Natural and Alternative Fatigue Treatment Options

In our clinic, and in clinics around the world, patients often ask "How Does Acupuncture Work?".  The truth is we simply do not know, but most are very, very glad it does....  Saying we don't know exactly, however, is very different from saying we have no ideas or no signposts along the way to understanding all of the mechanisms.  There are often very reliable and observable changes to the stimulation of various acupuncture points.  The problem from a research perspective is there are often many physiological, chemical, horm

Similar to large numbers of people being told they have low vitamin D in recent years, there appears to be a similar increase in men being told that they have low testosterone.  For better or worse many cultures, ours included, often seem more concerned with finding a way to increase testosterone (i.e. aspects of strength and virility) vs.

      In 1920, Hans Bergen measured variations in the voltage of the brain and discovered there exist 2 main properties regarding brain waves: amplitude and frequency.  Amplitude being the fullness or strength of bio electrical current via synapses in cells of our body and frequency refers to the rate of pulsing or vibratory cyclical wave like movement between the firing cells.

This exploration of the heart system is the third in a series demystifying Chinese Medicine Theory for Patients and the General Public. As we learned previously in the Liver and Kidney system articles, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provides us with unique and illustrative ways of looking at our health and the relationships between ourselves, others, and our environment.