Natural Health Help

Depression is one of the top five conditions that people want to self-treat with non-drug therapies. St John’s wort (SJW) is one of the best known plant medicines. It is effective for a number of conditions, including mild to moderate depression. Read the rest of this article »

Logan Smith has died. This not-quite 10 year old was in his mother’s arms when the kidney cancer he traveled with for 7 months ended his life. His family has spent these months knit tightly around him. His 2 brothers, his mom and her partner, all nested in and went with him as far as anyone possibly can, on the journey we will all take. Surrounding them is a larger community of family and friends and care providers that has been present with practical and energetic loving support. It has been at times unspeakably agonizing to stay present to the death journey of this child. Witnessing the love that was poured out in response to these demands, especially on and from his Mom, and on his closest family, and the relentless fortitude and attention they have paid to every moment with Logan, is a source of learning and inspiration that now reverberates through many lives. Read the rest of this article »

Essential Oils can be powerful medicine to help you fall asleep. Your sense of smell, and the olfactory nerve are a major pathway defining your mood and your physical energy. Essential oils are a safe, effective and non-drug method you can use to produce a deep, restful sleep. They are great when added to an Epsom salt bath or infused into your room. Read the rest of this article »

Not everyone has the time or even wants to slog through research reports to find out where the cutting edge of medical research is taking us. However, often enough we find ourselves needing to make a decision, or wanting to make a change, that we need to feel really sure about. That’s when we want to read the research. A fresh wind of generosity, of open access to information, is blowing open what used to be the closed doors of science. Open Access is a new model of independent publishing that makes research available to everyone. Read the rest of this article »

I borrowed the following from Mike Adams who runs NaturalNews. This is especially exciting for those women who want to use herbal medicine to support their well-being. “Extract of black cohosh may halt the growth of breast cancer cells, according to a new study conducted by the French company Naturex and published in the journal “Phytomedicine.” The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.” Read the rest of this article »

If you arrived here through my main practice website, drnandunne.com, you may have seen the new notice in the upper left corner. It says “Please help 9 year old Logan Smith fight his cancer”. Logan is a regular kid, part of a regular family here in my town, Missoula, MT. He has kidney cancer. Read the rest of this article »

There’s a lot of bad news about drugs. Some of the biggest sellers, the ones that block stomach acid, like Zantac, Prilosec and Tagamet, cause a nearly 250% increased risk of dementia. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) the risk of hip fracture increases by 22% after one year and nearly 60% after four years in people using similar gut “soothers” like Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that the diabetes medication, Avandia, will increase the risk of heart attacks by up to 40%. Hormone replacement therapy for women and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been taken off the market after thousands of people were made ill or died from drug effects. Read the rest of this article »

If you have trouble sleeping, nutritional supplements, herbs, aromatherapy, exercise, psychotherapy or prescription medication are some of the ways you can help yourself. Quite often, changes in habits are all that is needed to improve sleep. Read the rest of this article »

It makes a lot of simple common sense that when we eat food with the residues of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides on it, we are swallowing tiny but consistent amounts of what is essentially poison. And we know these residues build up, in our body tissues, just like the mercury builds up in the tuna. And so it makes sense to eat organically raised food as much as possible, just to avoid as much of the bad stuff as possible. Read the rest of this article »

Losing weight is really hard work. Especially doing it right, meaning you become actually healthier while you do it, and then you turn your success into maintaining a healthy weight lifelong. Ideally you will grab the challenge and run with it; you’ll have a great time, continuously rewarded by the fantastic fulfillment of overcoming difficulty and meeting your goal. Some of us can get excited by the idea, gather up the tools we need and then get it done, joyfully. Many of us never start; it seems overwhelming. It means change. Food, the way we think of it, even what we think it is, is so central to our lives that even when we know that the way we are using food is hurting us, change sometimes seems impossible. Read the rest of this article »