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A Place For Good Health
Large and small, new and established, these wellness centers provide sanctuaries for those seeking a range of health goals.Whether the guest or patient stays an hour, a day or weeks, ultimately wellness centers are committed to creating sustainable wellness. Treatment strategies can vary wildly, but these centers take an integrative approach even utilizing what are ...
Moving Toward A Stress-Free Life
Lifestyle changes and nutrient replenishment can help patients live a healthier, happier life. Stress is an everyday part our lives. Whether it be emotional, mental or physical, stress takes a toll on our bodies and can prevent us from completing even the most mundane daily tasks as well as enjoying our leisure time with family ...
Human Clinical Support
This special section of Natural Practitioner comes in response to the desire for a greater understanding of the research and history behind the products available to practitioners and their patients, and manufacturers wanting to offer the science that backs the effectiveness of their products.We have featured a similar section annually in Natural Practitioner’s sister publication, ...
Passing The Test
Enhanced diagnostic tools are allowing practitioners to properly and precisely diagnose individual treatment protocols for their patients.Life is, without a doubt, absolutely miraculous in all its forms. The six-billion-plus individual Homo sapiens currently alive are physiologically, mentally and emotionally individualized— and when health issues arise, it makes sense that the tools available for practitioners allow ...
Seeking Solutions To A Weighty Problem
Poor diets, lack of physical activity and high stress levels contribute to growing obesity rate.What do more than 162 million American adults have in common? They all weigh too much. This is no idle assertion; it’s backed up by copious research showing not only the extent of the problem, but also its consequences in terms ...
Integrating Cancer Care
Integrating Cancer CareIntegrative medicine is gaining ground to enhance cancer treatment as well as aid in cancer prevention. Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery are combined with integrative oncology services to aggressively treat all types of cancer.Cheryl Myers, RN, is chief of scientific affairs and education for Wisconsin-based EuroPharma, Inc., makers of ...
Healthy Hormone Support
The complexity of proper hormone balance for women—and men—can be aided by carefully guided lifestyle choices as well as supplements.Hormone imbalances can occur in men and women of almost any age. A variety of factors can be related to these imbalances, including high insulin levels from diets high in refined foods and sugar, exposure to ...
An Encompassing Approach To Neuroinflammation
With a potential link between increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and neuroinflammatory conditions, practitioners provide an integrative health view.Research has shown that inflammation is at least a part of the root cause of chronic diseases, which have become a 21st century epidemic. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , ...
Restoring Balance, Offering Relief
Concern over pharmaceuticals has set an increased population seeking natural alternatives for their digestive health issues.Walter J. Crinnion, ND, recalled that when he started in practice in 1982, many health problems, including chronic gastrointestinal (GI) issues, were only seen in 50- and-older patients. Today, he says it is rare in his practice not to see ...
The Future Of Medicine
A roundtable discussion of practitioners, educators and natural product providers on how complementary health care models are changing Western medicine.NP: What are the main challenges facing the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) industry?Guiltinan: Regulation and oversight by states is a major issue for naturopathic medicine and some other CAM professions. The naturopathic medical profession is ...
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