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Acupuncture For Coronary Heart Disease

Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] An important new acupuncture study from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital successfully measured improvements in blood flow to the heart for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers discovered that needling two specific acupuncture points caused significant improvements in patients with CHD. Acupuncture […]

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Acupuncture Helps NBA Star Chandler Parsons To Victory

Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, Sports Medicine, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

NBA Houston Rockets star forward Chandler Parsons tried acupuncture as a new way of treating his chronic back pain to get back in the game. Parsons commented that acupuncture significantly reduced his back pain levels. Parsons recuperated enough to make it back in the line up today. The rockets beat California’s Golden State Warriors in a

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Acupuncture Practice Expands The Brain

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Researchers note that the behavioral and tactile-motor training and clinical experiences of acupuncturists promotes specific types of brain development in practitioners. This is certainly one of the more unusual acupuncturist studies of 2013. Ordinarily, studies focus on the effects of acupuncture on patients. Now, researchers have made an intensive investigation of the effects of

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Thai Yoga Therapy Workshop

Mind & Spirit, Oriental Medicine, Staying Healthy, Thai Yoga Therapy / Laith Naayem

How would you like to learn Thai Massage for yourself? Whether treating your friends of applying it professionally, this is an invaluable skill that promotes health, flexibility, happiness… and it’s fun!

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Anxiety, Depression, Acupuncture

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Oriental Medicine, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] As our broadband speeds up and our phones get smarter, some matters regarding our health get overlooked — especially our mental health. Tablets and smart phones have made it more convenient to be connected, but a large number of people still feel disconnected. Fortunately, the Internet also has allowed people to explore the possibilities

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Relief from Antidepressant Side Effects

Acupuncture, Featured, Mind & Spirit, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Researchers have discovered that acupuncture successfully relieves the adverse effects of antidepressant medications on sex drive and function. Men showed overall improvement in sexual function across a broad spectrum of health concerns. Acupuncture also enhanced relief from both anxiety and depression in the male group. Women benefitted from a more targeted response to acupuncture therapy

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Acupuncture Heals the Brain

Acupuncture, Featured, Mind & Spirit, Oriental Medicine, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture stimulates brain cell proliferation in the cerebrum. The researchers note that acupuncture “exerts a neuroprotective effect in ischemic stroke.” The researchers also successfully measured the biochemical pathway by which acupuncture exerts this medical benefit to the brain. Stimulation of two acupuncture points was shown to activate the extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) pathway, an important

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Meditation’s Antianxiety Effects Visible on Brain Imaging

Mind & Spirit, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] All the more reason to attend my free meditation class! Individuals with no experience in meditation who participate in mindful meditation training sessions for as little as 4 days show changes in specific brain mechanisms that correlate with a reduction in anxiety, a new imaging study shows. “There is plenty of evidence that meditation

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Acupuncture Benefits Heart & Reduces Angina

Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Research concludes that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of heart pain, angina pectoris. This condition, commonly referred to as angina, is chest pain due to ischemia of the heart muscle wherein blood supply is restricted resulting in concomitant oxygen and glucose deprivation to the heart. A major cause of heart pain is coronary

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Acupuncture Lowers High Blood Pressure

Acupuncture, Featured, Oriental Medicine, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture can reduce blood pressure. The study discovered that patients taking antihypertensive medications benefitted from further reductions in blood pressure by adding acupuncture to the treatment regime. As a result, the researchers concluded that “acupuncture should be in the hypertension treatment guidelines and widely used for blood pressure regulation. Acupuncture subjects chosen for the

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