Do you know what your NSAIDs are doing?
We knew that OTC pain relievers can cause long-term liver and kidney damage, stomach and intestinal injury, but what you may not know is that they can cause damage to, or at the very least, repair inhibition of joint cartilage. With pain-fighting alternatives, you can do right by your body. Acupuncture has been shown to not
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The Sleep Bias
Women are more likely to have sleep problems than men. Their unique biological conditions (menopause, perimenopause, and menstrual cycles) and a greater likelihood to experience depression and anxiety affect how they sleep. A recent study in 2020 showed that Chinese herbs like Korean Ginseng significantly improve drug-treated depression. Chinese herbs have been used for centuries to treat anxiety and insomnia but now,
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Equinox is the time of the year when the sun crosses the airplane of the earth’s equator. Long gone are the days filled with more darkness than light. This is the minute we’ve been waiting on given that winter solstice; the darkest day of the year. Our days are formally the exact same size as
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Your Energy is the Key
When I started exploring energy recovery many years back, I was a cynical journalist. I invested 5 years delving into the secrets of refined power for my very first book. What I discovered altered my life. I eventually went from composing for The New york city Times as well as The Wall Street Journal to
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The procedure of finding an expert who fits your needs, clicks with your individuality, is also skilled and also a pro in the location of knowledge you are seeking to concentrate on can be challenging to claim the least. Nevertheless, we are here to assist make it less complicated! Whether you are seeking an acupuncturist
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Energy Medicine 101: Defining Key Terms
I thought it might be helpful to gather together some commonly used words when speaking about Energy and Energy medicine and lay out some broad definitions and meanings. QI/ENERGY Possibly not surprisingly, “Qi” as well as “Energy” are pointed out more than a hundred times throughout the book. Chinese ideology assumes that a vital force,
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The Meditative Effects of Acupuncture
Mindfulness continues to grow with many teams throughout the bay as well as countless apps developed for download. This quest for tranquility is much needed in a busy city of busy, high-functioning Bay Area Techies. For most of my people that experience stress and anxiety and stress and anxiety, among the major concerns I ask
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When Does the Healing Process Begin?
If I were to ask you when you believed the recovery process started, how would you respond? It’s challenging to identify, isn’t it? Does it start when you walk in? Possibly it begins when you’re laying on the table? Or maybe it kicks in as soon as you leave your treatment?. I believe the factor
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Studies on the Efficacy of Acupuncture
FERTILITY IVF Good clinical research has demonstrated the effectiveness of acupuncture used in conjunction with IVF demonstrating around a 50% increase in success rate with acupuncture vs. without. Acupuncture works to increase success rates of these interventions by increasing blood flow to the ovaries during the stimulation phase of IVF and by improving the effectiveness of
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