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A registered Naturopathic doctor is a healthcare provider trained as an expert in natural medicine, which includes a 4-year, post graduate degree, including pharmacology, bio chem and physical sciences, botanical & physical medicine, and nutrition.

11/04/2026

A big thank you to Azure Standard for sponsoring the 2026 CoAND Conference!

You may know Azure Standard for its natural and organic foods, delivered to convenient community drop locations throughout Colorado and across the country.

But did you know they also have something for healthcare providers?

Through Azure Living Well and the AzureWell Practitioner Program, NDs and other healthcare professionals can recommend products, share customized lists with patients, and access a growing selection of supplements and natural health products.

Whether you're shopping for your family or supporting your patients, Azure has something worth exploring!

Thank you, Azure Standard, for supporting Colorado's naturopathic doctors!

Learn more: https://www.azurelivingwell.com

09/29/2026

Doing everything “right” but still feeling tired?

You’re exercising. Eating well. Trying to take care of yourself.

But sometimes the body simply isn’t getting enough fuel to support everything you’re asking it to do.

Our latest blog looks at Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, or RED-S, and why under-fueling can affect energy, recovery, hormones, bone health, and performance — even in recreationally active adults.

Read the full post, then follow the link to the original article in Naturopathic Doctor News & Review. https://ndnr.com

And while you’re there, take a look through our other Health & Wellness articles or find a registered naturopathic doctor in Colorado.

09/22/2026

Conference planning requires focus. A LOT of focus.

So while the volunteers on the CoAND Conference Committee were laying out the 2026 schedule, we found ourselves eyeing Heron Botanicals’ ElephanTonic rather seriously.

Perfect timing to thank Heron Botanicals for joining us as a conference partner and exhibitor — and to welcome Heron Botanicals co-owner Dr. Eric Yarnell as one of our keynote speakers.

Herbal medicine. Deep clinical experience. A company with real naturopathic roots.

We are very glad they’ll be with us in beautiful downtown Manitou Springs, November 13–14. 2026

Register for the CoAND CE Conference & Retreat: https://coloradond.org/2026-conference/

09/18/2026

Has your doctor ever asked what you do for a living?

It may sound like small talk. It isn’t.

A recent case published in Naturopathic Doctor News & Review followed a 25-year-old man with significant hormone-related symptoms. One question changed the direction of the case:

“What do you do for a living?”

He fabricated stained glass — work that can involve exposure to lead and other metals.

That one detail opened up an entirely different line of investigation.

This is one of the things we mean when we talk about a naturopathic approach to medicine. Your health history isn’t only your diagnoses, medications and lab results. Your work, environment, habits, exposures and daily life may also contain important clues.

Sometimes good medicine starts with asking a better question.

Read the case from Naturopathic Doctor News & Review:
https://ndnr.com/occupational-heavy-metal-exposure-testosterone-deficiency/

09/04/2026

If you have ten hours, I would really like to convince you to think differently about your health.

Okay. You probably don't have ten hours. So maybe just start with one of our Philosophical Issues posts: What Is Health? How a Blog Post Ruined My Day. Start From Strength. Do You Have to Watch It All to Care? The Convenience Lifestyle. The Pleasure Trap.

Boy, this sounds appetizing, I know.

But this series is where we get to have the deeper conversations about health. Not just what to eat, how much to exercise, or whether you should be taking a supplement, but the questions underneath all of that. What do we actually mean when we say we want to be healthy? Why is it so hard to do the things we already know are probably good for us? What has convenience changed about the way we live? Why do we tend to start with everything that is wrong instead of everything that is still working?

We talk about pleasure, habits, responsibility, resilience, environment, and the strange gap between knowing and doing. In other words, the stuff that tends to make health a lot more complicated than a checklist.

These are not ten-second wellness tips. They are more like the kind of thing you read, think about for a while, and then maybe look up from your screen and say, “I’m going for a walk.”

