Control Your Stress With Acupuncture to Rest, Restore and Live Long: Video
topic of stress and why controlling it is crucial for your well-being and how to do that. Click on my photo for a brief videoGreetings! And welcome to my channel and blog! Where ancient medicine is made modern. Today we’ll dive into the topic of stress and why controlling it is crucial for your well-being…
Read More5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You Live a Longer, Stronger and Happier Life
Please click here or on my photo for a brief video on how Acupuncture can improve your health, life span and mood! Welcome to my website and blog where ancient medicine is made modern. In this brief blog post I will outline 5 ways that acupuncture can help you live a stronger, longer and happier…
Read MoreCalm Your Anxiety and Live Your Best Life with Acupuncture
Acupuncture works with your body so that you feel better and live longer naturally. When I first opened my practice in 1998, one of my first patients was a young mother with anxiety and panic attacks when driving, especially when crossing bridges. Her heart would beat rapidly, she’d get sick to her stomach, and have to…
Read MoreInsomnia: Acupuncture Modulates α7-nAChR Sleep Circuits
My book actually discussed the α7-nAChR receptor and why it is important. It’s a receptor that explains how different tissues act and react with the vagus nerve. These receptors are nerves, but also mast cells. Insomnia is helped by increased vagal activity, and in this animal study they showed the brain reaction. They used commonly…
Read MoreEar Seeds for Acupressure Now Trending and Trendy
I’ve been using ear needles/tacks in the clinic for decades and rarely, ear seeds. But if ear seeds are taking off, I’m all for it! I did a YouTube video on ear tacks here. From the NYTimes Perhaps you have heard ear seeds mentioned in the same breath as famous names like Lisa, the actress…
Read MoreJanuary 2025 Newsletter Extreme Anti-Aging Biohacking and Andrew Huberman on Electroacupuncture
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Read MoreHow Many Steps do You Really Need?
Getting 10,000 steps in every day can be challenging, and a new study suggests 7,000 steps can reduce the risk of developing common but serious health conditions. Photograph by Martin Edstrom, Nat Geo Image Collection ByMeryl Davids Landau July 23, 2025 If you’ve been told that walking 10,000 steps a day is mandatory for…
Read MoreTop 11 Longevity Insights of 2025
The Top 11 Longevity Insights of 2025 As my readers know, some of the suggestions below, I do not advocate. Too much testing, too many unproven interventions. First Do No Harm, and stay with hormesis. Some I object to on different grounds. Ie, too vague, too blamey. (Am I the first to coin that…
Read MorePerceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing
In this small study, the correlation between perceived age and the likelihood of survival is confirmed. I welcome studies that encourage a bit of vanity as we age, I’m of the opinion that some pride in appearance is healthy in older people. Other posts on longevity here, anti-aging here. Christensen K, Thinggaard M, McGue M,…
Read MoreMedications Linked to Disrupted Microbiome even years after use
Antibiotics and 6 Other Medications Linked to Disrupted Gut Microbiome This article can be filed under “something to keep in mind.” It was a difficult study to do since the microbiome can be affected by so many things. But most pertinent to patients I see was this finding. We’ve talked about the microbiome here and…
Read MoreBrain TRPV1 channel-mediated calcium influx: the immunomodulatory pathway of acupuncture in neuroinflammation
This kind of research is essential for mapping out what the mechanism might be in acupuncture’s effectiveness against neuroinflammatory disease such as Alzgeimer’s and Depression. If you read my book, Radical Resilience, you might remember, that Depression is now recognized to have aspects of inflammation that are exacerbated by stress or autonomic imbalance. Recent blog…
Read MoreInflammation-Associated Co-morbidity Between Depression and Cardiovascular Disease.
Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2017;31:45-70. doi: 10.1007/7854_2016_28. Inflammation-Associated Co-morbidity Between Depression and Cardiovascular Disease. Halaris A1. Author information 1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago and Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA. ahalaris@lumc.edu. Abstract Morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is…
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