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 […]

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 […]

Water – Health Magic & Mysteries

balance of healing seen in a Chinese garden

Daoist texts, like the Dao De Jing (Classic on the Dao), refer to the nature of water in the environment as a guide for our lives. The images are crisp and portray an entity that has both a Yin aspect, when static – placid, and contained by forms – and a Yang (energetic) aspect when […]