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Cancer Prevention and Nutrition: Five Key Health Tips

Cancer Prevention and Nutrition: Finding the Truth about Foods When it comes to cancer prevention and nutrition, don’t believe everything you hear. It’s easy to get lost in the woods of food advertising. Dozens of companies are vying for your attention, convincing you of the health benefits of the latest “superfood” product they sell. Cancer prevention and nutrition is not

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture for Cancer Support

Acupuncture for Cancer Support: Before, During and After Acupuncture for cancer support is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance and recognition amongst both oncologists and patients. More than 60% of leading cancer treatment centers in the U.S. incorporate acupuncture for cancer support as part of comprehensive treatment. During the course of medical treatment, acupuncture for cancer support is effective for managing a

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Acupuncture

Healing Thyroid Disorders: Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Thyroid (Part III)

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Thyroid Health Using acupuncture and Chinese medicine for thyroid disorders is not a new idea. Although lab tests of thyroid function only go back a few decades, traditional Chinese physicians understood the signs and symptoms that we now know can be caused by thyroid disorders. For centuries, they used acupuncture and Chinese medicine for thyroid

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Acupuncture

Will Power: the Water Element in Five Element Acupuncture

The Will and Its Power: What the Water Element in Five Element Acupuncture Can Teach Us Most of us think of will power as something desirable. It’s a positive character attribute that we both admire in others and seek to strengthen in ourselves.  Will power gives us the determination to stick with our goals. But what is the will, and how

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Food & Recipes

Healing Thyroid Disorders: Four Key Nutrients for Thyroid Health (Part II)

Thyroid Health & Nutrition Part I of this article on healing thyroid disorders covered the basics of thyroid health and thyroid disorders.  It explained why autoimmune dysfunction is often a root cause of thyroid disorders.  And, it discussed how thyroid disorders can be prevented, and why nutrition, lifestyle and stress have such an impact on thyroid health.  Part II will

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Acupuncture

Healing Thyroid Disorders: Nutrition and Wellness (Part I)

Understanding Thyroid Disorders The thyroid gland is a key part of the endocrine system, the network of glands that regulate the body’s hormones. Thyroid disorders are common, especially among women, and dangerous to long-term health. A poorly functioning thyroid can put the person at risk for other, serious health conditions, such as infertility and cardiovascular disease. Thyroid disorders are chronic,

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Acupuncture

The Antidote to Sadness: Understanding Grief in Five Element Acupuncture, Part II

Understanding Grief in Five Element Acupuncture Part I of this article explained how the ancient Chinese view of grief in Five Element acupuncture is different from the way grief is viewed in modern-day society. It discussed why that alternative view can help us better navigate the process of grief, and how we can create a vocabulary of grieving. Part II

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Why Do We Grieve? Understanding Grief in Five Element Acupuncture, Part I

Grief in Five Element Acupuncture Grief in Five Element Acupuncture is viewed as a natural emotional response to the loss that comes with life transitions. Grief carries a heavy emotional charge, especially in mainstream Western culture. The unbinding and dissolving of ties – whether in relationship, community, work, or even our own bodies – can be painful. Yet modern society

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Chinese Herbal Medicine

Potent Partners: Mushroom Nutrition and Chinese Herbal Medicine

Mushroom Nutrition and Medicine, East and West Don’t underestimate the lowly mushroom! There’s far more to mushroom nutrition than you may think. Even the common button mushrooms at the grocery store are packed with valuable nutrients. Wild and specially mushrooms are prized for culinary use across traditional cultures East and West – porcini, morels, chanterelles, truffles, maitake, shiitake, oysters and

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Zero Balancing and Kundalini Yoga
Energy Healing

Zero Balancing and Kundalini Yoga: Healing and Transformation through Movement, Part II

Touching Consciousness through Bone Energy Guest author: Jamie Carmody; Jamie teaches Zero Balancing and Kundalini Yoga in San Antonio, Texas. Zero Balancing and Kundalini Yoga: the Biomechanics of Self–Evolution Zero Balancing and Kundalini Yoga (as taught by Yogi Bhajan) are compatible systems of healing and self-transformation – technologies of “self-evolution”. “Self-evolution” is equivalent to self-transformation, self-growth. Zero Balancing is a

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