Calm 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 More80% of Covid Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient
This study is probably suspect, but on the other hand, Vitamin D is cheap and safe if you don’t overdo it. So maybe take time to replenish your supplies and take it! A new study that looked at 216 people with COVID-19 found that 80 percent didn’t have adequate levels of vitamin D in their…
Read MoreDeep Resilience: Chapter Stress Matters
I’ve “completed” another chapter in my long form writing project called “Stress Matters.” As blog readers know, I’ve been researching stress and monitoring autonomic nervous system activity in the clinic for many years. This chapter is still in a rough form, but I wanted to have some sense of completion so I can move on…
Read MoreStress and Tinnitus; Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation Attenuates Tinnitus-Triggered Stress Reaction
Study from Helsinki on 171 patients. (Impressive! Especially given Finland’s small size.) It has a measure I’ve never seen before. ie. “HRV age”. Apparently the TAVNS decreased the patients’ HRV age by 9 years. Full article here. Front Psychol . 2020 Sep 17;11:570196. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.570196. eCollection 2020. Stress and Tinnitus; Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation…
Read MoreIs Acupuncture Effective for Knee Pain or Knee Arthritis?
Is Acupuncture effective for knee pain or knee arthritis? Knee pain is one of the most common ailments I treat in my clinic. Acupuncture can be incredibly helpful for knee pain, sometimes curing it all together even if the pain is from a sprain or ligament problem. What is the theory behind Acupuncture & Knee Pain?…
Read MoreSciatica Pain Shouldn’t Rule Your Life. Acupuncture Can Help.
I can’t see a better solution to long-term chronic pain. There is no question in my mind that acupuncture is safer than surgery or drugs. -Dr. Bruce Pomeranz, Neurosurgeon, University of Toronto Do you have Sciatica? You are not alone… Sciatica is a common ailment I see in my clinic, I know how frustrating it can…
Read MoreFind Relief from Chronic Back Pain through Acupuncture
Do you have Back Pain? You are not alone… This from the U.S. National Institutes of Health: Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment in the United…
Read MoreNon-Surgical Facial Rejuvenation with Acupuncture
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Good Looks Get a brighter, sleeker you – without the drastic changes of plastic surgery and injections – in my San Francisco acupuncture clinic. There was a segment on the Dr. Oz show about this procedure. Where did Facial Rejuvenation come from? Facial Rejuvenation has a rich history in Chinese Medicine. Strategies for fighting…
Read MoreAsthma Sufferers: Try Acupuncture for a Breath of Relief
The effects can be long-lasting. Do you suffer from asthma? You might want to give my treatments a try. I use a number of time-honored points and then some culled from the various studies that have been completed over the years to get maximum results. And the results can be quite impressive, as you see…
Read MoreAchieving Longevity and Anti Aging with Acupuncture
Reduce Your Stress, Live Long In Chinese medicine enhanced longevity is seen as a goal of therapy and within the purview of practitioners. There are herbal treatments (see facial rejuvenation section), lifestyle suggestions, and acupuncture prescriptions to benefit the “anti-aging” agenda which is part and parcel of acupuncture treatment. Feel better, look better In China,…
Read MoreAcupuncture Might Be the Unexpected Solution to Your Bowel Problems
Did you know that the gut is sometimes called “the backup brain”? With an astonishing 100 million neurons – more than in the spinal cord, arrayed over an intricately folded surface area more than a hundred times greater than that of your skin. But the enteric nervous system, ENS, the newest mind-body connection to be…
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