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 MoreOpiates No Good For Back and Neck Pain
Opiates No Good For Back and Neck PainDo No Harm!!! New study from the Lancet shows that opiates are no better than placebo for low back and neck pain. My patients know that I’ve never understood the reliance on opioids for these problems since the risk is high and they do nothing to address the…
Read MoreMast Cells and Acupuncture Analgesia
I recently saw a lecture on this topic at the SAR meeting in NYC. I’d been aware of the significance of mast cells previously, but nice to have this reference. Li Y, Yu Y, Liu Y, Yao W. Mast Cells and Acupuncture Analgesia. Cells. 2022 Mar 2;11(5):860. doi: 10.3390/cells11050860. PMID: 35269483; PMCID: PMC8909752. Mast cells…
Read MoreTranscutaneous vagus nerve stimulation ameliorates cardiac abnormalities in chronically stressed rats
I’m unclear on the actual protocol in this study. I don’t know what alternate therapy means. They developed an animal model for chronic stress (always awful to contemplate) and then evaluated their cardiac markers and behavior. After two weeks of TVNS their markers and behavior improved. We saw a recent article on TaVNS and heart…
Read MoreThey Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.
The perverse incentives that arise in our medical system can have horrible consequences. First do no harm. Or another hazard, Science Says No, Doctor Says Yes.As the article says. But more than a decade of medical research has shown that the vast majority of people with peripheral artery disease have mild or no symptoms and…
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 MoreAcupuncture May Help to Prevent Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Keep in mind, any therapy that can allow an increase in the amount of chemotherapy given can be crucial in providing for increased dosages of chemotherapy, allowing, potentially for a better result in treatment. For Practitioners, the points used were (0.30 mm × 40 mm, Yuguang, Taiwan) to the depth predetermined for each point (between…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Anti-Inflammation through the Autonomic Nervous System
This has been my area of interest and research for years. I don’t have access to the full article, but this jumped out at me, “In maintaining the coordination and unity of human physiological activities, it is in line with the holistic view and bidirectional regulation of acupuncture, and fits in with the meridian theory…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture encourages homeostasis in Irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis
In my book, Radical Resilience, I make the case that one of the many ways acupuncture “works” is that it nudges the system to fix itself, to regain balance and homeostasis. This article, reviewed by the folks at the British Medical Acupuncture Society blog, looks at how acupuncture changes the actual gene expression in two…
Read MoreEffects of TAVNS on cognitive and autonomic correlates of perseverative cognition.
This study out of Belgium compares verum versus sham TAVNS in patients with perseverative cognition. In these patients they can have psychophysiological stress with no provoking stressor. It is thought that cognitive inflexibility is related to autonomic inflexibility as measured by HRV. In this study, the verum group showed less cognitive perseveration after the TAVNS…
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