Quantcast
Channel: Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Browsing all 41 articles
Browse latest View live

Do You Need a Parasite Cleanse?

It is estimated that over 150 million people are infected with parasites, making them much more common than most people believe.  If you are doing everything to keep healthy and are still having...

View Article


How to Break Your Sugar Addiction

The number one cause of cellular inflammation and the diseases and symptoms associated with it is refined sugar. Sadly today sugar is added to—and hidden in—about 75% of all foods. Sugar in all forms...

View Article


12 Strategies to Protect Your Health Every Day

I have often said that vibrant health is possible for everyone. And it’s not just about preventing disease, though that is a big part of it. Truly vibrant health stems from balance, for which our...

View Article

Should You Use Birth Control Pills During Perimenopause?

For over 50 years, birth control pills have been pushed on women as the optimal method of contraception.  The reliability of other methods of birth control has been downplayed and women have even been...

View Article

Should You Get the Flu Shot This Year?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all Americans over the age of 6 months receive an annual flu shot. Many doctors push the flu vaccine on patients during regular...

View Article


5 Top Health Benefits of Coffee

If there is one question I hear often, it’s “Should I drink coffee?” According to a 2017 Gallup Poll, two thirds of Americans drink at least one cup of coffee every day. This figure has remained...

View Article

Powerful Ways to Improve Your Health and Longevity with Epigenetics

Scientists have long been fascinated with human DNA and the science of what is called genetic determinism—or the idea that you are destined to get the diseases that run in your family. That’s why when...

View Article

Why You May Need Bioidentical Hormones

Many women approach menopause with the desire to take only “natural” hormones to help alleviate their symptoms. This causes quite a bit of confusion and miscommunication between doctors and their...

View Article


Best Breast Cancer Screening Test

I am not a fan of screening your breasts to look for disease. But most women have been conditioned to look for what can go wrong with their health, and particularly their breasts after a certain age....

View Article


How to Heal from Anything

Many people believe that health is an absence of symptoms. And the Western medical system supports this. In medical school, we were taught to think in terms of absolutes—curable or incurable. Yet...

View Article

An Empath’s Best Protection Against Energy Vampires

Are you in a relationship with an energy vampire?  Fully 20 percent of all people (male and female) have vampire characteristics or are full-blown Cluster Bs. That’s one in five people!  Each one of...

View Article

How to Nourish Yourself During a Family Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one holiday that is all about the food. There is often a lot of anticipation about the day and lots of planning around the meal. These traditions can be wonderful and joyful. And it...

View Article

Quell Hot Flashes During Perimenopause

Hot flashes are the most common menopausal symptom. Anywhere from 50 to 85 percent of women experience hot flashes and night sweats at some point during perimenopause. For some women hot flashes lead...

View Article


Why Fear is Bad for Your Health

There are basically two ways to live: in faith or in fear. Unfortunately, many people live in fear most of the time.  I am not talking about a constant fear of danger, although for some this is true....

View Article

Things I Am Too Wise for This Year

I often hear people say, “I’m too old for that.” While I believe that you are never too old to do the things you truly love, I do believe we outgrow certain things as we get older. Many of the things...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Benefits of Fascial Release

For a long time, muscle fascia was considered to be just the white “saran wrap” around your muscles. In fact, when I was in medical school we were instructed to remove the fascia from cadavers so we...

View Article

12 Easy Ways to Improve Your Heart Health

Heart disease is the leading killer of women over the age of 50, and heart attacks are twice as deadly for women as they are for men. Statistics (which need not apply to you) show that 1 in 2 women...

View Article


Are You Addicted To Stress Caused by Chronic Busyness?

How many times have you been asked the question, “how are you?” and your reply is “busy?”   In today’s world almost everyone is busy. Busy is the new status quo. It has become almost like a competition...

View Article

How to Fire Up Your Metabolism at Midlife

You have probably heard that weight gain at midlife is due to your metabolism slowing down. And research shows that this is partially true: your basal metabolic rate decreases about one to two percent...

View Article

Upgrade Your Health with High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy

I rarely devote and entire blog to a single therapy. And when it comes to treating symptoms, I have never believed in magic bullets. But, if anything comes close, it’s good old vitamin C.  Vitamin C...

View Article
Browsing all 41 articles
Browse latest View live