59Why Can’t I Lose Weight (or keep it off)? A Naturopathic/Vitalistic Guide
Why Can’t I Lose Weight (or keep it off)? A Naturopathic/Vitalistic Guide
Weight, and efforts to lose weight, have become an epidemic over the past many decades, as the once simple advice of “diet and exercise” or “try this diet or cleanse for a few weeks” have failed to wholly stop this trend. Even if their routine now seems more than adequate, weight and, commonly together, its ...
Jan E. Patterson, MD, MS
Jan E. Patterson, MD is an integrative medicine and infectious diseases physician who has practiced and taught medicine for more than 30 years. She believes in using all the tools in the toolbox for better health and works to integrate holistic therapies with conventional ones. She is a professor of medicine at UT Health San ...
“What’s in That?”
Tips, techniques and products to help your patients/clients navigate the tricky world of food allergies and intolerances. Approximately 20 million people were living in the U.S. with food allergies as of 2021, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). This number has risen steadily in children over the past 20 years. While ...
Seeing is Believing
As vision health issues increase, companies have been innovating effective products for the practitioner market. Out of the five senses, sight is perhaps the most important for human beings—and the majority of the population would likely agree. According to a study by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information, published in ...
Who Has Time for Pain?
People are stressed but want to enjoy full-plate lifestyles—they simply don’t have time to be timed-out by pain. Here’s how to help. The old joke about the guy who says to his doctor, “Hey Doc, it hurts when I do this,” to which the doctor advises, “Don’t do that” tends to tickle the funny bone. ...
Probiotics May Be Beneficial For Certain Intestinal Diseases, Study Says
Probiotics can help maintain a healthy gut microbiome or restore populations of “good bacteria” after a heavy course of antibiotics. But now, they could also be used as an effective treatment strategy for certain intestinal diseases, such as Crohn’s disease. Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a microgel delivery system for probiotics that keeps “good” ...
EFAs Linked to Slower Decline in ALS
People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who eat more foods high in certain omega-3 fatty acids like flaxseed oil, walnuts, canola oil and pumpkin seeds may have a slower physical decline from the disease and may have a slightly extended survival. The study, which looked at the survival of people with ALS over the course ...
Having a Pet Is Associated With Fewer Food Allergies in Young Children, Study Says
In an analysis of more than 65,000 infants from Japan, children exposed to pet cats or indoor dogs during fetal development or early infancy tended to have fewer food allergies compared to other children, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Hisao Okabe from the Fukushima Regional Center for the Japan Environment and Children’s ...
Altered Gut Bacteria May Be Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease
People in the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s disease—after brain changes have begun but before cognitive symptoms become apparent—harbor an assortment of bacteria in their intestines that differs from the gut bacteria of healthy people, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. The findings, published in Science Translational ...
Fatty Fish Consumption Increases Cell Membrane Fluidity, Study Says
Eating fatty fish decreased the lipophilic index in people with impaired glucose metabolism or coronary heart disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The lipophilic index is considered a marker of cell membrane fluidity, and a low lipophilic index indicates better membrane fluidity. In a study published in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, a low ...
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