Dr. Ashley Russell, ND Migraines are an invisible disease that costs the United States $36 billion a year due to healthcare and lost productivity.1 In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), migraines are the “sixth highest cause worldwide of years lost due to disability”.2 With its complicated and still unclear cause(s), sometimes pharmaceuticals […]
Dr. Kristina Fallico, ND To many, castor oil is simply a thick and messy liquid that is either used as a laxative or remembered as an emetic that parents gave to their children when they were sick. However, the herb also has many useful functions when used topically and it is a remedy commonly prescribed
Dr. Ashley Russell, ND Now that we know what migraines are, it would be helpful to know what causes them, right? Though this condition has been around for millennia, we unfortunately still don’t know the cause of migraines. Doctors still practice what scientists believed to be true for years; migraines are simply due to an
Dr. Teri Jaklin BA, ND, IFMCP @WaterdownClinic Throughout life, my greatest lessons have come from personal observation. Medically speaking, mostly through the health care experiences of others. Early this fall, however, I was the star of my own medical tutorial: Major surgery with power tools, a total knee replacement. Just the thought of it still
Dr. Kimberly M. Sanders, ND @_drkimsanders As an autoimmune arthritis specialist, I come across patients undergoing joint replacements on a weekly basis. Naturopathic adjunct therapies can be used to reduce complications and poor outcomes after this type of surgery. Many of these same complementary approaches can be tried early in the arthritic process to attempt
Dr. Teri Jaklin, BA,ND, IFMCP @WaterdownClinic I was raised in Southern Ontario, one of the international hotbeds of MS prevalence, others who share this geographic distinction include the rest of Canada (with the exception of Newfoundland), the US, and most of Europe. These countries have a few things in common: higher latitudes, lower exposure to
Dr. Kimberly Sanders, ND @_drkimsanders Rheumatoid arthritis is defined as inflammation of the joints caused by an autoimmune reaction. This means that the immune system is attacking itself, which causes pain, swelling, and deformity of the fingers, wrists, toes, and other joints. The inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis can also impact the heart and cause heart
Millie Lytle, ND, MPH, CNS In the first part of The New Fibromyalgia, we looked at the history of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). We highlighted how the diagnostic criteria associated with FMS has changed over the years from requiring specific areas of tenderness or pain to diffuse pain as well the many comorbid symptoms and diagnoses,
Dr. Millie Lytle, ND, MPH, CNS Many people book an appointment with a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) as a last resort. Once they have run through the gamut of medical care and experimental treatments and still have not found adequate help, they show up at the Naturopath’s door. Therefore, NDs often are exposed to subclinical and
BOULDER, Colo. – The brain scans of people suffering from fibromyalgia are showing they processes non-painful stimuli differently than people who do not suffer from the disease. The study, lead by Marina López-Solà, PhD, from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said fibromyalgia patients process sound and touch with
