Happy New Year! With January upon us and February “just around the corner, “I thought I should write something about the liver. So, what does January and February have to do with it you ask? February is considered the beginning of spring and the liver and gallbladder are organs that relate to this special season. The liver and gallbladder work…
November is “Movember,” men’s health awareness month. But what does this actually mean? Well, the slogan from the Movember foundation is “stop men dying too young.” So, let them die… just not too young… but don’t let them stick around too long… maybe just until the kids are out of college. If I was a man I would be sending…
Inflammation… has become, shall we say, a buzz word. We hear this word so often in discussions of nearly every type of health issue. But what is it really? What does it mean? How does it start? How do we stop it? The biggest and most important question of all is… How does inflammation affect a person’s health? Think of…
Concerned about your heart? Well, you should be. The heart according to Chinese medicine is the King of all organs. The heart is a pump, which moves the blood throughout the body. The arteries and veins are the pipes through which the blood flows. Simple concept. After all, once our heart stops beating we stop living. End of story. I…
The roots of Thermography, or heat differentiation, are ancient, dating back to the time of the pyramids. A papyrus from 1700 BC documents the association of temperature with disease. By 400 BC, physicians commonly employed a primitive form of Thermography: they applied a thin coat of mud to a patient’s body, observed the patterns made by the different rates of…
Your lymphatic system is essentially your body’s “sewage processing plant”, which is responsible for removing waste, toxins, and other unwanted material out of your cells and tissues so they can be flushed out of your body. When your lymph stops flowing freely, it’s like having your garbage company go on strike. The garbage in your home begins to pile up—and…
