Arizona-Acupuncture

10/12/2023

We're long overdue to change this outdated and often incorrect measure of health.

The main diagnostic test for obesity — the body mass index — accounts for only height and weight, leaving out a slew of factors that influence body fat and health.

03/26/2023

In this exclusive excerpt from ‘Your Brain on Art,’ we learn how sounds and images are proving to measurably heal the brain.

01/04/2023

"From all the data, one very clear finding has emerged: Strong relationships are what make for a happy life. More than wealth, I.Q. or social class, it’s the robustness of our bonds that most determines whether we feel fulfilled."

Today, you will identify the areas of your life in which you would like to be more connected.

06/03/2022

I know we're pretty much over Covid by now but it's not quite over us. The more we understand it's many faces, the better prepared we'll be to stay healthy and keep our communities safe. So here you go--just a little more info to add to the pot..

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As a science journalist, I’ve read dozens of research papers about Covid-19, and I’ve interviewed so many virologists, infectious disease physicians and immunologists over the past two years that I’ve lost count. But nothing prepared me for what happened after my 7-year-old daughter tested pos...

02/21/2022

How Long Covid Exhausts the Body https://nyti.ms/3oWAFJO

A picture is emerging of the toll long Covid takes inside the body and why it can be so debilitating.

01/07/2022

Where we are now, in a nutshell..

In the face of rising COVID-19 cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

01/04/2022

Diets Make You Feel Bad. Try Training Your Brain Instead. https://nyti.ms/3qLVIif

The new Eat Well Challenge will show you how to reshape your eating habits without dieting.

07/07/2019

"It's reassuring to have fresh research corroborate that each of us can trigger a "relaxation response" (Benson et al., 1975) simply by focusing on the inhalation-to-exhalation ratio of our breathing and consciously extending the length of each exhale while doing breathing exercises as we go about our day-to-day lives."

Respiratory vagus nerve stimulation (rVNS) counteracts fight-or-flight stress.

07/28/2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630792401/sleep-scientist-warns-against-walking-through-life-in-an-underslept-state

Here's a good interview about sleep, your health and the very real dangers of 'the underslept state', it's well worth a listen..

"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep. Originally broadcast Oct. 17, 2017.

07/13/2018

Here's the second part to the latest article I posted on cutting through all the hype on diets and nutrition. It's sound advice, I hope you find it helpful..

Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz tackle the questions they received after their original story on healthy food.

06/13/2018

A good article to help cut through all the noise about how and what to eat to maintain a healthy diet..

Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz patiently answer pretty much every question we could think of about healthy food.

06/04/2018

The future is coming..

Immune cells from the woman’s own body used to wipe out tumours

05/11/2018

Watch what you say, watch what you think..

It's incredible what one month of harsh words did to this poor plant.

03/12/2018

If you've ever wondered what kind of training goes into being a Nationally Board Certified practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture, this article lays it out well.

~~~~~ Did you hear the huge sigh of relief on February 28th? If you have super-human ears and you did but you don’t know where it came from, well…you can stop wondering now. That was m…

02/20/2018

"I want to change the way you think about forests. You see, underground there is this other world, a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. It might remind you of a sort of intelligence."
--Suzanne Somard

Humans have long recognized the song of trees. One biologist argues that listening to forests again can spark a new ecological consciousness, naturally.

01/30/2018

Cold versus flu: Because colds and flu share many symptoms, it can be difficult to tell them apart. Learn the differences between colds and flu - CDC

12/18/2017

Not the most appetizing subject for a post, but timely, as the cold and flu season is ramping up quickly. Consider trying one or more of these before reaching for an over the counter pharmaceutical fix..

There are millions of people that experience coughing and breathing difficulties on daily basis. They are often caused by nasal or throat obstructions and as a result of the phlegm in the lungs. Th…

10/15/2017

Find out why we are gaining weight faster and easier than our ancestors did, and why we need to eat less and exercise more than they would to lose it!