Aging, Building, Retaining Muscle

Overcoming Sarcopenia: Building & Retaining Muscle

As we all know, aging occurs at the cellular level, by evolutionary processes apparently beyond our control. However, we all also know that events, both planned and unplanned, and lifestyle choices, e.g., patterns of poverty, life long racial-ethnocentric discrimination, and the indulgent consumption of “tasty” or rich foods, play […]

Ear & Scalp Acupuncture Treatments for Improved Mental Health

Ear & Scalp Acupuncture Treatments Improve Mental Health

The holiday season, and the shorter days, can add to the suffering of people challenged by chronic and resistant mental health concerns, e.g., Stress, Anxiety, and Depression.

A variety of drugs have been prescribed to manage these conditions, (e.g., SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, benzodiazepines) but their “convenience” has […]

Environmental or External Pathogenic Influences

Environmental or External Pathogenic Influences (EPIs)

All traditional systems of medicine consider our relationship with the environment that we live in to be a key aspect of our personal and societal health. From a thermodynamic (biophysics) perspective, all organisms can be thought of as autonomous Systems embedded within their Environment. To me, coming from a […]

Linking Duality & Complementarity

Duality is the basis for all created languages. Consider, for example, the need to communicate – with another person. Then there is the language of the binary, the 0’s and 1’s that are the heart of all machine languages, known as the “bit”, short for binary digit.

Complementarity, on the other hand, is more complex. […]

Stretching – The First Exercises

Asian perspectives on healing recognize Movement as a key aspect of healthy living. With age, what we did naturally as children can become an involved process, one that forces us to reflect at length on choices, and expensive. It does not have to be that way.

Work, in industrialized societies, keeps us immobile, while also […]