Alternative Medicine Acupuncture

TCM For Bodybuilding? These Formulas May Help Prevent Muscle Loss

DFA DFA — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:32:50 +0000

When you were a child, did you have a parent or grandparent that seemed like a superhero? Perhaps you remember their once-vigorous physique hoisting up and spinning you around like you were a featherweight. Fast forward to today, however, and Superman or Wonder Woman are now mere shells of their former selves, barely struggling to […]

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Herbal Therapy for Hip OA

DFA DFA — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:52:13 +0000

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW OA presentations rarely present with a single pattern and the traditional subcategories of bi syndrome are extremely in effectively treating the suffering of the patient. Blood stagnation bi syndrome and heat bi syndrome are extremely important patterns when treating OA of the hip and other joints. Depending on the pattern, Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang, Zhong Guo Tong […]

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Alcohol vs. Weed: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective

DFA DFA — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:50:12 +0000

Is it better to sip or to puff? It’s a debate you’ve likely heard before: when it comes to health, which is the lesser of two evils: alcohol or cannabis? From a Western medicine perspective, modern science still doesn’t have a clear answer. The CDC has walked back its endorsement of moderate alcohol consumption, and cannabis remains […]

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Metabolic Psychiatry

DFA DFA — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:33:05 +0000

Metabolic psychiatry is an emerging field of research revealing robust connections between metabolic dysfunction and psychiatric conditions, with mitochondria suggested to be at the core of these connections. Metabolism impacts every cell, tissue, and organ of the body, with its role in brain health being particularly significant. As the body’s most metabolically active organ, the brain is highly […]

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Vitamin D & Vertigo

DFA DFA — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:30:30 +0000

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), the most common cause of vertigo in older adults, is characterized by temporary symptoms brought on by having the head in a specific position, primarily nystagmus and vertigo. The portion of falls in an older population that can be attributed to BPPV is not clearly established, but is thought to […]

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Microbiota & Seasonal Allergies

DFA DFA — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:28:47 +0000

First introduced in 1989, the “hygiene hypothesis” proposed that exposure to specific microbes, perhaps during crucial windows of development, educates the immune system in a way that modifies the risk for allergic, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. Initially, this was proposed in response to the observation that the position of a child in a family (their place in […]

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Ginseng mediates its anticancer activity by inhibiting the expression of DNMTs and reactivating methylation-silenced genes in colorectal cancer

DFA DFA — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:52:32 +0000

https://academic.oup.com/carcin/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/carcin/bgad025/7151093?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

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TCM for Sepsis: The Power of Xuebijing

DFA DFA — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:16:29 +0000

According to the World Health Organization’s first global report on sepsis (2020), “When sepsis is not recognized early and managed promptly, it can lead to septic shock, multiple organ failure and death. … Even sepsis survivors are not out of danger: only half will completely recover, the rest will either die within 1 year or be burdened […]

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(Chinese Subtitles) “Acupuncture Fever – The Road to Legalization in California”

DFA DFA — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:47:59 +0000

Magnesium & Brain Volume

DFA DFA — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:11:57 +0000

More evidence of the likely neuroprotective effect of magnesium was recently published in the European Journal of Nutrition. This study comes on the heels of an analysis of NHANES data published last year in Alzheimer’s & Dementia which found that a higher total intake (diet and supplemental) of magnesium was associated with better cognitive function among participants aged 60 and older. This […]

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