical checkup. These evaluations were geared to seeing if you have “IT” yet. IT being some scary and expensive way to evaluate and treat illness. The message that yearly physicals should RIP ...
You Teach, But Do You Lead?
So often, my patients will ask me, what do you eat? What do you do for exercise? What supplements do you take? How did you survive menopause? How do you manage stress? I feel like they want to know because they are looking for a real live example of what it looks like and what ...
New Clinical Trial: Modified Citrus Pectin Halts Prostate Cancer Progression
Study further demonstrates modified citrus pectin’s significant anti-cancer actions. A new double-blind clinical trial on modified citrus pectin (MCP) against biochemically relapsed prostate cancer is opening new doors in the treatment of this aggressive disease. Results published on the first set of subjects highlight the ability of MCP to halt prostate cancer progression and improve ...
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