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idea that of prevention. When symptoms or health issues arise, a naturopathic physician generally views them as a series of messages that the body is out of balance. The treatment approach is to address the underlying cause of the health imbalance, rather than simply treat the symptoms. Treating the symptoms fundamentally does not address the issue of why they are there in the first place.</p> <p>As a naturopathic doctor, my role is to promote health and wellness, rather than simply treat the disease. Let us use an example. When someone presents to me with diabetes, cancer, or menstrual irregularities, I will first of all treat them all the same way as people. These people are not simply ‘walking-diabetics’, ‘walking-cancers’, or ‘walking-menstrual irregularities’, these are people who happen to have a health issue. Naturopathic medicine is people-medicine. The idea is to not simply treat the disease, but promote health. Its foundation is rooted in the health-based paradigm, rather than that of a disease-based paradigm.</p> <p>Thus far, conventional approach to wellness is based on the idea of ‘early’ pharmaceutical interventions, vaccinations, or numerous screenings. This is not wellness, nor does it promote health. To help resolve the current healthcare reform, the fundamental change must take place and it ought to be based on the idea of health-promotion. To promote health is to engage people in healthy lifestyles, or help them change their self-destructive habits, or behaviors. It is to support people and teach what health truly means to them.</p> <p>Naturopathic medicine offers numerous solutions to the current system. On May 4, 2009, hundreds of naturopathic physicians and supporters will be on Capitol Hill to promote the change of the current health care reform. Both doctors and the supporters of naturopathic medicine will be asking the Members of Congress for their support of H.Con.Res.58. This resolution is crafted to help change the current health care system from one that is disease-based to one that focuses on prevention, and health-promotion. To express your support and to be an advocate of the legislature, please visit the <a href="http://naturopathic.org/content.asp?contentid=79" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/naturopathic.org');">Legislative Action Center</a>, where you will have an opportunity to express your own support of the resolution.</p> <p><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Naturopathic Medicine: A Solution To The Current Healthcare System", url: "http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=50" });</script></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Tags: <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=capitol-hill" rel="tag">Capitol Hill</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=health" rel="tag">health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=health-promotion" rel="tag">health-promotion</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=healthcare-reform" rel="tag">healthcare reform</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=may-4-2009" rel="tag">May 4 2009</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=naturopathic-medicine" rel="tag">Naturopathic Medicine</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=wellness" rel="tag">wellness</a><br /> Posted in <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=37" title="View all posts in Cancer" rel="category">Cancer</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=115" title="View all posts in Environmental Health" rel="category">Environmental Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=18" title="View all posts in Heart Health" rel="category">Heart Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Naturopathic Medicine" rel="category">Naturopathic Medicine</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=76" title="View all posts in US Health" rel="category">US Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=74" title="View all posts in Women's Health" rel="category">Women's Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=25" title="View all posts in exercise" rel="category">exercise</a> | <span>Comments Off</span></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-43"><a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=43" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Caffeine Reduces Muscle Soreness, but Ignores the Dangerous Effects">Caffeine Reduces Muscle Soreness, but Ignores the Dangerous Effects</a></h3> <small>Tuesday, April 14th, 2009</small> <div class="entry"> <p>A <a href="http://www.humankinetics.com/IJSNEM/viewarticle.cfm?jid=X3bL8v6LX2jC2x8vX8fU7sjhX3gW7zLxX3vC73tFX7uE32YnX&aid=16911&site=X3bL8v6LX2jC2x8vX8fU7sjhX3gW7zLxX3vC73tFX7uE32YnX" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.humankinetics.com');">recent study</a> in the <a href="http://www.humankinetics.com/IJSNEM/journalAbout.cfm" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.humankinetics.com');">International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism</a> suggests that a moderate dose of caffeine can reduce muscle pain and soreness during and after exercise. The senior researcher of this work, <a href="http://www.kch.uiuc.edu/staff/robmotl.htm" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.kch.uiuc.edu');">Robert Motl</a>, at the <a href="http://illinois.edu/" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/illinois.edu');">University of Chicago in Champaign</a>, states that caffeine could be a safe substance to curb muscle soreness for exercisers. Unfortunately, the study neglects to observe the fact that caffeine has numerous dangerous effects on the body.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Effects_on_the_heart" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">Caffeine</a> is a stimulant, and when the molecule binds to the receptors of the heart muscle it mimics the effects that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">epinephrine</a>. This causes an increase in the activation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">sympathetic nervous system</a>, which in effect speeds up the heart rate even more during normal exercise. The caffeine effects also potentiate the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_glands" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">adrenal glands</a>, resulting in the increased secretion of the stress hormone, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">cortisol</a>, which increases blood pressure and promotes water excretion. The caffeine molecule easily crosses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">blood-brain barrier</a> and has a direct effect on the brain activity, affecting learning and memory, increasing anxiety and moods.