“Coffee is an amazingly potent collection of biologically active compounds,” says Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. Naturopathic medicine uses plants with biologically active compounds as medicines. And medicines have particular uses for...
If you have been diagnosed with low thyroid function, or hypothyroidism, you and your doctor have a number of medications to choose from. As a Naturopathic Physician, my focus is to choose the medication that fits your needs, to individualize your prescription so that...
What is gluten and why would it affect me? You might have heard of the "Gluten-Free" movement and are wondering. Read on if you or a loved one has lost their get-up-and-go, or has any of these symptoms: DiarrheaBloatingAbdominal painEczemaHeadacheFoggy...
My doctor did a blood test and says my thyroid is fine. Why am I still sluggish, cold, constipated and depressed? Your blood test may have been measuring TSH only, and the picture is more complicated than that. Or the doctor may have done a more complete thyroid panel...
Are you: Always fatigued or exhausted? Irritable and impatient? Feeling too hot or too cold? Depressed, anxious, or panicky? Bothered by changes in your skin or hair? At the mercy of your moods? Inexplicably gaining or losing weight? Losing enthusiasm for life?...
First, a fable . . . The human body responds to medical treatment much like the traveler in Aesop’s fable “The North Wind and the Sun.” The Wind challenged the Sun to remove the jacket of the traveler walking along the road beneath them. As the Sun hid behind a cloud,...
