NUTR 4090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pharmacology, Acne Vulgaris, Blind Experiment
14 Apr 2017
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How do functional food and nutracuticals work with naturopathy . Naturopathic doctor is like being a family doctor with natural medicine. Use the same diagnostic techniques but different treatment. Trained in pharmacology, patients will be on other medication naturopaths need to know how drugs will interact. Try to look at underlying cause of disease, Most people seeing naturopath are looking for treatment not prevention. Gold standard double blind placebo controlled randomized trial. Research is important but so is clinical experience. Make sure you look at other studies too. Clinical practice may not be as effective as research shows. Maybe cants get them up to research dose. If patient isn"t willing to use a product dosnt matter what research shows. Food you eat doesn"t make a difference in acne (old study) New study shows sugar may play a part in acne. Low fat trend came from no research. British medical journal came out with article going over rediscovered data.
