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 MoreAcupuncture at Acupuncture GB44 Modulates Regional Brain Activity in Migraine Without Aura: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
This is the kind of research I love to see. It’s specific, looking at a single acupuncture point. It has a sham control group (not optimal using non-acupuncture points, but still). It is using a biomarker of brain activity. Plus the research is in actual human patients. Yay for this study. I pulished a study on…
Read MoreCreepy ticks, alpha gal, Meat Allergy and Acupuncture
I had never heard of this problem with tick bites until this summer. There is a condition called Alphagal that occurs after a tick bite in humans, where they are extremely sensitive to meat and meat biproducts. It turns out meat biproducts are in a LOT of things. It is spread by the “lone star…
Read MoreShocking Failure of a New Promising Drug for Heart Disease
In a trial of more than 6,300 patients, ziltivekimab sharply lowered markers of inflammation but did no better than placebo at preventing cardiovascular complications or deaths. The result raises questions about treating inflammation in established heart disease, though it does not disprove inflammation’s role. Two further trials are underway. As you can see from the…
Read More7 Longevity Habits that are FREE!
This is from Super Age, a blog dedicated to longevity. These tips are not really longevity science per se, but good to keep in mind. Some are easier than others, but here is the list. It cracks me up that the opening scene is someone sipping tea in a tropical paradise. That is probably not…
Read MoreThe French Pharmacy Secret to Younger-Looking Skin Isn’t a Miracle Serum
I visited one of Paris’s most famous French pharmacies expecting to find the latest miracle anti-aging skincare products. VIDEO HERE Instead, I discovered something far more interesting. The French have an approach similar to Dr. One in my book. First Do No Harm (sunblock of the best, most advanced kind) and working with your body’s…
Read MoreTAVNS Devices Enter a Powerful New Era—but One Critical Question Remains
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a noninvasive neuromodulation technique that stimulates branches of the vagus nerve through the ear. Over its relatively short 20-year history, taVNS has shown promise across a remarkably broad range of conditions, including epilepsy, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, anxiety, stroke rehabilitation, cognitive impairment, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, tinnitus, and…
Read MoreAcupuncture Affecting Skeletal interoception regulates joint homeostasis and PGE2-induced pain
What’s New in Acupuncture and Pain: Your Skeleton May Be a Sensory Relay Interoception is the body’s ability to sense what is happening inside itself. Signals continuously travel between the brain and peripheral organs, helping regulate heart rate, breathing, digestion, temperature, and other functions needed for physiological balance. What’s new in this article is the…
Read MoreBone Loss: What NASA Discovered to Decrease It? Not Supplements
The Best Exercise to Counter Bone Loss—Plus Easier Options That Still Help from Brad Stanfield Astronauts can get 1–2% bone loss for every month they spend in space—roughly what many postmenopausal women lose over an entire year. NASA tried treadmill workouts, cycling, calcium and vitamin D. But bone loss continued. What finally made a substantial…
Read MoreBenefits of Movement Breaks While Sitting
I had been hearing a lot of chatter about short movement breaks on the radio and similar. This may be the article that triggered the coverage of the topic. We’ve covered the downsides of sitting here. and here Zhuang, M., Yin, M., Liu, Z. et al. Acute cognitive effects of interruptions to prolonged sitting with…
Read MoreCT Scans. Rethinking the Risk
Recent studies throw into question the risk/benefit ratio of CT scans. Some are more risky than others in terms of cancer incidence. We’ve discussed this on the blog a few times, here, here and here. The last link is to my book where I tell the story of a patient who had an unnecessary CT…
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