Whole Family Acupuncture Clinic

09/30/2019

“Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

12/09/2018

Cordyceps, D**g Chong Xia Cao.

06/29/2017

"If you grasp the wisdom that is contained in the workings of the universe and expressed in the realm of philosophy, you will be able to safeguard your physical health."

- The Book of Songs (Shijing)

09/28/2015

"In my 4th summer of ALS I am healed by music and vulnerability...healing comes in many guises. We're healed by the touch of a friend, we're healed by the touch of a child. And healing does not imply that your life is suddenly going to lose all of the struggle, all of the challenge. What it does instead is, it strengthens us for what is next. But to be open to healing, means to be vulnerable, and if you look at me you know I'm what can be called a vulnerable adult, the cat doesn't even listen to me anymore. I have no real sense of control anymore. The choice could be to resent this, to be frustrated by this, and I there are times when I am, I promise. But I think the grater choice is the fact that once you embrace your vulnerability you are open to such beauty. And in the end, isn't this one of the things that makes us human? The ability to make, to perceive, to live in beauty?" ~ Bruce Kramer from and interview with Krista Tippett

09/28/2015

Just listened to a poignant podcast which was an interview with Jean Vanier, during the interview he says..."there are so many things we don't know, I just have to honor what we don't know. There are so many things I can't explain, because explanation is about headiness, we want to have it in the head. But the whole question is not to understand, but it is to be attracted to the place of pain, in order to support those who are suffering. If we try to know too much, it may cut us off from being present, and according to where I am at, and who I am, it is vital to be present..."

06/29/2015

One of the best thing you can do for your health is avoid "fake" anything. Sugar is bad enough for us in huge quantities, fake sugar can have even more hideous effects. Likewise for "fake" flavor and fake colors. Eat as many whole, organic unprocessed foods as possible.


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One of the largest studies of its kind recently examined the link between diet drinks and cardiovascular issues such as heart attack and stroke in healthy, postmenopausal women. The research took place at the University of Iowa, and the findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s…

11/24/2014

Today, an estimated 70-80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States are used for the single purpose of fattening up farm animals."
~ Martin J Bl**er, Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues.

Note, these antibiotics are not used to help sick animals, they are not there to fight disease, the are given with feed purely to raise weight gain 5-15 percent. For this small benefit, we increase bacterial resistance by leaps and bounds.

This speaks not only to the importance of reducing our own use of antibiotics but also to the importance of having eating organically as much as possible.

Sweden banned this practice in 1986 and the European Union stopped it in 1999. But US food producers and pharmaceutical companies have to date stonewalled the elimination of this practice.

11/17/2014

There are some of us for which gluten is a problem, but for most of us, perhaps the problem is something else altogether.

The real reason you need to stop eating toxic wheat even if you don't currently have a wheat or gluten sensitivity.

04/18/2014

In Western Tanzania tribes of wandering foragers called Hadza eat a diet of roots, berries, and game. According to a new study, their guts are home to a microbial community unlike anything that's been seen before in a modern human population -- providing, perhaps, a snapshot of what the human gut mi…

04/05/2014

“We thought for a long time that the reason why acupuncture worked was just because people believed it worked,” Vickers, a researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said... “We now know that the effect of acupuncture goes above and beyond the placebo effect. Acupuncture is a reasonable option for chronic pain.”

Acupuncture, an ancient Chinese therapy that inserts needles into the body, reduced back and neck pain, arthritis and headaches, according to the largest analysis of the treatment.

11/30/2013

Happiness is great but it is not the goal.

People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.

11/22/2013

Good words for the fall.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton Upon...