Water is the foundation of all your body’s processes: digestion, detoxification, nutrient absorption, lymph flow, and cellular repair. These are all crucial to healing for overcoming illness and pain.   It’s important that you drink enough water, but it’s equally important that your water is pure with the minerals you need to promote efficient flow of these processes. This is especially true when you’re using supplements and herbs – pure water dramatically improves how well y

Physical symptoms are often manifestations of mental and emotional stress, and there’s one easy act you can do every day to bring calm to not only your mind, but almost every organ in your body.   Gratitude practices aren’t just a mindset but offer deep physiological impacts that influence your whole-body health. This concept is supported by both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine perspectives.   I’ve watched emotional pain create worse physical symptoms in man

If you have a cold, think twice before running to pick up some Emergen-C.   You’re right that vitamin C helps fight off infections, but the well-known supplements you pick up at the grocery store are missing important cold fighting elements.   Most vitamin C supplements are made from synthetic ascorbic acid, which the FDA legally considers to be vitamin C. This is because of a mistake early researchers made when trying to analyze and measure vitamin C. But it isn’t the whole

After struggling with the appearance of her hair skin, and nails from perimenopause, one of my new Facial Rejuvenation patients told me, “I feel like I needed to work on my skin from the inside out.”   She’s right. An inside out approach is the best way to address hair loss , unhealthy nails, and unwanted skin appearances .      In my clinic, I use approaches that work at the root of your problems. I look at the body as a whole. Your hair, skin, and nails reveal how your dig

Military service shapes people in profound ways through discipline, loyalty, courage, and resilience. However, your nervous system might not know that your service has ended.   Are you struggling with pain, tension, and lingering stress that followed you home after deployment? You’re not alone, and we’re here to help you toward recovery.   This Veterans Day, we honor not just your service, but your healing journey. Acupuncture and herbal medicine provide a gentle, natural wa

If you thought that taking as much vitamin B possible was good for you, think again.   I was reviewing the ingredients on a supplement the other day and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The suggested dose had 14,000% of the vitamin B your body needs daily – I find this really frustrating.   That’s an absurd amount, and it can hurt you.   Yes, vitamin B is removed from your body when you urinate, but this doesn’t mean that you can take high doses and leave your body unaffec

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