Cardiovascular effects of auricular stimulation – and auricular acupuncture
Readers may be aware that I’ve been using transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic, usually with heart rate variability monitoring. It can increase vagal...
Extreme Treatments Going Mainstream?
For athletes out there, or those of you who are interested in health and performance hacks, I’m sharing this article from the Wall Street Journal....
Hormesis/preconditioning mechanisms, the nervous system and aging
Organisms face various stressors throughout life, necessitating adaptive responses to prevent disease and death. Environmental factors like dietary restriction, exercise, and cognitive stimulation may enhance...
Effect of electroacupuncture at ST36 on the cerebral metabolic kinetics of rheumatoid arthritis rats
This animal study looks at the effects of acupuncture on Stomach 36 on brain metabolism in rheumatoid arthritis rats. The electroacupuncture improved the animals’ arthritic...
Phenylephrine No Better Than Placebo
FDA advisory panel’s declaration paves way for removal of dozens of medicines in the U.S. Your favorite cold medicine for a stuffy nose may...
Better Heart Rate Variability Leads to Better Emotional Control in Depressed Women
Background created by fractal geometryHeart Rate Variability is a fractal, complexity measure. Complexity=healthy This study is looking at the high emotion regulation difficulties in women...
Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Is adding preoperative acupuncture to standard pharmacological therapy effective for pain control in patients after cesarean delivery? Meghan Markel, Fan of Acupuncture! This study interests...
How Acupuncture Controls the Stress Response
Youtube video content In this episode we’re going to dive into the way acupuncture has an incredible ability to reduce the stress response. It’s a...
Electroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway
Youtube video content Click on photo or here for brief youtube explanation This study looks at mice in which chronic inflammatory pain has been induced...
Electroacupuncture alleviated depression-like behaviors in ventromedial prefrontal cortex of chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced rats: Increasing synaptic transmission and phosphorylating dopamine transporter.
Youtube video content We’re seeing a lot of these granular murine articles coming out of China and Hong Kong. It really is contributing so much...