Op-Ed by Neenah Payne I LOVED Christmas growing up and looked forward to it all year! The season began when my father and I bought a Christmas tree which my brothers and I decorated. My mother would take me to the department store to see…
By Sayer Ji Natural medicine doesn’t just involve “nutraceuticals,” but extends to modalities like yoga and acupuncture that an increasing body of peer-reviewed research shows can be superior to drugs. Natural medicine is an amazing field, full of inspiring stories and an ever-accumulating body of…
In today’s society, we are beginning to gain a better understanding of holistic approaches to health. For years, medicinal training has focused on procedures and medicines that can be used to improve health. Although these practices are important, they are better when they are paired…
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath There are eleven states in the nation that have a health freedom law on the books. These bipartisan laws, found in both blue states and red states, impact thousands of people whose rights are protected when it comes to accessing complimentary…
The 18-year life expectancy gap between people with mental illness and the general population can only be bridged by protecting patients’ physical and mental health, according to a new study. As part of a Lancet Psychiatry Commission into mental illness, University of Queensland researchers found…
The apparent spread and prevalence of cancer is one of the more upsetting realities in modern health care and medicine. Although the western medical approach of using chemotherapy and radiation can often cause cancer to shrink and shift into remission, it’s far from one-hundred-percent effective…
By Dylan Charles Something important is missing from the psychiatric model of ‘mental illness.’ It’s not a secret or anything, but rather more of an omission. It should be there, but by no accident it’s absent. You see, human beings are multi-dimensional. We are made…
By Neenah Payne Unconventional Medicine: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love by Chris Kresser was published in November 2017. Amazon warns: The world is facing the greatest healthcare crisis it has ever seen. Chronic disease is…
By Susan Boskey Holism is about the big picture; it relates to the theory that nothing happens in a vacuum. When seeking answers to a problem, holism puts the emphasis on the ‘whole’ rather than the parts. The English Oxford Dictionaries define holism: The theory…
By Chris Kanthan In 2017, America will spend more than $10,000 per person on healthcare, or 18% of our GDP. In every measure of cost – total spending, per capita spending, spending as percentage of GDP – the US is #1. However, the results are…
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne “There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.“ — Victor Hugo. “We are all Indians now,” — Russell Means (Oglala Lakota actor, writer, musician, activist). We were robbed of information essential to our survival when we were…
By Eldon Dahl According to the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA), 70% of Canadians take and use ultra-safe and effective natural health products (NHPs) and are confident in the current licensing of Natural Products Numbers (NPNs); it’s the envy of most other countries and this…
By Grace Joubarne and Christine Massey Stop Psychotherapy Takeover’s (SPT) most recent initiative in the fight to stop the elimination of some 10,000 holistic, traditional, energy and spiritual care practitioners in Ontario was a new Submission, roughly 700 pages, sent by courier to the Competition…
Sometimes, an interest in medicine extends beyond the body to the mind and spirit. Holistic medicine is the belief that love can heal the body, as well as that improved attitudes, emotions, and social relationships can have a lasting healing effect. Of course, holistic medicine…
By Allison Reed, NaturalHealth365 Note: from Health Nut News Founder: I’ve reported on the deaths of 3 holistic doctors in the last 2 weeks, and now 2 MD’s who who have gone missing in recent days. I felt you’d want to see this article that came…
When you are sick, you likely reach for a bottle of cough syrup or a decongestant. When you have recurring headaches that aspirin doesn’t relieve, you likely call your doctor to run some tests and get to the bottom of what’s going on. Yet these…
