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Fish Oil Diet Benefits May Be Mediated by Gut Microbes
Diets rich in fish oil versus diets rich in lard (e.g., bacon) produce very different bacteria in the guts of mice, reports a study published August 27 in Cell Metabolism. The researchers transferred these microbes into other mice to see how they affected health. The results suggest that gut bacteria share some of the responsibility ...
Consuming Adequate Choline is Critical During Pregnancy
Choline is an essential nutrient, critical to overall health. It is especially important during pregnancy. Choline plays a vital role in development of the brain in the fetus and in infants. Insufficient choline in the fetal brain adversely affects the development of the hippocampus and cortex—areas of the brain that regulate higher thinking and memory, ...
Oregon Health Authority Certifies NCNM Clinic
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) now recognizes the NCNM Clinic at the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) as a Tier 3 Patient-Centered Primary Care Home—the highest level of health care certification granted by the OHA. The state of Oregon established the Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) model as part of the state’s health system ...
Cleveland Clinic Receives $1 Million Gift to Support Center for Functional Medicine
Cleveland Clinic has received a four-year, $1 million gift from Pure Encapsulations (Sudbury, MA) that will support its Center for Functional Medicine. The gift will be used for clinical research, education, curriculum development, community programs and policy change initiatives. “A growing number of patients, especially those with chronic conditions, are finding relief with functional medicine, ...
NCNM Nabs Awards at AANP Conference
The National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM, Portland, OR) President David J. Schleich, PhD, and the college’s Global Health Program Co-chair Tabatha Parker, ND, were both honored on August 8 by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the national professional organization of licensed naturopathic physicians, at its 30th annual conference held in Oakland, CA. ...
Natural Partners Opens New East Coast Distribution Center
For the past 20 years Natural Partners (Scottsdale, AZ) has been a trusted resource for integrative health care practitioners who were so busy caring for their patients, they had no time left in the day for the logistics of planning, ordering, and dispensing inventory to their patients. Today, the company is a leading distributor partner ...
Fairhaven Health Announces Partnership with Toni Weschler
Fairhaven Health (Bellingham, WA) has announced its new partnership with Toni Weschler, nationally renowned women’s health educator and speaker, and author of the bestselling book Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Through this partnership, Fairhaven Health and Weschler are combining forces to empower women around the world with the information and tools they need to achieve ...
Nestlé Health Science Launches “Enact: Quality Improvement Through Nutrition” Program for Health Care Professionals
Nestlé Health Science (Florham Park, NJ) recently announced the launch of ENact, a web-based, integrated enteral nutrition program aimed at improving patient outcomes through the adoption of nutrition-focused quality improvement (QI) initiatives in the hospital setting. The evidence is clear: clinical nutrition therapy improves patient outcomes, making it a necessary and invaluable part of health ...
Dr. Isaac Eliaz Joins Natural Practitioner Advisory Board
Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc has recently joined Natural Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Eliaz has been a recognized expert in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980s, with a specific focus on cancer, immune health, detoxification and mind-body medicine. He is a respected formulator, clinician, researcher, author and educator. As part of ...
Nutrition Researchers Develop the Healthy Beverage Index
Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new scoring method for assessing beverage intake, the Healthy Beverage Index (HBI). In a report published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics they describe how this tool can be used to more accurately evaluate dietary consumption of all types of fluids. They found that ...
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