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Effect of electroacupuncture at ST36 on the cerebral metabolic kinetics of rheumatoid arthritis rats

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Hormesis/preconditioning mechanisms, the nervous system and aging

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Extreme Treatments Going Mainstream?

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Cardiovascular effects of auricular stimulation – and auricular acupuncture

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Hormesis and Anti-Aging

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Visualization, Vagus Nerve and Spirals

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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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Nobel Prize Goes to Tenacious, Hero for MRNA Covid Vaccine

Incredible and inspiring story of this talented and indomitable scientist.  I told her story here. She worked in a borrowed lab, for little pay but was determined the mrna held potential for cloning. She has now won the Nobel Prize!!  What a story!  So fantastic.  Well deserved and bravo!!!  

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Effect of electroacupuncture at ST36 on the cerebral metabolic kinetics of rheumatoid arthritis rats

This animal study looks at the effects of acupuncture on Stomach 36 on brain metabolism in rheumatoid arthritis rats.  The electroacupuncture improved the animals’ arthritic symptoms, but also altered their brain metabolic markers especially in the PAG, and hippocampus. Liang F, Du L, Rao X, Li Y, Long W, Tian J, Zhu X, Zou A,…

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Hormesis/preconditioning mechanisms, the nervous system and aging

Organisms face various stressors throughout life, necessitating adaptive responses to prevent disease and death. Environmental factors like dietary restriction, exercise, and cognitive stimulation may enhance health and longevity through a hormesis-like mechanism. This article delves into the hormesis hypothesis for disease resistance and longevity, emphasizing nervous system studies. Arumugam TV, Gleichmann M, Tang SC, Mattson…

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Extreme Treatments Going Mainstream?

For athletes out there, or those of you who are interested in health and performance hacks, I’m sharing this article from the Wall Street Journal. It covers cold therapy (gloves to lower temperature), infrared light, magnet chairs… I think the cold gloves are probably safe, but I would wait for others to try the infrared…

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Cardiovascular effects of auricular stimulation – and auricular acupuncture

Readers may be aware that I’ve been using transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic, usually with heart rate variability monitoring.  It can increase vagal “rest-and-digest” activity, lowering anxiety, blood pressure and anxiety and improving mood.  It’s also been studied for cardiac effects. The number of studies on auricular stimulation (AS) techniques, including transauricular vagus…

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Hormesis and Anti-Aging

This is a fantastic summary of how hormesis help us  throw off “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” Single or multiple exposure to low doses of otherwise harmful agents, such as irradiation, food limitation, heat stress, hypergravity, reactive oxygen species and other free radicals have a variety of anti-aging and longevity-extending hormetic effects. “Although…

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Visualization, Vagus Nerve and Spirals

This video makes the parallel between the brain science behind visualization, and how we think about acupuncture can help or hurt out results. Spirals are everywhere in nature.  Our bodies incorporate spirals also in all of our feedback loops, which is one of the prime ways that acupuncture works. I have been interested in visualization…

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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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