Kye Peven, ND, DSOM, LAC
Naturopathic Physician
1417 NW 54th St Ste 312 Seattle WA, 98107-3573About
Dr. Kye focuses on treating the entire person and not simply managing symptoms. He has confidence in the healing power of nature and believes people have an innate ability to move towards health. He sees his role as helping to guide people along this journey, and to this end he primarily uses gentle, minimally invasive techniques to stimulate the body’s self-healing potential. Utilizing diet, lifestyle changes, herbal medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, and more, Dr. Kye is committed to serving his patients in the creation of long-lasting wellbeing.
Education and Training
NUNM ND 2017
Board Certification
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
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Kye Peven, ND, DSOM, LAC's Expert Contributions
The Four Earth Organs of Chinese Medicine
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The Anatomy of Acupuncture Channels
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Which Type of Insomnia Do You Have? Part 3
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Which Type of Insomnia Do You Have? Part 2
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Which Type of Insomnia Do You Have? Part 1
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Nutrients – Part 4 – Vitamin C
Vitamin C, the most popular nutrient! Somehow everybody knows that you take vitamin C when you get a cold, or feel that flu coming on. For centuries people understood that something in fresh fruits and vegetables – especially citrus fruits –prevented scurvy, a debilitating disease that often...
Nutrients – Part 3 – Fat Soluble Vitamins
Overview– The group of fat-soluble vitamins consists of vitamins A, D, E, K1, and K2.– They are critical for proper immune and nervous system function.– They represent elements of ying-nutritive qi and wei-defensive qi function in Chinese physiology and the connection of these...
Nutrients – Part 2 – B Vitamins
Overview– B vitamins are necessary for energy metabolism and creating the essential building blocks of the physical body.– They represent an aspect of Spleen and Stomach qi in Chinese Medicine, as well as connecting to the creation of Blood and jing/essence.– Though serious deficiencies are...
Nutrients – Part 1 – An Overview
This is the introduction to a new blog series examining the qualities of essential nutrients from both a Western and Chinese Medicine perspective.The field of nutrition is an area of medicine that will benefit tremendously from combining the wisdom of Chinese Medicine and the science of modern...
Understanding Digestion – The Microbiome
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The Six Conformations – Part 2
One thing about the biomedical correspondences is that each major system in the body has every conformation represented in it. The nervous system, the immune system, the endocrine system, all of these important homeostatic systems are interwoven with the six conformations. Each conformation has a...
The Six Conformations – Part 1
Chinese Medicine has a number of models of human functioning and physiology. One major system is known as the six conformations, also known as the six stages, or the six divisions. I find this system to be both fascinating and extraordinarily useful in understanding the human being. What follows is...
Causality in Complex Systems
What came first, the chicken or the egg? This is a common thought experiment and an actual scientific question that represents a paradox of causality. To a casual observer, this question has no resolution, since all chickens come from eggs, and all (chicken) eggs come from chickens. It seems to be a...
Side Effects - An Unwanted Result
Most people know what side effects are in terms of medication. They are the results of something a person does, or of a medication that a person takes, or perhaps a decision a person makes; and these results are either unnecessary, or unwanted, or sometimes even counter to the effect the person was...
An Integrated Look at the Thyroid
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Premenstrual Syndrome - It Is Not Necessary
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How to Eat to Support Poor Digestion
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Using the Pulse in Medicine
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Be A Patient, Patient
Have you ever wondered why the word patient is both a noun and an adjective? The dictionary defines patient as:...
The 5 Rules of Diet
There is so much knowledge about diet and nutrition these days that it’s difficult to know how to eat well. Famous diets are created and marketed as the ultimate way to eat, only to be left aside and forgotten within a few years. Nutritionists offer advice based on scientific studies, but then the...
What is Health?
For many people, health is simply a lack of disease. This has been the definition in the wider medical community for a long time, though it is starting to shift as health professionals begin to embrace a broader definition of health. In conventional medicine, the issue of health is only briefly...
The Link of Parkinson’s and the Gut
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Sunshine and Vitamin D
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Can I consume ayurvedic medicines to sleep better?
Broadly speaking, yes, ayurvedic medicines could potentially help with sleep. The trick will be identifying exactly why you are having trouble sleeping and which precise medicines will be helpful. Not all insomnia or disturbed sleep is for the same reason, and thus a generic sleep formula may or may not be helpful. READ MORE
What are the best herbal medicine herbs?
The best herbal medicine is the one that is right for you. Without knowing more about an individual person it is impossible to recommend specific herbs. It's almost like asking what the best animals are. It depends on the situation. READ MORE
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- Integrative Health Focused
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