Dr. Russell | Frederick Natural Health

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There Is No Magic Pill: Six Forgotten Truths About Healing

We live in a society that has been taught to think that healing comes in a small pill. All we need is to find the right pill or the right combination of pills and we’ll get better. However, “heal” is of Germaic origin (heilen), meaning to make whole. If we look at the old English roots, hǣlan means to restore to sound health. Therefore, healing historically has been about restoring a person to wholeness. So I’d like to challenge how

September 26, 2016 No Comments

Feeling Overwhelmed With Making Changes? Do This ONE Thing First

A large part of having and maintaining a healthy life is change. Change can be drastic, big and even scary. If you’re farther off course from that healthy lifestyle you desire, the necessary impending changes can be paralyzing, sometimes to the point where you take no action. If we only focus on the end goal and become overwhelmed by the big changes we need to make to fully integrate the new lifestyle we want, we may overlook and dismiss the small and

August 3, 2016 No Comments

What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About “The Pill”

Think birth control pills are 100% safe and side effect free? Think again

June 29, 2016 No Comments

General

Nine Things I Wish My Patients Knew About Homeopathy

Homeopathy (ho-me-op-a-thy) is an individualized system of medicine that I use frequently with patients due to its efficacy, low-cost, and lack of drug interactions or side effects. Even though this medicine has been around long before penicillin, and was actually quite popular among doctors in the early 1900s, it is so different from our current conventional approach, that I often find patients confused about some key differences with receiving homeopathic care. Dr. Timothy Dooley wrote a wonderful book explaining homeopathy

May 19, 2016 23 Comments

Environmental Health

What is the One Organ You Should Love?

The body is an amazingly complex system, governed by a network of chemical highways. The best part about this system is that we don’t ever have to consciously think or be aware of it in order to live. For example, doing a “detox” or “cleanse” has become quite popular but many of us do not realize that our body is constantly detoxing as a normal part of life. Detoxification is a natural process that is required in order to help your body eliminate

April 11, 2016 1 Comment

A New Chapter

Last month we held an open house to celebrate Serenity’s one year anniversary (which was technically September) and honor naturopathic medicine week. There was great food, great people, and great live music (check out the videos on our YouTube channel). This event gave me a much-needed opportunity to reflect on this past year, so pardon the brief deviation from the typical health-related article. First, I am so grateful to everyone that attended, both in person and in spirit, and can’t wait until

November 6, 2015 No Comments

Flower Power Salad

Since moving to Frederick in August, I’ve been having such a great time identifying and using native herbs. But many of these plants are probably ignored by most people, thought to be weeds. This hobby of mine is formally known as wildcrafting. Wildcrafting is the harvesting of plants or herbs from the “wild” but sometimes these plants are right outside your front door. Or down the street at Baker Park. While it’s relatively easy to get into, wildcrafting does have some ethical and logistical

June 11, 2015 No Comments

Are You Ignoring This Key Relationship?

If you’re anything like a normal American, your schedule is probably busting at the seams due to all the things you’re trying to balance. If you’re not working (or worried about work), then you’re probably busy taking care of your family (my family is currently of the canine variety but she still need to be taken care of nonetheless). And don’t forget about trying to have a social life. Squeezing in time for a coffee date here or a long over-due

May 28, 2015 No Comments

Are You Changing With The Seasons?

Have you noticed now that Winter seems long behind us, people aren’t in such dreadful moods? When I first moved to Frederick, I was amazed at how friendly people were and it seemed completely natural for a total stranger to smile and engage in conversation. This is a far cry from growing up in Southern California, where you know better than to make eye contact with strangers. But as Winter clobbered us with single digit (or below, factoring in wind chill) temperatures,

April 20, 2015 No Comments

Kick Your Cold (or Flu) to the Curb!

This cold and flu season has been a particularly nasty one. Symptoms seem to linger for weeks and with the low efficacy of the flu vaccine this year, there’s not much the conventional world of medicine has to offer. Luckily, us naturopathic doctors have a few tricks up our sleeves to prevent the cold or flu from taking hold or speeding up its resolution if you already have it. One of my favorite remedies to use during this time of

March 18, 2015 No Comments

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