The line is blurring. Ages ago it seemed that arthritis was simple. It was “a little rheumatism” or osteoarthritis. But as we journey down this path of progressive bone deterioration, the line between the two is getting a little muddled. It used to be you had one or another; today it’s common to have both. […]
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Adrenal Fatigue, aka adrenal insufficiency, are non-medical terms used to describe a condition where the adrenal glands do not appear to be functioning up to par, but they are not in “failure” as yet. The adrenal insufficiency symptoms have a few common denominators: fatigue is the main one. But this fatigue makes it difficult to
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If you’re ready to call it quits when it comes to smoking (or any other addiction for that matter), consider acupuncture. When other methods used fail, many people turn to acupuncture. Increasingly, acupuncture has become the first approach chosen, as more people desire a non-drug, non-chemical approach to quitting. In some states, acupuncture is a
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Back pain is one of the most common health conditions. It has been reported that 80% of the population will experience back pain some time in their life. Until fairly recently, it was the number one reason why people sought acupuncture treatments for relief (now the majority of people seeking acupuncture recognize its benefits in
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), which include Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, Diverticulitis, Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Celiac, etc. are on the increase. These sometimes debilitating diseases become a significant mental, physical and financial drain. They become mentally consumptive – awareness of where the next bathroom is, sensitivity to what they put in their
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The body needs certain nutrients on an ongoing basis to live and grow. They build, strengthen and repair tissues, regulate all bodily processes, support proper temperature mechanisms, give energy, and in short, sustain life. Every day of your life cells are dying. All cells have a programmed timed death. The body must make new cells
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Vitamins are such a controversial subject today. More and more news reports are stating that vitamin supplements aren’t all that we thought they were. They say that they harm us. Yet most Americans will admit they have benefitted from taking supplements. As a result they ignore the warnings. But is there validity in them? Why
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I remember a couple of decades ago, it seemed only overweight women had thyroid disease. Boy has that changed! It is estimated that 1 in 13 (or 20 million people in the US) have thyroid disease and another 1 in 20 (13 million) are undiagnosed. That’s staggering! In 1924 we started putting iodine into our
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Sugar has become so much a part of our diets that we are unaware of all the places that it lurks. Because sugar has so many different names, we don’t really realize how much we consume. Generally, when we think of sugar, we think of the overt sugars – candy, cake, cookies, ice cream, sodas,
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Sometimes we feel like our stress is unrelenting. Like we will be dealing with stress for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, to a degree that’s true. We will, more than likely, always have stress in our lives. But how we deal with the stress, or how our body deals with the stress is what
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