Emily Navas Health

Emily Navas Health Health and wellness counseling, Functional medicine, Classical Five Element Acupuncture

05/16/2026

Getting to know who you are is part of the medicine!

05/09/2026

Many women are functioning in a state of chronic depletion and don’t even realize how far from themselves they’ve drifted. 😔

- they call it stress
-aging or
-just a busy season

But often, the nervous system has been overextended for years. 💥💥
-Sleep becomes lighter
-patience shorter
-hormones shift
-inflammation rises.

The body loses its ability to fully restore.

☀️In functional medicine, I look at the physiological patterns underneath this: cortisol dysregulation blood sugar imbalance inflammation nutrient depletion, and the effects of chronic stress on the body overtime.

☀️ In Five Element Acupuncture, I explore something equally important: the emotional and spiritual burden a woman has been carrying for far too long.
🤍Because true healing isn’t simply the absence of symptoms. It’s feeling present in your body again, rested clear and alive.

🌺This Mother’s Day💐 I’m holding space for the women who have spent years holding everyone else together.

05/05/2026

Great turnout for my talk on “How Acupuncture Can Help With Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression & Sleeplessness “

04/29/2026

Uric acid kidney stones don’t just “happen”

They’re a reflection of how your body is processing, concentrating and clearing.
💦 hydration
🩸 blood sugar balance
🧬kidney function
💥inflammation

All of it matters.
In functional medicine, we don’t chase the stone – we ask why your system created the environment for it in the first place. Because when uric acid is elevated, it’s often not just about diet… It’s about metabolism, detoxification, and internal terrain.⚡️

When you shift the terrain, the body clears more efficiently inflammation gets quiet and pattern stop repeating.
✨✨This is the work I do with my patience every day – looking deeper, connecting the dots and supporting the body back into balance
holistichealing

04/17/2026

🌺Acupuncture teaches us that healing isn’t always about calming the system. It’s about moving it out of what is stuck. ☀️In Five Element Acupuncture, we use the points, for movement on the physical and emotional level. This is the work I do with my patience every day.

where in your life are you ready to choose peace over pattern?

🙌DM me if you’d like to make some shifts.

No more pulling out the grey’s…
01/30/2026

No more pulling out the grey’s…

Hair greying may be more than cosmetic. It may be protective.

A new Nature Cell Biology study suggests that when melanocyte stem cells experience DNA damage, they often choose senescence and pigment loss rather than continued self-renewal, a trade-off that appears to reduce melanoma risk in preclinical models.

Under carcinogenic stress, that protective pathway can be bypassed, increasing cancer risk.

A reminder that some features of aging may reflect tumor-suppressive biology, not simple decline.

DOI: 10.1038/s41556-025-01769-9



Limitations: Primarily preclinical (mouse models); mechanistic and hypothesis-generating, not prescriptive. Public research funding (JSPS, AMED); One of the study authors is a co-founder of EADERM Co., Ltd., a research company engaged in the development of hair growth agents and treatments for intractable skin diseases. This affiliation is disclosed for transparency.

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