Genesis School of Natural Health

12/08/2025

Graduate Focus: Sarah Schnurpel, MH, TND

Living in a Colorado mountain cooperative community with family, a growing love and gratitude for family, friends, and mentors shape this path and purpose. I serve as clinical operations lead at Third Space, supporting telehealth access for underserved communities and new therapists. My background includes studies in psychology, training in yoga, meditation, biofeedback, and natural health from Genesis School. Through Upaya LLC, I help connect a network of care providers in a compassionate exchange of skillful means. https://upayacollective.com

12/04/2025

Menthol Chest Balm

Ingredients:

Bees Wax – 40 grams
Menthol Crystals – 30 grams
Grape Seed Oil – 10 oz.
Eucalyptus Leaves – 3 oz.
Mint Leaves – 3 oz.
Rosemary – 3 oz.
Vitamin E – 1 Tsp

by Johanice De JesusStudent: CMH, MH & TND programs Have you ever looked at the ingredients in those store-bought menthol chest rubs? When you are congested, with cloudy eyes and you feel like your body is going to fall apart, it does not even cross your mind to read the ingredients, but I warn you,...

12/04/2025

Whether you’re building a new career in natural health or adding to your existing wellness practice, this program gives you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to guide others toward true healing — naturally. You’ll master a wide range of topics, including:

In-Depth Digestive Studies: Explore the digestive system from a holistic perspective, including the role of enzymes, the microbiome, gut-brain axis, and how digestive health influences overall well-being.

Nutritional Studies: Build a strong foundation in nutrition with a focus on bio-individuality, whole-food healing, and the connection between diet and disease.

Detoxification: Learn how the body’s natural detox pathways work and how to safely support them through herbs, nutrition, and lifestyle practices.

Mental Health & Herbs: Study the intricate relationship between the gut-brain axis, enteric nervous system, vagus nerve, HPA-axis, in mental health. Topics include anxiety, depression, stress resilience, and cognitive support, with a focus on nervines, adaptogens, and tonics.

Parasites: Delve into common human parasites, their symptoms, effects on systemic health, and natural protocols for addressing parasitic load.

Herbs & Physiology: Understand how herbal medicine interacts with human physiology. This module teaches organ system function, herbal actions, and how to select herbs that support specific body systems for restoration and balance.

Natural Medicine: In-depth protocols for treating common health conditions using nutritional therapies, herbal medicine, and lifestyle interventions.

Blood Chemistry Analysis: Read and interpret lab work through a holistic lens to guide your herbal protocols.

Client Case Studies: Apply everything you’ve learned in real-world scenarios that build clinical thinking and confidence.

Autoimmune, Adaptogens, Client Intake Assessments, Business Resources, and more!

Accredited online holistic health diploma programs include Holistic Health Professional, Traditional Dr. of Naturopathy, Clinical Master Herbalist, and more.

12/01/2025

Hawthorn is often referred to as “a superstar” when it comes to heart problems such as hypertension, angina, arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure. The herb improves oxygenation, therefore has an immediate impact on energy levels. Mark Stengler, The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies, states it best, “every cardiologist should be recommending this lifesaving heart tonic to patients”.

11/27/2025

11/17/2025

Researchers have warned that the modern reliance on CT scans in the United States could carry a measurable long term cancer burden at the population level.

A modeling study published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2025 examined detailed radiation dose data from the UCSF International CT Dose Registry, which collects anonymized information from 143 hospitals and imaging centers across the country.

Using real world dose distributions and scan types, the team estimated that roughly 93 million CT examinations were performed in 2023 on about 61.5 million patients.

By combining these figures with standard lifetime cancer risk models, they projected that these scans could lead to about 103,000 radiation induced cancers over the coming decades.

The study found that adults received the majority of CT scans, but children faced a higher cancer risk per scan because their tissues are more sensitive to ionizing radiation and they have more years ahead for radiation related cancers to develop.

Only about 4 percent of scans were in children, yet the model suggests those pediatric scans could still result in around 9,700 future cancers.

The largest number of projected cases came from scans of the abdomen and pelvis in adults, which accounted for about 37 percent of the estimated cancers and roughly one third of all CT exams.

Chest CT was the next largest contributor. Overall, the model indicates that if current scanning patterns persist, CT related cancers could eventually represent about 5 percent of all new cancer diagnoses in the United States each year.

It is important to stress that for any individual patient the additional risk from one medically justified CT scan appears to be small, and CT imaging can be life saving.

Randomized evidence from the National Lung Screening Trial, which enrolled 53,454 high risk participants, showed that periodic low dose CT scans reduced lung cancer mortality by about 20 percent compared with standard chest X rays.

This trial is one of the strongest demonstrations that CT based screening can save lives when targeted appropriately.

Medical physicists and radiology societies have also pointed out that the JAMA analysis uses theoretical risk models and that direct clinical studies have not yet demonstrated a clear increase in cancer at the relatively low doses typical of modern CT, especially below cumulative exposures of around 100 millisieverts.

10/27/2025