Miles Naturopathics, PLLC

12/10/2025

Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Quit alcohol...I know this is not what you want to hear, but new genetic evidence links all levels of drinking to dementia...!

11/27/2025

Perhaps, we all ought to eat some traditional sauerkraut at our Thanksgiving meal today!!!

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Germany's sauerkraut bacteria eliminated anxiety disorders within 6 weeks completely, while benzos create dependence

German psychiatrists discovered that specific lactobacillus strains from traditional sauerkraut fermentation eliminate anxiety disorders by resetting gut-brain axis signaling that causes pathological anxiety. Patients with severe anxiety achieved complete remission within 6 weeks of probiotic therapy without any psychiatric medications.

Anxiety disorders increasingly appear to originate from disrupted gut microbiome composition that sends constant stress signals to the brain via the vagus nerve. The sauerkraut bacteria produce GABA (the brain's calming neurotransmitter) and other compounds in the gut that signal the brain to reduce anxiety responses. When patients consume therapeutic doses of these specific strains, the bacteria colonize the digestive tract and continuously produce anxiety-reducing signals. Brain imaging shows normalized amygdala activity and reduced stress hormone production. Within weeks, patients report their anxiety simply disappearing. It's like replacing the gut bacteria that scream danger constantly with bacteria that whisper calm.

The global anti-anxiety medication market exceeds $20 billion annually, dominated by benzodiazepines (Xanax, Va**um, Ativan) that patients become dependent on and require for life while facing cognitive impairment and addiction risks. A probiotic that cures anxiety in 6 weeks threatens this pharmaceutical market. Research funding flows toward new psychiatric drugs rather than gut microbiome solutions, despite German data showing superior outcomes with zero addiction potential.

American anxiety patients take daily benzodiazepines for years, becoming dependent while their anxiety never truly resolves. German anxiety patients consume sauerkraut bacteria for 6 weeks and achieve lasting remission without drugs. The microbiome cure works better and has no addiction risk—it just doesn't create lifetime pharmaceutical customers.

Why take addictive anxiety drugs forever when sauerkraut bacteria cure it in 6 weeks?

📊 Source: Psychosomatic Medicine, 2024

11/24/2025

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A new Virginia Tech study reveals that strength training is more effective than endurance in improving insulin sensitivity in obesity and Type 2 diabetes models.

🔬: Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
🔗: https://brnw.ch/21wXJno

11/04/2025

Grief is not a diagnosis...rather it is a time when human beings need compassionate presence.

For far too long, grief has been treated as abnormal, especially under traumatic circumstances. Today, normal reactions to extraordinary tragedy are being diagnosed, contained, or corrected by systems of supposed-care.

But, as I have said for more than three decades, grief is not a disorder that needs to be fixed or abbreviated or rushed. This type of coercion is imperialist coercion, and it adds to the extreme loneliness and despair that many grievers report.

When clinicians view those who are bereaved as problems they need to fix, they fail to see the sacredness of deep emotional experiences. Right after my own child died, I wrote, "Our love is worth every tear I shed." That remains true today; for me, and for anyone who has lost someone so beloved that our 'house' has become a 'house' of sorrow.

True caring of the bereaved begins with reverence and compassion, not with symptom management and "treatment". Most bereaved need others to willingly sit beside them as they bear the unbearable.

We must change the pedagogical models and cultural responses to those who are bereaved. We have to change the lexicon. Bereaved parents, for example, don't usually appreciate the words “dysfunctional” or "disordered“ or "excessive" as it relates to their grief. And, importantly, every word either opens or closes the heart.

In one of my study's findings, the least helpful 'strategy' of therapists, amongst four other points, was the therapists' attempt to 'find meaning' for the client. This is bad therapy, and I encourage clients to find another therapist if they are being pushed toward meaning-making.

In the Compassionate Bereavement Care (tm) provider training (30 CEUs available), we teach clinicians how to let meaning emerge. How to invite stories that help clients process deep, traumatic grief, instead of imposing their own interpretations of the loss. We teach them when and how to ask about the love, the regrets, the fragments of beauty that still flicker - and the moments of terror that still rage - in the context of a resonantly safe relationship. We teach them how to listen for the mourner’s language and culture and context, not using the clinician’s standards or understandings or diagnostic systems of harm. We teach clinicians to practice sacred silence and sacred presence. We teach how to release the urge to direct or fix: silence will do her quiet work. We teach clinicians to bear witness to sorrow as an act of love, not pathology.

Caring for others in a professional or para-professional role is not a "treatment" for bereavement. Caring for others is an ethic, a way of seeing, bearing witness to tragedies that elude the conception of most.

For clinicians to honor grief is to remember that the one who mourns is not broken, but faithfully still loving, even when who they so deeply love is gone. The question is not how to make grief smaller but how to make our presence worthy of its immensity.

With compassion for all,
Dr. Jo

** Next training is April of 2026. More information can be found here: https://www.missfoundation.org/compassionate-bereavement-care-certification/ **

Please share if you know a clinician or peer counselor who may benefit from this training (online and in person, though I LOVE the in-person option because its held Selah Carefarm )

10/29/2025

Insulin Resistant? Pre-diabetic? Thinking you need some kind of expensive fancy supplement? Or maybe just 15-20 different supplements being marketed to you by your social media feed, cause yeah, that makes a lot of sense? Often it's the simple things we overlook as human beings. In my experience, we're often drawn to the flashy trends, the over-the-top "solutions" that sound ridiculous and "out there." Or sometimes it's just something we want to be told like... "Eat bacon every meal and it's good for your cardiovascular health." (spoiler alert--it isn't!). But oats? What's so glamorous about oats? Nada. And yet just two days of eating mostly oats, dramatically reset blood sugar control for diabetics such that they needed dramatically less insulin--the effects lasting nearly a month even after they returned to their presumably poor diet....Imagine what might happen if they transformed their diet to a whole food plant based diet long term...? Listen to the information yourself...

The surprising power of a very unassuming food.

10/26/2025

Visiting a health care professional can be quite challenging as an HSP, but it doesn't have to be if you seek out a professional that "gets you." Learn more about strategies when going to the doctor in this article. Naturopathic medicine and particularly homeopathy can be especially well suited to HSPs.



https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/why-doctor-visits-really-are-different-for-highly-sensitive-people/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNriX1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvgLckoNjQMLnSNWDnCimdexEYxoeqHYnZvXhXG_xfCbgH3k5cpGnrMX1dNA_aem_LVDmRhq_SzqpysynXi4Alg

The reason starts with our nervous system: For highly sensitive people, it’s like the dial on our senses has been turned way up.

10/25/2025

Looks delish!! Have you tried this one? Tell me what you think of it in the comments!

10/13/2025

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 🌍 Today, let’s lean in to a more indigenous holistic understanding of our relationship to nature, to the planet, and to everything around us. First Nations cultures have an embedded respect for the entirety of nature and have been steeped in these traditions of respect for thousands of years. How one relates to the planet and other living things is seen as part of one's spiritual practice and relationship to the Divine. In our modern lives this beautiful practice of respect is often missing from our lives. For today let's ponder the words of the great leader Oglala Lakota and "Let every step you take on the earth be as a prayer."



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10/12/2025

Research demonstrates that walking in the forest can decrease blood pressure. When was the last time you took a hike amongst the trees?

✨️and the trees welcome us, the weight releases, light, clarity and a spirit of giving return.

10/12/2025

Cows eat plants. That’s how they get their protein.

So when people eat cows for protein… they’re just getting it secondhand.

Why not cut out the middleman and go straight to the source?

10/09/2025

What a beautiful and inspiring perspective!