Flipping the Switch: How Acupuncture Helps with Stress

As an Acupuncturist, it’s common for me to walk into a treatment room to work with a patient whose chief complaints are largely centered around stress. And while acupuncture as a modality has been known for thousands of years to be helpful for stress, most...
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Happy World Health Day! How Can We Achieve a Healthier & Fairer World?

Today is World Health Day and this year's message is: "Together we can reach a fairer and healthier world." In this spirit, the World Health Organization is calling to end health inequities worldwide by urging leaders to address root causes of health...
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Add a Restoring Detox to Your Spring Cleaning To-Do List!

Spring is the perfect time of year to invest in repairing, replenishing, and restoring your body and your health. There is no better way for a reboot than a personal spring cleaning, a detoxification of your organs, systems, and functions to get you back on...
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Keeping Brain Health Top of Mind

"Why do you focus on brain health?", people sometimes ask me. And I tell them, "Your brain is important, it has to last you the rest of your life." Since that is the case, we should take good care of our brains. We want to keep our brains to be in optimal...
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How to Celebrate Thanksgiving While Being Apart

For many of us, Thanksgiving will look very different this year and coming together as a family may not be possible. Try not to let the distance between your loved ones prevent you from connecting with each other and embracing the opportunity to create unique...
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Redesign Your Destiny

As we continue to learn more about the novel coronavirus and the toll it has taken all around the world, we're also learning more about why it affected some much worse than others. While many healthy people died from COVID-19, the vast majority of cases had...
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A Pathway toward Health without Dead-Ends

If like most people you have made attempts in the past to improve your health only to be let down each time, we want to show you a better way. Whether you struggle from fatigue, weight gain, chronic pain, low sex drive, mood swings, allergies, depression,...
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10 Ways to Reduce Stress & Balance the Fight/Flight Hormone, Cortisol!

Cortisol controls many functions in our body including blood sugar levels, metabolism, inflammation, immunity, memory, and blood pressure. Many experts refer to it as our internal fight or flight response. When we’re faced with a crisis, cortisol is our first...
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Don't Let These 5 Culprits of Heart Stress Hinder your Holiday Season!

Oh the holidays! A source of great joy for many, especially for the youngest among us. However, it can also be a very real and very powerful source of immense stress. Between parties, shopping, and our regular day-to-day responsibilities, life inevitably...
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Six Overlooked Causes of Autoimmune Disease

Autoimmune diseases affect more than 50 million Americans. With symptoms that range from stomach pain to joint pain to itchy skin and fatigue, autoimmune diseases are often underdiagnosed as they mimic those of so many other conditions. There are more than 80...
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