Expert Column
Amy Bader, ND 
Amy Bader, ND, practices naturopathic medicine in Portland, Oregon, and will soon begin practicing...read more
Articles In This Column
- How 'Bout Some Good Press for Cholesterol?
- The Trouble with Heart Disease
- Stomaching Stomach Acid: A Simple Solution
- Sit Down, Oil Up, and Heal Your Body: The Wonder of Castor Oil Packs
- Peripheral Neuropathy: Treating it the Natural Way
- The Skinny on Type 2 Diabetes: Part 1 of 2
- The Skinny on Type 2 Diabetes: Part 2 of 2
- What’s Bugging You? (The One Supplement You Can’t Do Without)
- Inflammation: Good, Bad or all Hype?
- How the 6 Principles of Naturopathy Transformed a Science Geek into a Doctor
Naturopathic Medicine
How 'Bout Some Good Press for Cholesterol?
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Surprising new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that children as young as eight should be started on cholesterol-lowering drugs. Not surprisingly, cholesterol has become one of the most popular topics of conversation in my office. Patients are worried about reaching that “magic number” on their lab test and are also concerned about the side effects of medications used to attain it. An abnormal cholesterol level is most often a symptom...Read entire article »
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The Trouble with Heart Disease
According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States for both men and women. This equates to more than 35% of all deaths. It is estimated that more than 80 million Americans have one or more types of cardiovascular disease. The bottom line: 920,000 people will die of a have a heart attack this year and 780,000 will have a stroke. Do I have...Read entire article »
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Stomaching Stomach Acid: A Simple Solution
I recently read an article that indicated the use of drugs that block stomach acid may be associated with cognitive impairment in older African-American adults. According to the study, the risk for showing signs of cognitive impairment is 2.5 times greater for patients using these medications1. Another study showed acid-blocking drugs to increase risk of pneumonia2. More than 16 million prescriptions of acid-blocking drugs were dispensed in 2005, and several of these medications are also available over the counter....Read entire article »
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Sit Down, Oil Up, and Heal Your Body: The Wonder of Castor Oil Packs
As most of my patients will tell you, I have a little saying at the end of my office visits: “If you don’t do anything else I told you today, do the castor oil pack.” Right now you are probably wondering what a castor oil pack is and what it does. If you are one of my patients, you are probably thinking, “I should probably be doing a castor oil pack right now while I’m sitting here surfing the...Read entire article »
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Peripheral Neuropathy: Treating it the Natural Way
I recently had the privilege of speaking to a group of people with peripheral neuropathy (PN) who gather monthly to learn about their ailment and support each other. When I walked in to the room where this meeting was held, I was struck by the wide range of folks suffering with the symptoms of this disease. You see, there are hundreds of different types of peripheral neuropathy affecting people from every walk of life. Although the incidence of peripheral...Read entire article »
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