And, hopefully after your walk, you'll say, “I should probably talk to a naturopathic doctor.”

https://coloradond.org/category/philosophical-issues/

08/21/2026

“Food as medicine” can sound a little lofty.

But the basic idea is pretty practical:

Your body uses what you eat to fuel itself, maintain tissues, support normal function and keep its systems running.

So eating well doesn’t have to mean following a perfect diet.

It can look like adding a handful of greens to dinner. Eating some yogurt. Choosing fruit for a snack. Adding beans, nuts, whole grains or fermented foods more often.

No single food is magic.

And this isn’t just a wellness slogan. The Rockefeller Foundation estimates that the effects of our food system on human health cost the U.S. roughly $1.1 trillion every year in healthcare costs and lost productivity.

So maybe “food as medicine” is less about treating food like a prescription...and more about remembering that what we routinely give the body matters.

Good inputs. Repeated often.

08/18/2026

CoAND, 1 CE Webinar is this Wednesday at 12:30 pm. Register here: https://coand.wildapricot.org/events

Presentation Title: Beyond the Infection - COVID-19 and Metabolic Dysfunction

Presentation Description: This presentation takes a clinically focused look at the complex relationship between COVID-19 and blood glucose dysregulation, examining how inflammation, insulin resistance, pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction, hypercoagulability, microbiome disruption, and histamine pathways may contribute to persistent metabolic and neurologic symptoms. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how glucose-insulin imbalance may present through fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbance, neuropathy, and gastrointestinal symptoms in post-COVID patients. The presentation also highlights practical therapeutic strategies—including medications, nutrients, and botanical medicine —to support a more targeted, systems-based approach to patient care.
Free to CoAND members
$25 for non members

This webinar is sponsored by ClarityTx

08/14/2026

We have MANY committed sponsors and partners of the Colorado Association of Naturopathic Doctors. We want to take a moment to highlight Community 1 They are a digital marketing company that goes way beyond the "build your website" and excels at moving the needle (which is hard to do on the Internet)...in terms of your rankings. We thank them for their support of CoAND and its naturopathic doctors and look forward to our continued relationship.

"We are a full scale digital marketing company for privately owned medical practices. We specialize in custom website design and management, so your practices shows up higher on Google search, ChatGPT search (a very evolving search engine in 2026), Claude AI search, and Google and Apple Maps.

We create custom content that you own, if you are not satisfied with our results within 9 months. We are a small business just like you, so we are very hands on with your analytics, meetings, and reviews.

We are a very proud sponsor of CoAnd and happy to be back for our second conference in a row, come say hi at our booth to discuss the conference special in November!"

-Jason and Jonny

08/12/2026

What if healthcare gave you a little more to work with?

More understanding of what may be contributing to a problem. More attention to the things that shape health long before a diagnosis shows up. More conversation. More prevention. More ownership of your own health.

A good history takes time.

When there is time to ask not only where does it hurt? but when did it start, what changed, what else is happening, how are you sleeping, what are you eating, what medications are you taking, what has already been tried? — those questions aren’t small talk. They’re clinical information.

That is really what our “Why Naturopathic Medicine?” series is about.

We’ve written about what happens at a first ND visit, how naturopathic doctors think through treatment, the role of prevention, mental health, the Therapeutic Order, clinical touch, and even how the healthcare system itself can shape the care you receive.

You don’t have to read them all. Pick the one that makes you stop for a second.

Maybe start there.

Explore the “Why Naturopathic Medicine?” series → https://coloradond.org/category/why-naturopathic-medicine/

08/06/2026

Saturday is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. I'm telling you this a few days early to give you time to BE READY.

Which sounds less like a national observance and more like what happens when Colorado gardeners lose control of the garden situation.

But there may be something healthy buried in all that zucchini: seasonal food, shared abundance and neighbors who actually know one another.

Research continues to confirm that social connection matters to both physical and mental health. Sometimes health looks like eating your vegetables. Sometimes it looks like walking them next door.😆

Consider this your weekend prescription: share the zucchini.

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Erie, CO
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http://www.ColoradoND.org/

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