During a recent camping trip in the beautiful Colorado mountains, I was reminded of just how much I dislike mosquitoes. While I can reconcile a purpose for almost all other creatures, the mosquito continues to baffle me. While the silence of the days, the thousands of stars visible in the night sky, and the smell […]
I find it interesting how old concepts so quickly become the new craze in popular culture, before vanishing away almost as quickly into the shadows of yesterday’s news. In my work as a student clinician and also since becoming a board certified Naturopathic Doctor, I’ve encountered numerous questions and claims about a current craze – […]
The week of April 24-April 30 is National Infertility Awareness Week. Infertility, defined as the inability to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sex with the intention to become pregnant, is a troubling reality for many couples. The CDC estimates that 10.9% of women have trouble conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term – that’s […]
A recently published article by Baum et al. in the Journal of Nutrition explored the relationship between high-carbohydrate diets and high-protein diets in normal weight and overweight/obese teens age 8-12 years. They looked at a number of variables after the breakfast was consumed, including energy expenditure, blood sugar levels, level of satiety (appetite), and amount […]
There seems to be a general oversight in the medical field when it comes to teen health. Parents and physicians alike often focus our efforts on growing strong babies and then skip forward to supporting healthy adults, assuming that our able-bodied teens require little to no medical intervention during this in-between time period. However, as […]
During the month of February it’s nearly impossible to ignore the onslaught of reminders about St. Valentine and Cupid’s pesky little arrows. Whether you view it as an obligatory Hallmark holiday, or find yourself blissfully knee-deep in red and pink chocolate boxes and sappy Rom-Coms, February is still widely associated with one thing: love. What […]
I was recently afflicted with my first cold since moving back to Colorado in August. While thankful that my immune system managed to withstand the germy threats of many new students on a college campus and all my fellow acro-yogis, the sniffles finally set in about 10 days ago (the day after my final lecture […]