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Update Your Free 2016 NP Sourcebook Listing
Make Sure Your Free Listing in the 2016 Natural Practitioner Sourcebook is Up-to-Date. Deadline is October 12, 2015 Visit NaturalPractitionerMag.com/FreeListing to update your listing today! Natural Practitioner’s annual Sourcebook is an exceptional way to get your company’s most current information to thousands of practitioners – holistic and complementary MDs, chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists, nutritionalists, homeopaths, herbalists and others! ...
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 ...
Addressing Hormonal Imbalances
Hormonal imbalances are not so easy to spot. Natural practitioners help reveal symptoms and successfully address them with supplementation. When most of your clients or patients think of overall health/wellness and a sense of vigor, they believe it’s due solely to a healthy immune system. And yes, of course, they are right. However, they should ...
Food Allergy, Intolerance or Sensitivity?
Identifying the specific type of adverse food reaction and its underlying causes are key to determining effective management and restorative strategies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that every year, millions of Americans experience allergic reactions to foods ranging from mild to severe life-threatening, anaphylactic shock. Frank King Jr., ND, DC, founder ...
Gracefully Aging
Growing old is inevitable, yet there are methods in assuaging the aging process through proper diet and health support. It’s projected by 2050 that Americans aged 65 and older will amount close to 89 million people, which is double the number of elderly adults in 2010. The reason: individuals are living longer into their 70s ...
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