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Control Your Stress With Acupuncture to Rest, Restore and Live Long: Video

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5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You Live a Longer, Stronger and Happier Life

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Calm Your Anxiety and Live Your Best Life with Acupuncture

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Calm Your Anxiety and Live Your Best Life with Acupuncture

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Phenylephrine No Better Than Placebo

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Better Heart Rate Variability Leads to Better Emotional Control in Depressed Women

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Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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How Acupuncture Controls the Stress Response

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Acupuncture in the News: Good for Allergies, IBS and more

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Electroacupuncture alleviated depression-like behaviors in ventromedial prefrontal cortex of chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced rats: Increasing synaptic transmission and phosphorylating dopamine transporter.

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Electroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway

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Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Update of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

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Acupoint Catgut Embedding Diminishes Fibromyalgia Pain through TRPV1 in the Mouse Brain

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The Power of the First Doctor video

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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…

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5 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…

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Conditions & Treatment

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…

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Ethics in Medicine

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 soon be unavailable. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration declared Tuesday that an ingredient in widely used oral decongestants doesn’t work, setting the stage for dozens of products…

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Better Heart Rate Variability Leads to Better Emotional Control in Depressed Women

This study is looking at the high emotion regulation difficulties in women with depression.   What they found was that higher (healthier HRV, higher vagal tone) lead to better emotional control and less severe depressive symptoms.  Lower HRV has even been associated with cognitive decline.The explanation si that there is increased cognitive flexibility in patients with…

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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?This study interests me for a couple of reasons. Post op pain is common.  It is also very common to receive opiates after surgeries.  Anything to decrease pain post op is to be investigated. Usichenko is a researcher I…

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How Acupuncture Controls the Stress Response

In this episode we’re going to dive into the way acupuncture has an incredible ability to reduce the stress response. It’s a game-changer for your health and well-being. Please click on my photo for a related video! I have a personal story to share with you. I had to step away from traditional medical practice…

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Acupuncture in the News: Good for Allergies, IBS and more

Acupuncture has been used as a way to relieve pain for 3,000 to 5,000 years, but that’s not it’s only purpose, according to a Wisconsin acupuncturist. “We can really treat anything Western medicine treats, with some things it’s more efficient to use Western medicine and with other things it’s more efficient to use Eastern medicine,”…

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Electroacupuncture alleviated depression-like behaviors in ventromedial prefrontal cortex of chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced rats: Increasing synaptic transmission and phosphorylating dopamine transporter.

We’re seeing a lot of these granular murine articles coming out of  China and Hong Kong.  It really is contributing so much to not only the acupuncture knowledge base, but brain and longevity science in general.  All of these studies will need to be duplicated, but still. Please click here on my photo for a…

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Electroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway

Click on photo or here for brief youtube explanation This study looks at mice in which chronic inflammatory pain has been induced experimentally.  With this inflammation, changes in the hippocampus, the seat of memory. Instituting Electroacupuncture at LI4 and Li3 (a common point combination for pain) not only reversed the changes in the hippocampus but…

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Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Update of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

Researchers analyzed various studies to understand what the proof for acupuncture’s effectiveness for chronic pain really was. . They studied four chronic pain types: musculoskeletal pain, osteoarthritis, chronic headaches, and shoulder pain. Researchers examined studies up to 2015, comparing real acupuncture to sham or no treatment. They used data from 39 trials (20,827 patients) and…

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Acupoint Catgut Embedding Diminishes Fibromyalgia Pain through TRPV1 in the Mouse Brain

In this research study, the authors used a cold invoked fibromyalgia model in mice.  They determined that acupuncture catgut embedding lead to less pain as measured by clinical response in addition to lower inflammatory markers in the brain facilitated by the TRPV1 receptor.  They knew that the TRPV1 receptor was key because when the experiment…

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The Power of the First Doctor video

In the bygone world where ancient Chinese practice was the mainstream of the day, fostering deep energetic balance in body and mind was believed to lead to robust resilience and resistance to disease and harm. This ancient practice sought to achieve not just longevity but also inner stability and prevention through a tough constitution. Today,…

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