Lloyd Walton, LAc.

12/15/2025

https://brandnewvegan.substack.com/p/five-simple-lessons-we-can-learn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4d3bv9&triedRedirect=true

And the Blue Zones

05/02/2025

Is this your 1st acupuncture treatment? I thought I would post the brochure I provide my new patients. Written by me with a little help from my former career as a public school teacher, this brochure contains information that is easy to understand for someone who arrives at our but without previous experience or knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This is not meant to be an explanation of TCM theory - especially since my current practice at Boomerange Healthcare (Integrated Pain Management) focuses on pain management. It's meant to help new patients undertand how it will help and allay apprehension.

04/08/2025

https://apnews.com/article/foods-that-help-you-sleep-cookbook-95e0061b85936b8a72eb10377ec9c2c0?utm_source=fb_paid&utm_medium=Facebook_Desktop_Feed&utm_campaign=AP+News+-+Content+Promotion+-+2025&utm_term=35%2B+News+Interests&utm_content=A+new+cookbook+ties+healthy+eating+to+good+sleep&utm_id=6664512304447&fbclid=IwY2xjawJhW31leHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQAAAYTSyZwfwEeLoy3wEiY1nck_oXKmO4lxcwozkv-YFz3Z46rFu68jcbS1Wr73G0ud37S6uU_aem_BnMoEC1G2mnnWw5FyafuHw

Eating greasy food can keep you awake at night. But does good food help you sleep? The answer is yes, according to Marie-Pierre St-Onge, a professor and sleep researcher at Columbia University.

02/04/2025

Yes, a little humor! The Mad Scientist! Dr. Evil!

02/01/2025

12/11/2024

Thanks to Brain Cells That Aren't in the Brain: Regulating the body by activating aspects of the Sympathetic/Parasympathetic Nervous System - a major method acupuncture uses to help patients

Brain cells are increasingly being found outside the brain, and now researchers have identified specific neurons in the abdomen that control some aspects of digestion.

11/08/2024

That's right. I'm doctor! I should have posted this in 2021, but how crazy was it during the pandemic! Funny story, after working 3 years at Boomerang Healthcare, recently a medical assistant asked "hey, are you a doctor because new patients are asking the call center when they schedule?" No one, not even my supervisor, knew that I have a doctorate

03/22/2024

CRPS & Mirror treatment (literally) - Sharing a successful treatment at Boomerang Health Care: A patient with CRPS (Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome): I applied mirror/balance method with an actual mirror to trick the brain into thinking the opposing (afflicted) appendage was being needled. In 2 minutes, patient felt in the afflicted hand tingling occur in the palmar side, warmth return to the whole hand (prior infrared lamp), pain stopped, and movement begin in the fingers. Her shoulders relaxed, her voice cleared (her throat felt a closed off), and all the facial muscles that had been tense relaxed. After removing needles, these sensation continued. Patient unexpectedly used the affected hand to reach for her glove which she no longer uses for reaching and holding

02/19/2024

Whats Sports Acupuncture? Some peeps been asking, so let me show you. But first, show me where it hurts... latest completion of continuing education. Was so much fun!

09/10/2023

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/09/1198047149/blue-zones-live-to-100-7-healthy-habits

Dan Buettner has spent decades exploring the lifestyles and diets of people in remote places where living to 100 is more common. Here are life-enhancing habits from these "blue zones."