</p> <p>Caffeine is not the answer to reducing muscle soreness in exercisers. Regular, moderate exercise is a much healthier solution to reducing the overall soreness of the muscles.</p> <p><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Caffeine Reduces Muscle Soreness, but Ignores the Dangerous Effects", url: "http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=43" });</script></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Tags: <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=anxiety" rel="tag">anxiety</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=caffeine" rel="tag">caffeine</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=cortisol" rel="tag">cortisol</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=exercise" rel="tag">exercise</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=health" rel="tag">health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=memory" rel="tag">memory</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=nutrition" rel="tag">nutrition</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=sleep" rel="tag">Sleep</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=stress" rel="tag">stress</a><br /> Posted in <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=18" title="View all posts in Heart Health" rel="category">Heart Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=44" title="View all posts in Sleep" rel="category">Sleep</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=76" title="View all posts in US Health" rel="category">US Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=25" title="View all posts in exercise" rel="category">exercise</a> | <span>Comments Off</span></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-42"><a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=42" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sleep Patterns and Effects on Children">Sleep Patterns and Effects on Children</a></h3> <small>Thursday, April 9th, 2009</small> <div class="entry"> <p>Sleep can have profound effects on health. Sleep patterns early in life can often reflect on the health outcomes later in life. A recent <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/4/1171?rss=1”_self" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/pediatrics.aappublications.org');"> study </a> in the <a href="http://www.jpeds.com/" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.jpeds.com');"> Journal of Pediatrics </a> by <a href="http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10270" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.iop.kcl.ac.uk');"> Dr. Alice Gregory </a> at the <a href="www.lon.ac.uk" style="font-weight: bold">University of London</a>, suggests that sleep patterns and/or problems can affect children’s mental abilities in early adolescence. Similarly, <a href="http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/162/4/330" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/archpedi.ama-assn.org');"> other works </a> by Dr. Gregory, suggest that sleep problems during early development correlate to self-reported anxiety and/or depression, attention-deficit problems, as well as potentially aggressive behavior later in life.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jpedhc.org/article/S0891-5245(03)00150-0/abstract" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.jpedhc.org');">Some studies</a> have shown that as many as 25% of children 5 years of age and younger tend to experience some form of a sleep issue. Sleep is essential to life and good health. Identifying factors in children’s life that contribute to poor sleeping habits, including too much time with television/computer, excessive sugar/soda intake, lack of play or exercise, and many others are critical to improving the sleeping patterns. Sleep is the time during which the body has an opportunity to rest, grow, rebuild, and regenerate.</p> <p><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sleep Patterns and Effects on Children", url: "http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=42" });</script></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Tags: <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=adhd" rel="tag">ADHD</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=anxiety" rel="tag">anxiety</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=attention-deficit" rel="tag">attention deficit</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=behavioral" rel="tag">behavioral</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=children" rel="tag">children</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=depression" rel="tag">depression</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=health" rel="tag">health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=pediatrics" rel="tag">pediatrics</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=sleep" rel="tag">Sleep</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=sleep-problems" rel="tag">sleep problems</a><br /> Posted in <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=44" title="View all posts in Sleep" rel="category">Sleep</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=76" title="View all posts in US Health" rel="category">US Health</a> | <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=42#comments" title="Comment on Sleep Patterns and Effects on Children">3 Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-34"><a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=34" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Think, Feel, Live, and Love Your Heart…">Think, Feel, Live, and Love Your Heart…</a></h3> <small>Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009</small> <div class="entry"> <p>How most of us think, feel, and live affects our