Bounce Back from a Workout With This Centuries-Old Trick
You've probably heard of people getting acupuncture to deal with stress and headaches. But I've heard a ton lately about how it can help you deal with sports injuries -- like this study about it relieving chronic pain, what you'd get from an overuse injury. But since I've spent the past month training for a half-marathon in the suddenly super-chilly NYC temps, I've noticed my hip flexor hurting way more than usual -- it literally hurts every time I move. With other remedies not working, I checked in with Eastern medicine and tried acupuncture. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - November 25, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Fitness acupuncture fitness tips health injury pain races recovery running training Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture to Help Relieve Pain After Surgery: Why it May Become More Common
Studies in recent years are proving that having acupuncture right after surgery could relieve pain as well as a pain medication. Is that the beginning of doctors taking acupuncture more seriously in what it could do to relieve health problems?Contributor: Greg BrianPublished: Nov 19, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - November 19, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it
One of my scientific heroes is Bernard Katz. The closing words of his inaugural lecture, as professor of biophysics at UCL, hang on the wall of my office as a salutory reminder to refrain from talking about ‘how the brain works’. After speaking about his discoveries about synaptic transmission, he ended thus.
"My time is up and very glad I am, because I have been leading myself right up to a domain on which I should not dare to trespass, not even in an Inaugural Lecture. This domain contains the awkward problems of mind and matter about which so much has been talked and so little can be said, and hav...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 18, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: badscience Bernard Katz nutribollocks nutrition nutritional therapy randomisation randomization RCT regulation Academia causality quackery Source Type: blogs
Does acupuncture help pregnancy rates in IVF?
Acupuncture has become, for many women, an accepted part of their infertility journey. Several studies, including a meta-analysis of 24 studies published in the journal Fertility Sterility in 2012, indicated higher pregnancy rates among women who had undergone acupuncture as part of their treatment protocol compared with women who had no acupuncture or a sham procedure. Any improvement in outcomes is welcome considering the emotional and financial drain of each cycle.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 12, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
5 Ways to be Healthy Without Kale
Is being healthy about guzzling down 14 kale smoothies, going to 6am spin classes, and shopping at Whole Foods?
When my body became sick with Epstein-Barr virus (mono that doesn’t goes away,) I believed the pathway to health was threefold: gentle exercise in the forms of swimming, yoga, and strength training, a nutritional plan that included a whole array of supplements, and acupuncture.
Burgers and pizza became no gluten, no dairy, grass fed, pastured, and organic. I canceled my health insurance so I could begin to afford the $100 a week acupuncture treatments and the overpriced farmer’s market bills from all the pr...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brigitte Theriault Tags: confidence diet health and fitness self improvement how to be healthy meditation pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
