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Blood Sugar & Metabolic Health: What’s Next?
Lifestyle changes and natural supplements may help improve blood sugar and metabolic health. When thinking of preventing heart disease, many people aren’t automatically considering metabolic health. In fact, most people aren’t aware of what metabolic syndrome even is. This is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cluster ...
Alona Pulde, MD, WeHeal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Touted as a doctor of the future, Dr. Alona Pulde combines conventional Western medicine, Chinese medicine, lifestyle medicine, nonviolent communication, polyvagal theory and trauma-informed, somatic principles and pain reprocessing to create her groundbreaking paradigm. She starred in the documentary Forks Over Knives and co-authored six books, including the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives ...
Paradigm Shift in Medicine
In July 2023, EXPLORE journal published an online version of an article I co-authored with David Katz, MD, MPH, entitled “Paradigm Shift in Medicine: Integrating Naturopathic Care in the Treatment of Chronic Disease. Want to follow best practices in chronic disease treatment? Look to naturopathic physicians.”1 In the article, we highlight the potential of naturopathic ...
Neuropathy No-More!
As a naturopathic doctor, I have the privilege and enjoyment of being able to run functional medicine tests, alongside reference range labs to get the clearest picture of a patient’s clinical condition. It has been rather amazing to me how many people in our modern day are showing up deficient in B vitamins. Especially people ...
Glutathione for Liver Health and Beautiful Skin
Although often thought of as an amino acid, the antioxidant glutathione (GSH) is actually a tripeptide1,2 primarily synthesized in the liver and composed of the amino acids cysteine, glutamic acid and glycine.3,4 Arguably, GSH is the most important tripeptide in the body, playing critical roles in the synthesis and repair of DNA and protein, as ...
Baby, It’s Cold OUCH-Side
Cold weather kicks up the joint pain and often muscle discomfort. Be ready! Nobody wants their mobility impaired. There’s way too much to do, especially around the holiday season. So much merriment to be had! However, pain, discomfort, inflammation and soreness can slow people down—and those who enjoy being active and fit will experience less-than-sufficient ...
Growing Older Gracefully
How the healthy aging marketplace is faring post-pandemic and what new trends are emerging. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2030, one in six people will be over age 60. This means that the population for this demographic will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. And by 2050, said WHO, ...
Lab Testing Enters a New Era
With the convergence of the mapping of the human genome and pandemic-fueled at-home testing, direct-to-patient lab tests have exploded in popularity. The at-home diagnostics market in the U.S. is expected to be valued at $8.5 billion by 2030, expanding by 4.5 percent annually.1 Used to assess health status, genetic predispositions, previously undiagnosed medical issues and ...
Mindy Pelz, DC
Mindy Pelz, DC is a leading functional health authority educating women on hormonal health for more than two decades. She is a pioneer in the fasting movement, teaching the principles of healthy and safe fasting, diet variation, and detoxing to help the body heal itself. Her YouTube channel (which just celebrated 24 million lifetime views) ...
Strengthening Immune Health
Which products and lifestyle changes may best support a healthy immune system? It starts as a tickle in the throat. Then a few sneezes. Before long, a full-blown cold, flu or another virus has incapacitated an otherwise healthy individual. What gives? Immune health is key to overall health and affects many other systems in the ...
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