hearts. Positive thoughts, mental/emotional states, will greatly reduce stress and improve heart health, while those that are negative will have an opposite effect. Behavioral, psychosocial, and psychological factors play an important role in health and disease. In looking at the effects of mental states and cardiovascular health, we can observe that in most people there is a direct relationship. Researchers suggest that seasonal mood changes have a direct correlation with the rates of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/en.wikipedia.org');">acute myocardial infarctions</a> (heart attacks). While, the <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mental_Health_Letter" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.health.harvard.edu');">Harvard Mental Health Letter</a> (February, 2007) notes that at least half of the people hospitalized with a heart condition suffer from depression, or depressive symptoms. These same patients are 2 to 5 times more likely to take longer to recover, and/or suffer additional cardiovascular events.</p> <p><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_/ai_107201202" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/findarticles.com');">Anderson</a>, in his review of cardiovascular responses, summarizes that when study participants are subjected to various mental and emotional states, (some of which are anger, sadness, fear, or happiness), each of them directly affect the blood pressure. There are numerous psychosocial factors that play a role in cardiovascular health, and at the top of this list is <a href="http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/heart_stress.htm" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.nhlbi.nih.gov');">stress</a>. During a response to a stressful situation, or event, a surge of stress hormones is released into the blood stream, which causes all of the blood vessels to constrict. The heartbeat increases as well, which ultimately forces the cardiovascular system to be more susceptible and reactive to any additional stressors. Furthermore, stress is a major contributing factor to myriad states of cardiovascular inflammation, such as those found in cases of atherosclerosis.</p> <p>It is important to note that <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Heart_disease_Its_partly_in_your_head.htm" style="font-weight: bold" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.health.harvard.edu');">mental, emotional, and psychosocial factors</a> play a major role not only in cardiovascular health, but in all states of health and dis-ease. If your doctor is not asking you about your mental/emotional health I strongly encourage you to either bring it up yourself, or seek a healthcare provider who will. As a naturopathic physician, working on all levels of a patient’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being is essential, and is therefore what I incorporate as part of all of my treatment plans and programs. After all, this is what makes us ‘whole’.</p> <p><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Think, Feel, Live, and Love Your Heart…", url: "http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?p=34" });</script></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Tags: <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=blood-vessels" rel="tag">blood vessels</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=cardiovascular" rel="tag">cardiovascular</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=health" rel="tag">health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=heart-attacks" rel="tag">heart attacks</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=heart-health" rel="tag">Heart Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=mentalemotional-health" rel="tag">mental/emotional health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=mood" rel="tag">mood</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=myocardial-infraction" rel="tag">myocardial infraction</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=naturopathic" rel="tag">naturopathic</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=seasonal-mood" rel="tag">seasonal mood</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?tag=stress" rel="tag">stress</a><br /> Posted in <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=18" title="View all posts in Heart Health" rel="category">Heart Health</a>, <a href="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Naturopathic Medicine" rel="category">Naturopathic Medicine</a> | <span>Comments Off</span></p> </div> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </ul> </li> </li> <a class="a2a_dd addtoany_subscribe" href="http://www.addtoany.com/subscribe?linkname=Portland%20Naturopathic%20Medicine%20and%20Acupuncture%20Blog&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwfwcenter.com%2Fblog%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2"><img src="http://wfwcenter.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/add-to-any/subscribe_16_16.png" width="16" height="16" alt="Subscribe"/></a> <a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/health/natural-health" title="Natural Health Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory"><img src="http://assets.blogcatalog.com/buttons/blogcatalog5.gif" alt="Natural Health Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory" style="border: 0;" /></a> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PortlandNaturopathicMedicineAndAcupunctureBlog" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PortlandNaturopathicMedicineAndAcupunctureBlog" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p> <div id="twitter_div"> <h2 style="display: none;" >Twitter Updates</h2> <ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul> <a href="http://twitter.com/drschwartzman" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:middle;">follow me on Twitter</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ischwartzman.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script></a> </li>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script>  <div id="div-1231439555263" style="width:200px;border:1px solid #cccccc;"></div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var skin = {}; 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