All Articles
You may read our selection of articles written by TrueNorth Health staff below.
Articles
Managing Parkinson’s Disease: Success in Amino Acid-based Therapy
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Health Science magazine, the member magazine of the National Health Association.
Csilla Veress, N.D., L.Ac is a Naturopathic doctor and Licensed Acupuncturist at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. She received her Master’s in Acupuncture and… read more
Unlocking Chronic Pain: The Mystery of the Trigger Point
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Health Science magazine, the member magazine of the National Health Association.
Gracie Yuen D.C. started seeking answers to her own health questions in the 1990s, including chronic respiratory infections, allergies, fatigue, and a genetic anemia. She read Fit for Life and started… read more
Success on a Plant-Based SOS-free Diet
Dr. Alan Goldhamer talks about the basics of health in this interview with the cool vegetarian.
Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk
Type 2 Diabetes Associated with Increased Intake of Animal Foods.
The effects of diet and lifestyle on health are notoriously difficult to ascertain. In order to begin to tease out patterns, researchers measure many variables in order to account for confounding variables (ie, factors that also correlate to the thing being studied).
To further make… read more
Vegan Diets Linked to Reduced Cataract Risk
This week, I was planning to write about recent research that found a strong, positive correlation between a diet including animal proteins and type 2 diabetes. The study "Low-carbohydrate diet scores and risk of type 2 diabetes in men" was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. As I was reading through the articles, though, I… read more
Understanding Diabetes
At TrueNorth Health Center we see many cases of type I and type II diabetes. Both types respond well to our diet and lifestyle recommendations, and type II diabetics often see reduction in symptoms by undergoing a medically-supervised water fast. While we recommend that everyone is medically supervised during a water fast, this is especially… read more
Vegetarian Diet May Reduce Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors associated with stroke, diabetes, coronary heart disease. One of the primary indicators of metabolic syndrome is extra weight around the waist. The indications of metabolic syndrome are any three of the following: blood presssure greater than 130/85 mmHG, fasting glucose greater than 100 mg/dL, large… read more
Study Suggests Routine Fasting May Affect Heart Health
Research by doctors and scientists at the Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT revealed metabolic changes during fasting that could be linked to better health. The most recent study confirmed their finding from an earlier study that was published in the October 2008 Journal of Cardiology. The original study found a correlation… read more
Case Study: Treatment of Appendicitis Without Drugs or Surgery
At TrueNorth Health, we see a variety of unique patient cases. Recently, our medical team treated a case of subacute appendicitis with medically supervised water only fasting followed by diet and lifestyle modifications. This patient recovered from the appendicitis, and the results are presented in the attached case study. A Case of… read more
Arthritis and Joint Pain
Learn how to live without this debilitating disease! People in non-western cultures who eat diets low in animal fat and protein have much lower incidences of all types of arthritis!
While most arthritis sufferers are being told that they will need to "learn to live with it," Drs. Goldhamer and Marano of the TrueNorth Health Center in Penngrove,… read more