Coming from a conventional medical background working as a nurse generally in the Intensive Care Unit or the Emergency Room, the switch to Acupuncture school was quite the culture shock! I went to Acupuncture school never having had traditional acupuncture before. My decisions to re-direct my career are numerous, but not in the context of […]
Every spring hundreds of thousands of people suffer when the pollen starts to fly. Over-the-counter sales of allergy medications are whisked off the shelves and doctors are pummeled with requests for stronger prescription meds. Articles on controlling allergies abound, but they’re all about minimizing exposure, not about how to resolve them. What if there was
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Not surprisingly, food addictions are in the top 5 of addictions and addictive behaviors. Why is food so addicting? There are many theories, mostly having nothing to do with willpower. One theory discusses the sensations of the tongue and how that affects the brain. We are all familiar with the old “sweet, sour, bitter, and
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Most people when they think of acupuncture think of it as relieving pain or for its ability to control addictions. When I first graduated from acupuncture school, there weren’t many studies done on the effectiveness of acupuncture for pain, addictions or the myriad other things that acupuncture is effective for – at least not in
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Many people are fatigued. They’re sick and tired of being sick and tired and need help. There is a fix to your fatigue, but first, we need to identify where it comes from. Many organs are involved in the mechanisms responsible for feeling vital health! We all want lots of energy. We want to go
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (aka: Lupus or SLE), is an autoimmune disease that effects the body as a whole. It is a connective tissue/inflammatory disorder that can harm multiple systems such as the joints, muscles, digestion, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, skin, blood vessels, and nervous system. It is a condition of hyper-reactivity to something by the
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Being healthy means being energetic, alive, and a sparkle in our eyes. It is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. When we think of restoring health, we have to think back to what we used to feel like. Then, want it so bad
Note: This article was written back in 2009, long before the current situation. However, it still contains a lot of great tips for supporting your immune system. As threats of devastating diseases of epidemic or pandemic proportions swirl around us, our natural protective instincts kick in. We question “If we were to have an outbreak
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Male Menopause, more correctly called “Andropause” is on the rise. Also referred to as grumpy old man syndrome, hypogonadism, irritable male syndrome and hypotestosteronism, andropause effects about 30% of healthy men before the age of 50 and 50% of healthy men greater than 60 years old. Beginning around 30 years of age, male testosterone levels
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Most people want to be well and stay well. But getting well is more than taking a medication to suppress a symptom. It is a state of wellbeing, of having the energy to do the fun things in life, and of not being restricted by health challenges. To be well is to be free of
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