Natural Practitioner Magazine
Vitamin K1 & K2 as MK-7 and MK-4: Differences and Applications
Vitamin K, particularly vitamin K2, represents a significant segment of the vitamin market. In fact, the global vitamin K2 market size was estimated at $421.1 million in 2023 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.8 percent from 2024 to 2030.1 Certainly, vitamin K2 as menaquinone-7 (MK-7) has been recognized for its role ...
A Simple Diabetes Protocol
What if you could simply and naturally lower most people’s diabetes HgBA1C test results by 2-3 percent? For example, from 8.7 percent (poorly controlled diabetes) to under 6.5 percent (not diabetic). You can, and this article will show you how. Some Historical Background Medical anthropologists tell us that adult diabetes used to be quite rare. ...
That’s So Meta (bolic)!
People are finally seeking to tackle their metabolic health, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Ballooning waistlines tend to be the factor that opens people’s eyes that there may be something more insidious going on inside them—chiefly, metabolic dysfunction. And unfortunately, those with metabolic dysfunction, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes comprise a very ...
2024 Practitioner’s Choice Awards
Natural Practitioner (NP) magazine polled its practitioner readers on their most recommended products to compile its 2024 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 2024 Practitioner’s Choice Awards represent a random sampling of practitioners across the country polled ...
Natural Approaches to Addressing Pain and Inflammation
What natural health experts and manufacturers are looking for now in the area of pain and inflammation. Pain statistics in the U.S. are alarming. From 2019 to 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tracked chronic pain among adults. The study which compiled those results found that approximately 20.9 percent of adults in ...
The Data Speaks: Naturopathic Doctors Are Thriving Professionally
Licensed naturopathic doctors (NDs) and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) both employ holistic, evidence-based methodologies to assess and improve health, albeit in different contexts. NDs apply these principles to individual patient care, while the AANP uses them to evaluate the overall health of the naturopathic profession. Just as NDs gather comprehensive data through ...
Kim Shapira, MS, RD
Kim Shapira, MS, RD is a celebrity dietitian, nutritional therapist and author, with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Tulane University and a Master’s degree in Human Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition from Boston University. Shapira has spent more than 25 years helping people lose weight and keep it off (with a giant emphasis on ...
The Prebiotic Benefits of Acacia Gum & Baobab Fibers
If you’ve been part of the dietary supplement industry for the past few years, you will certainly have seen the increased popularity of the biotics market (pre-, pro- and postbiotics). In particular, prebiotics have seen significant growth, with a global valuation of $6.67 billion in 2023, and an expected compound annual growth rate of 6.3 ...
Complementary and Integrative Health Professions Hold the Key to Whole Person Health
In today’s rapidly evolving health care landscape, there is a growing recognition of the need to shift from a disease-centric model to one that promotes whole-person health. Marginalized professions within the complementary and integrative health (CIH) space, such as acupuncture, chiropractic care, naturopathic medicine and herbal medicine, hold significant promise in achieving this transition. Integrating ...
How Stress Eating Can Negatively Impact Health
Presently, an estimated 46 percent of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health issue at some point in their lifetime.1 With the significant increase in mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, in the past decade, we have also seen an increase in stress eating. Stress eating is also referred to ...
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