by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 29, 2017 | Chinese herbs, Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
Many foodies are keen on splurging on the most recently “discovered” superfood, from achacha to zucchini flowers. Jicama salads, coconut aminos, and turmeric milk tea are all healthy foods. But you can’t grow their ingredients in...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 23, 2016 | Acupuncture, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, mental health, Stress
“I don’t think I was asleep, but I don’t feel like I was ‘here’,” he said when I came back into the treatment room. This is a common theme for people getting acupuncture—though they do often sleep too. So, “where” was he? In a meditative zone. That’s right. You can...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 21, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, depression, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Here I’m going to start with the bad, so I can illustrate the power of something you could call a natural medicine. A study in the 1950s by Dr. Carl Richter involved taking rats and putting them through a forced swim test. Rats can swim, and the rats they used...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 14, 2016 | Food, headache, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
I recently wrote an article, Sweet in the Modern World (pages 7-9), for Medicinal Roots Magazine. As a result, Michael Max, an acupuncturist in the US, contacted me to ask me to join him to talk about sugar’s health effects on his podcast channel, Everyday...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 13, 2016 | Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Life Lessons, mental health, Pain
Pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, disabilities, injuries, and chronic illness. Every day I work with people who are suffering. And the question that sometimes comes up is, “Will I get better?” I believe that our bodies are designed to heal, so yes, I do reply that...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Apr 19, 2016 | Food, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Perhaps you’ve been told to cut back on salt, to limit your intake of saturated fats, and to eat more fibre. But, I think that the most common dietary mistake in our modern world is, for many of us, too much sugar. The problem is that we’re designed to...
