Drogheda Acupuncture and Wellness Clinic - Suzanne Cafferky

08/10/2025

So what is good for women to practice? Cold plunges or saunas?
Well, science suggests that nothing under 55 degrees for women but men can take much colder temps due to our physiology (fat cells) and saunas at least twice a week for women for 15 mins are hugely beneficial on lots of levels too.
Interesting interview.

07/10/2025

FYI

A comprehensive new Mayo Clinic study finds more than half of heart attacks in women under age 65 were caused by nontraditional factors, such as spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), embolism and other conditions unrelated to artery-clogging plaque. While women experienced less heart attacks than men, the underlying causes were often misdiagnosed highlighting a need for more awareness and advocacy around these conditions.

Read more: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-study-reveals-hidden-causes-of-heart-attacks-in-younger-adults-especially-women/

SCAD Research Inc. Australia SCAD Alliance - Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

03/10/2025

Personally, this is my favourite breathing technique to reset stress and anxiety levels. I practice this a lot and rely on it in scary situations and always find myself going into a deep relaxed meditative state within 5-6 minutes. The key is to push past your mental chatter and the cortisol rush and keep resetting if you loose track of the counting.
I promise you, the hardest part of this is just doing it. The benefits on the other hand are wonderful especially the sense of calm.

Try and do this everyday for 10 mins for continuous benefits.

Find out what you need to know about 4-7-8 breathing, and discover the pros, cons, risks, and benefits, and how it may affect health.

03/10/2025

Seeding for your menstrual cycles and to improve your hormonal markers.

03/10/2025

I really think there is something behind this and in upping healthy fats and our fibre intake as well. The more I read up about unstable sugar levels and its obvious role in the inflammatory processes the more important it becomes to look at our nutrients and we got to get over weighing them and learn more about plant proteins too.
General rule of thumb is 1kg per 1kg of body weight

03/10/2025

A little something to think about. Have a good Friday everyone!

Enfrentar todos os perigos para superar os próprios limites.
As Valquírias

You must always be ready to confront any risk in order to go beyond your own limits.
The Valkyries
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03/10/2025

Acupuncture in clinical trials for trigeminal neuralgia pain scores well for pain relief, mood and better sleep. It stimulates the local nerves of the organism, improves the blood circulation of the tissues, and transmits the excitation of the nerve fibers to the central nervous system.
which then achieves the purpose of reducing the pain.


My take away-

Simply put, Acupuncture is known and proven to

*Modulate central pain processing → reduce pain perception.

*Improve general well-being, stress, and sleep, which can lower pain sensitivity.

Note-
You can also do acupuncture safely as an adjunct with the nerve pain meds if you want.

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is characterized by recurrent episodes of transient severe pain in its distribution area, with abrupt onset and termination. With the progression of the disease, patients are prone to concurrent psychiatric disorders, such ...

01/10/2025

I am a huge believer in adding in focused breathing techniques during treatments and often advise starting with the 4/7/8 technique as it is proven to reduce anxiety when practiced for only 10 mins a day. And it works.
Watch this video for a more comprehensive view of 5 more that can help with nerve pain and regulate your vagus nerve.

29/09/2025

If there was one thing I wished I had enforced when my kids were tweens/teens it was absolutely no phones/screens at any time upstairs in their bedrooms for a start. You got to ask the question have we being duped into dumbing down our young? And what other impacts does it have besides cognitive and emotional dysregulation? Could it impact how we process pain for example?

More is associated with more depressive symptoms, potentially due to shorter sleep and worse white matter organization during early adolescence. https://ja.ma/4mNmToA

28/09/2025

"Beginning hormone replacement therapy (HRT) within five years of menopause onset appears to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Yet starting it later in life seems to have the opposite effect, suggesting the timing of HRT influences how it affects the brain.
“This menopausal transition is actually a neurological transition,” says Roberta Brinton at the University of Arizona, who wasn’t involved with the research. As oestrogen levels drop, the brain must find new ways of producing energy. Some evidence suggests the brain may cannibalise itself, using compounds important for maintaining brain function as fuel, potentially driving neurodegeneration. Initiating HRT during menopause or soon after may stop this shift, says Brinton. But if the brain has already made this transition, it may be too late for HRT to have an effect"