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Seasonal Transitions – Mood

September 27, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

The seasonal transition to autumn brings with it cooler days and darker nights, but while some relish this change it can also wreak havoc on patients with certain mood disorders. The remarkable association between winter darkness and depression has been termed seasonal affective disorder, but the onset of autumn can affect other mood disorders as well. Less well-known is the autumn spike in manic episodes for patients with bipolar disorder, a condition increasingly recognized to follow complex seasonal patterns.

Are New Plant-Based Burgers Causing Digestive Problems?

August 31, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

Sometimes, treating digestive disorders can require unraveling a complex tangle of interrelated psychological, immunological, and gastroenterological factors. It can involve identifying and addressing such problems as hypochlorhydria, histamine intolerance, hiatal hernia, microscopic colitis, ileocecal valve dysfunction, or a microbiome devastated by multiple rounds of antibiotics. Other times, the most intractable digestive disorders can be effectively addressed by simply eliminating one particular food trigger from the diet.

What’s Causing the Myopia Epidemic?

July 31, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

The prevalence of myopia, or an inability to see distance objects clearly, has skyrocketed in young children over the last year. After optometrists noticed an alarming increase in the number of children needing corrective lenses, a study published by the American Medical Association found that myopia has doubled and in some places

Join us at the Florida National Chiropractic Convention

July 27, 2021 by J. Taylor

Energique is pleased to be attending the Florida National Chiropractic Show on August 26 - 29, 2021.

Taurine’s Underappreciated Role in the Nervous System

June 30, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

Given the rapidly aging population, there is an increasing demand for methods to support healthy brain aging and address the changes in cognitive function often associated therewith.

SUPPORT AFTER CORTICOSTEROIDS

May 31, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

Although corticosteroid withdrawal is a verified phenomenon, and has been reported in some cases to persist as long as 6-12 months[i], patients are not supposed to be experiencing side effects years after discontinuing their medication. Yet, sometimes patients report stubborn weight gain, beginning while taking a course of corticosteroids, which never went away and seems to resist all efforts to reverse.

Methylcobalamin Health Benefits

May 6, 2021 by Dr. Laurell Matthews, N.D.

The two most common forms of vitamin B12 used in dietary supplements are cyanocobalamin and methylcobalamin. The majority of these large molecules is identical, but each has a different moiety attached to the cobalt core.

Is Choline Truly Essential?

April 29, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

Known at one time as vitamin B4, before being stripped of its essential status, choline is a molecule required by every cell, being especially important for mitochondrial energy production, fetal neurological development, and healthy liver function. It also plays an underappreciated role in the methylation cycle, which bears upon everything from gene expression to cardiovascular health. So it seems inexplicable that such an important molecule could lose its vitamin status.

Pollen-Food Syndrome

March 31, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

Though pollen is often blamed for allergies, and while it plays an undeniable part, it is unlikely that pollen alone should cause otherwise healthy people to suffer such misery.

Detox Paradox – from St. John’s Wort to Grapefruit

February 28, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

The herb St. John’s wort is shrouded in folklore. Its very name is a reference to Saint John the Baptist whose feast day was chosen by the early Christian church to replace Litha, the pagan festival of midsummer. This figure likely became the herb’s namesake due to the ancient magical belief that, as a source of solary virtue, it was best when gathered at noon on midsummer’s day when the sun’s influence is at its strongest.

INTACT LUNG: A NATURAL SOURCE OF VITAMIN C AND COLLAGEN

January 29, 2021 by Ian Spohn, ND

From its humble beginnings as the basis of glue and gelatin desserts, collagen is rapidly becoming one of the most promising food-based dietary supplements. Research has already shown that oral collagen supplementation is effective to support wound healing and healthy skin aging with a capacity to increase skin hydration, skin elasticity, and dermal collagen density . Because collagen plays an important role in maintaining the elasticity of the skin, collagen support has become one of the cornerstones of anti-aging medicine.

Webinar 1/21/21 Stress and Blues

January 4, 2021 by J. Taylor

Begabati Lennihan, RN, CCH will discuss how homeopathy can enhance your practice by often providing faster relief than supplements can; both modalities work well together. Stress from our world situation is colliding now with wintertime blues. Learn tips from an experienced homeopath – how to simplify the choices, demystify the myths, and more easily get good results for your patients.