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 | 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...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 10, 2016 | Acupuncture, Arthritis, Back Pain, Bone Health, fertility, Stress, Traditional Chinese Medicine
When patients come in to address particular organ health, they most often mention their heart, their liver, their lungs, or the various organs of their digestive system and reproductive system, but rarely does someone ask me about their kidneys. Your kidneys do a...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 29, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Heart health, mental health, Traditional Chinese Medicine
This is a leap year, so February 29th is kind of like a bonus day. Do you often think that you don’t have enough time to do the things you need to do or want to do? Well, this year you have an extra 24 hours, so what will you do? Here are some healthy...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 30, 2016 | Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, health care, research, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Health in 2015 Review I like to look back to review the most stand-out news in health in 2015. Of course, for me, a lot of my remembrance about health news is particular to either Traditional Chinese Medicine or nutrition. Remember the day that you were told...
