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Does green tea help you lose weight and melt fat like Ozempic?
I came across an article about a claim trending on TikTok that green tea will help you lose weight and burn fat, “Is Green Tea Really Nature’s Ozempic?” While green tea won’t… Read more
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Do I need to detox?
Sorry, but the answer is yes, you need to detox. In my functional nutrition practice, I create personalized detoxification programs with foods, herbs, and supplements based on functional medicine labs.… Read more
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Herbs to power and detox your cells
The mitochondrial theory of aging upholds that oxidative stress over time affects lifespan in that it eventually begins to damage our DNA, creating instability and corrupting our ability to create… Read more
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Benefits of Bitters
Bitter foods have many benefits. We have historically enjoyed bitters in our diet including: dandelion, radish, artichoke, wormwood, gentian, coffee, kale, dark chocolate, arugula, endive, escarole, mustard greens, and bitter melon. … Read more
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What collagen is and isn’t.
A Chinese medicine and functional nutrition perspective. In natural medicine, there is a maxim: like treats like. Traditional Chinese dietary therapy recommends soups with gelatinous and tendinous parts of animals… Read more
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Is Vitamin D Useless?
A new study would have us believe so. But not so fast. A large scale study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed in The NY Times recently posed the question: Does… Read more
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Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs for COVID Long Haulers: A Case Study
One in three people who contract COVID-19 will suffer from lingering symptoms according to CDC estimates. These patients are referred to as “long haulers”. Because of the widespread infection rates,… Read more
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Laser Acupuncture for Fertility
The treatment of fertility with laser acupuncture (with a low level therapeutic laser) has shown promise in research from Japan and Denmark. This safe and painless treatment can reduce inflammation… Read more
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Acupuncture appears to quell inflammation of cytokine storm.
You may by now have heard the term ‘cytokine storm,’ the systemic multi-system inflammatory syndrome that the COVID virus can unleash in the most severe cases. A team of researchers… Read more
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An Acupuncturist’s Response to Tribune Article: Testing Traditional Chinese Medicine
Letter to the Editor, Chicago Tribune In Adam Minter’s article, Testing Traditional Chinese Medicine (Mon, Sept 21, 2015), he discusses the growing popularity of Traditional Chinese herbal medicine in China… Read more
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