Sleep is fundamental to health, and yet sleeplessness is an epidemic. Leaving aside the question of what causes this phenomenon (ranging from individual physiology to global climate change) one key issue is what we can do when insomnia hits us personally. Sleep...
What’s the best way to check your thyroid health? Here are the top tests I recommend to my patients as part of a comprehensive medical evaluation.
I’m honored to offer naturopathic medicine to Alaskans, but current rules keep me from offering the best care. Senate Bill 44 can change that — with your help.
New Year’s day was as one of those perfect Pacific Northwest winter days — 45 degrees, misty and soft. The kind of day that smells and feels like earth. My garden is pretty much hibernating. A long spell of deep cold knocked back the last of my greens. There’s a...
Naturopathic patients are a pretty food-savvy bunch. We know what to ask about the provenance of our food. We pay attention to ingredients, to gluten, to dairy, to grass-fed/free-range/high-omega-3/sustainability parameters (except when we just go for a donut.) So it...
Heat domes and heat waves are all over the news — and as I write this, you're probably sharing the experience. For the last several years I've been creating and gathering resources about surviving (if not beating the heat) and wanted to put them all into one place for...
Has your doctor told you that certain foods may impair your thyroid function? Are you unsure which foods those are? Many of my patients run into the same problem, and so I've created a resource for them and for you. what's a goitrogen? Goitrogens are compounds in food...
One of my patients was almost charged ten times too much for a basic screening Vitamin D test. It shouldn’t be this way — and it doesn’t have to be.
How you poop offers important clues to your state of health or disease. Here’s how to know you’re doing — and what you can do to poop better.
As the year draws to a close, I'm happy to report some good news for Alaskans: I'm now in network with more local insurance companies under the banner of Alta Natural Medicine. Alaskans covered by Blue Cross, First Choice, Multiplan and Beech Street can now see me as...