Do You Have Adrenal Fatigue Related Weight-Gain?

Are Your Adrenal Glands Making You Fat? Fatigue and resistant-weight loss are two of the most common reasons people seek medical treatment from a naturopathic doctor. In fact, exhaustion, coupled with unexplained weight gain, is so common; I consider it the most common condition I treat. But is exhaustion and weight gain the same thing as adrenal fatigue? And just because you are feeling exhausted, and cannot lose weight, does that mean you have an adrenal disorder? The Causes of Exhaustion There is a multitude of reasons why people become exhausted, and a thorough intake is necessary…

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How to Treat Migraine Headaches with Naturopathic Medicine

Healing Migraine Headaches with Naturopathic Medicine Migraine headaches are a relatively common medical condition; that affects millions of Americans. Women are at a slightly higher risk than men of suffering from migraines. What Are Migraine Headaches? Migraine headaches are a recurrent throbbing headache that usually affects one side of the head only and may be accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision - known as an "accompanying aura". People who suffer from migraines may need to lie down in a quiet dark room for several hours in order to experience relief.  Chronic debilitating migraines may result in an…

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Treating Depression and Anxiety With Natural Medicine

How to Treat Depression And Anxiety With Natural Medicine I am often asked if I treat anxiety and depression using natural medicine, and the good news is, that there are a number of ways that depression can be treated naturally that are quite effective. Determining the right course of treatment is vital to helping people experience improved mood. This is one of the reasons that I do a thorough intake during a patients initial visit, and will often order a number of labs. Some common physiological causes of depression, that can overlooked by many clinicians, include thyroid…

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5 Simple Tips to Lose Weight and Stay Healthy

Losing Weight Might Not Be Easy But it is No Mystery One of the main reasons people come to see me in my offices is a desire to lose weight.  The challenges of losing weight as we age can become quite stressful.  And many people fall into the trap of looking for a quick fix, or a simple fad diet, in order to shed the weight.  The truth is, no such fad diet exist.  And weight-loss should be attained slowly and responsibly, using sound advice and good nutrition. If you would like to find out more about…

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The Difference Between Treating a Disease Versus Curing it

The Difference Between Treating Versus Curing a Disease Recently, while on my way to the office, I had a very interesting conversation with an UBER driver. He wanted to know what I felt was the main difference between prescribing drugs to treat disease and the use of naturopathic medicine. And I found myself in an interesting conversation that involved clarifying the difference between truly being cured ,verses simply being palliated.  To palliate denotes a state whereby your disease symptoms may be temporarily abated due to  medical intervention.  But, once the treatment wears off, the disease returns. As…

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Weston A. Price and the American Eugenics Movement

An Introduction The blending of the races has been blamed for much of the distortion and defects in body form in our modern generation. It will be seen that these face changes occur in all the pure-blood races studied in even the first generation, after the nutrition of the parents has been changed. [1] -Weston A. Price Nutritional and Physical Degeneration (1939) This paper examines the work of Weston A. Price through the prism of Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology examines attitudes and beliefs about health that contribute to a given society or group of individuals' practice of…

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