Needleless Transcutaneous Acupuncture Gives Good Results for Constipation in Animal Studies
A related article came up on my feed and I found this older article while researching. Both Electroacupuncture and transcutaneous stimulation without needles improved transit times and parasympathetic activity. I’m surprised at this, but, I suppose I shouldn’t be. I’m surprised because I do think that acupuncture needle acupuncture is a more effective treatment than…
Read MoreDeep Resilience: Immunology
This is the rough draft of this of this very special chapter on Immunology chapter for sharing v.2 1.31.22 I’m submitting it here so that I can move onto the next chapter on Inflammation. It needs more tightening, but I think with a bit of distance I will have an easier time with it. It…
Read MoreNegative affect moderates the effect of respiratory gated vagal nerve stimulation on pain severity in patients with chronic low back pain
The Journal of Pain Volume 22, Issue 5, May 2021, Page 587 Negative affect moderates the effect of respiratory gated vagal nerve stimulation on pain severity in patients with chronic low back pain Author links open overlay panelSamanthaMeintsRobertEdwardsMichaelDatkoRonaldGarciaGaelleDesbordesZevSchuman-OlivierMariseCorneliusVitalyNapadow Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is the leading cause of disability in the United States. There…
Read MoreAcupuncture attenuates Common Cold
Submitted for consideration. A manual acupuncture treatment attenuates common cold and its symptoms: a case series report from South Korea Je-Sin Heo,a Su-Young Yang,a Sung-Ah Lim,b Jong-Moo Lee,a Ji-Young Kang,c Seung-Ho Sun,d Hyeong-Geug Kim,c Weechang Kang,e and Jung-Hyo Choc,* Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer Go to: Abstract OBJECTIVE To investigate beneficial effects of manual acupuncture on common cold periods and its symptoms depended…
Read MoreFish Oil to Help Combat Superbugs
New Defense Against Bacterial Superbugs: Taking Fish Oil May Reduce Antibiotic Resistance
Read MoreSan Francisco Versus Los Angeles Covid Cases
Los Angeles COVID death rate is below S.F.’s right now. Here’s what that means Throughout most of the pandemic, San Francisco and the Bay Area managed to contain the spread of the virus to a far greater degree than Los Angeles County — especially during the winter surge, when Southern California became the nation’s…
Read MoreImmune and genetic aspects of asthma, allergy and parasitic worm infections: evolutionary links
This paper is over 10 years old, but it still has a lot to say. I have yet to buy the pdf of the full paper. But it is a concise description of the concept of “old friends.” When a person has immunity to “old friends” such as Ascaris and Schistomona evolutionarily developed over millenia…
Read MoreAcupuncture promotes mTOR-independent autophagic clearance of aggregation-prone proteins in mouse brain
In the chapter of my book project “Deep Resilience” on Longevity-Chapter-for-blog-8.4.2020, the concept of autophagy and mTOR are laid out. Autophagy (the clearing of cells and their debris) is also important in Neurodegenerative Disease, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s . This study is not new, having been completed in 2015, and perhaps there are…
Read MoreSystems Medicine 2020 Uri Alon
I am stashing this link and series of links here since systems biology is very much a part of acupuncture and its results. Small input of needling can lead to outsized results a consequence of the cascades set in motion. I’m working on the Immunology Chapter of my book “Deep Resilience” and I will need…
Read MoreStarvation, Stress Resistance, and Cancer: Valter Longo
Hunger and stress resistance. Fasting can increase resilience. Trends Endocrinol Metab . 2018 Apr;29(4):271-280. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.01.008. Epub 2018 Feb 17. Starvation, Stress Resistance, and Cancer Roberta Buono 1 , Valter D Longo 2 Affiliations PMID: 29463451 DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.01.008 Abstract Cancer cells are characterized by dysregulation in signal transduction and metabolic pathways leading to increased glucose uptake,…
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