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Bryan McMahon L.Ac. on Calming the Wind: Chinese Medical Views of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Other Autoimmune Conditions

By Bryan McMahon, L.Ac The Wandering Cloud Ancient Chinese Medicine             The alarm is going off and all you want to do is stay in bed. Daily chores are just too much effort and at the center of all of it, you just don’t feel like yourself. The doctors have diagnosed you with hypothyroidism, or […]

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Understanding and Managing Anxiety

In the United States, we have been on an 80-year trend toward increased anxiety, and it’s no wonder why.[1] We live in a world that is obsessed with productivity. Our political situation seems to be in a constant state of upheaval. Fear-based messaging is prevalent in the media. In a world inundated with stressors, what

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What is InnerDialogue?

By Sarah Clark, LAc InnerDialogue is a healing form that allows us to use body symptoms—our joint pain, our insomnia, our digestive distress, our anxiety–to access a deeper understanding about where we are out of balance. The practitioner and patient use the ancient, non-verbal language of mudras and kinesiology to explore what is truly at

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Tracking Your Fertility

By Dr. Chloe Scheel, ND, LAc There are 4 main signs that are important when tracking fertility. These are listed below. Ideally, after 3-4 months, you will have enough data gathered to really understand your cycle, predict ovulation, and predict your fertility window. This data can be tracked in an app on your phone or

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3 Tips for Reducing Systemic Inflammation in Patients with IBD (It works for everyone else too)

By Dr. Lindsay Wilkinson, ND, LAc Yesterday, an article published in Medscape reviewed a recent cohort study linking IBD (Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis) to a significantly increased risk for “arterial events” including cardiovascular ischemia (heart attack and angina), cerebrovascular disease (stroke and TIA), and peripheral arterial disease.   The study compared the frequency of

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Listening Deeply, Working With Trauma, and Being a Working Mom: An Interview with Sarah Clark, LAc

Interview by Kellyn Adams Kellyn: How did you make your way to practicing acupuncture? Sarah: My first introduction to acupuncture was through being a patient and experiencing a profound opening through receiving it. Kellyn: And you taught writing before you became an acupuncturist, right? Sarah: Yes, I was a writing teacher at the time, working

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Five Simple Ways Acupuncture can Boost your Mental Health

Five Simple Ways Acupuncture can Boost your Mental Health   What does it take to go from walking to bicycling or dancing, from tapping your fingers to  painting or playing the piano?  There is a whole symphony of coordination among muscles and  joints, senses and reflexes, tendons and ligaments.  There’s also endurance, tenacity, curiosity,  and

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What is TRE®?

by Sarah Clark, LAc Developed by psychologist and bodyworker David Berceli, TRE®, or Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, is a series of simple and easily accessible exercises that activate the body’s natural vibrational healing. When we experience stress or trauma our bodies tend toward contraction. Most of us live in a state of relative nervous system hyperarousal

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SIBO and the Gut-Brain Connection: A Conversation with Dr. Whitney Hayes

Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Whitney Hayes, who specializes in treating gastrointestinal disorders. She talked about the causes and the mechanism of small intestine bacterial overgrowth, healing the gut through antimicrobials and dietary changes, and the reality of how gut dysbiosis affects our mood. Here

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Acupuncture as a Conversation With the Body: An Interview With Joanna Present Wolfe, LAc  

Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc  Recently, I had an opportunity to sit down with Joanna Present Wolfe, LAc, at Kwan-Yin Healing Arts Center. She told me about the joy she takes in the creative process of being a healer, about the way she perceives and moves blocks in the meridians, and about the fulfillment she

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Dr. David Chang, ND, LAc. on Relieving Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy and Upping Athletic Performance

Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc I had an opportunity to sit down last week and talk with Dr. Chang about his passion for treating chronic pain, and the ways in which he supports athletes to reach their full potential. This is what he had so say:   Sarah: Tell me about how you work with

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The Treatment and Prevention of Strokes and other Cardiovascular Accidents

by Michelle Winchell ND LAc Strokes, or cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs), are basically heart attacks that occur in our brain causing tissue damage due to decreased blood flow.  There are two basic types of stroke – ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic strokes happen when an artery in the brain gets clogged or closes off, while hemorrhagic strokes

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Heart Health 101: Stress, Inflammation, and Inertia, Part 2

By: Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc As we say goodbye to National Heart Health Awareness Month and move closer to the warmer temperatures of spring, let’s heat up the conversation around heart health.  Inflammation, dubbed “the Silent Killer,” (https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20040223,00.html)  has been linked to nearly every chronic disease of industrialized society, including cardiovascular disease.   As early as

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Heart Health 101: Stress, Inflammation, and Inertia

By Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc Piggy-backing on the high visibility of Valentine’s Day red heart-shaped boxes, February has been declared National Heart Health Awareness Month.  It seems only reasonable to discuss the heart health topic from a naturopathic perspective and to dispel a few common misunderstandings.  In my practice, one of the most common questions

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It’s the Flu, What to Do?

by Dr. Jennifer Karon-Flores, ND Well, it’s happened.  I have not had the flu in years, but guess what?  Last week was my week to get sick.  I had a fever and chills, cough, and generally felt quite sorry for myself (though I'm on the mend).  If you had an appointment with me earlier this week,

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Pelvic Congestion: Are You Stuck?

By Dr. Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc  Get moving or get dying. This truth was well-understood by the Chinese over 5,000 years ago when they understood the genesis of disease to be the lack of movement of qi and blood in the body. Like a summer pond with no breeze to circulate the waters, stagnation in

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Nervous System Overload

by Dr. Jennifer Karon-Flores Stressed?  Of course you are.  We all are.  Our nervous systems are still living in the stone age, when stress was a very different animal.  Back in the days before cell phones, mechanized transit, and artificial light at night, our nervous systems evolved to keep us alive.  Our fight or flight

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Ear Infections Hurt!

by Muir Ferdun, L.Ac. Lots of children get ear infections. No, really, LOTS of children. It's the most common reason for non-routine doctor visits in the under-4-years-old set. So, here's the drill. You see your child start getting grumpy, pulling at her ear, rubbing a cheek, running a fever without much nasal congestion, or not

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The “C” Word

by Dr. Ilana Gurevich ND, LAc   "You have cancer."  You hear these words and your heart goes cold. All of a sudden your whole life feels like it is over and you think that you have a death sentence and there is nothing you can do to get out of it.  After the "C"

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THE SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC!

by David Berkshire, L.Ac. My father-in-law brought home the USA Today last weekend, and the front page declared "The deadliest flu season ever, half the US population may be infected!" I checked the NY Times and it was a little calmer about it, declaring we don't know what will come of this season. Every year

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