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Travel Tips
- If you are flying into a different time zone, check out how to limit the effect of jetlag by clicking here....
Foods for Dealing with Stress
Keeping meals simple and balanced is best. Plan simple meals for a day or a week at a time (e.g. easy dinner leftovers re-worked for lunch the next...
Stress Less
When I ask patients if they are impacted by stress, many say "As much as always." In other words, yes, but that is normal for them. Stress is...
Avoiding Jet Lag
Simple acupressure technique to help you avoid jet lag.
Q&A: Can acupuncture be used to treat tension headaches?
I was recently asked this question at a health show: Can acupuncture be used to treat tension headaches? Acupuncture absolutely can help treat,...
Top 10 Questions: #2 How Many Treatments Does It Take?
In our world of now, now now, we have been trained to become impatient. Fast food, microwaves, instant messaging, pharmaceuticals have all made our...
Q&A: What is the best way to maintain healthy levels of good and bad bacteria in your body?
I was recently asked this question at a health show. There are two parts to this question. One aspect is keeping limited the bad bacteria in the...
Top 10 Questions: #1 Can you treat [X] symptom, disease, illness?
This is a very common question because we’ve become used to taking one pill for one problem. Have a headache? Take a Tylenol. Have heartburn? Take...
Answering a question: What can be done for psoriasis?
I was asked this question at a health show I attended and the following is my response: To answer your question about psoriasis, there are many...
My dinner chat with Dr. Andrew Weil
Four years ago it was just an idea. Four years ago I started meeting regularly with Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Ashley Riskin, the MD founders of the...
Thanksgiving…thanks for giving!
It's Thanksgiving long weekend and that got me thinking of "thanks". I'm thankful for all I've received--from people, from animals, from...
Asthma, allergies, skin problems, frequent colds, and more…
Did you know that the lightest organ in your body is your lungs? How often do you think about these very important organs? You are, after all,...