Treating menopause naturally: herbs, home remedies and holistic therapies

/ Women's Health

Treating Menopause Naturally Too often we start with the premise that menopause is a medical condition that must be treated medically. Nothing could be further from the truth. Menopause is certainly a change… physically, mentally, spiritually– and can adversely affect quality of life. While some women may need medical intervention, there are less-invasive and lower-risk […]

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Acupressure App May Ease Menstrual Pain, Try These Home Remedies Too!

/ Acupuncture, Massage

Acupressure Eases Menstrual Pain Acupuncture points have long been used to help with menstrual pain. Acupressure eases menstrual pain as well but finding the points on the body in order to apply pressure has been a challenge. Now a new app, AKUD, helps women learn to locate the points. The clinical evidence is promising. The

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Employee wellness education

/ Wellness and Wellbeing

Employee Wellness Education It great to have a benefit… but it is really only a benefit if you know about it and can use it. Enter employee wellness education and accountability.   “Another problem that stops employees from making really important changes is a lack of accountability,” the authors write. “Start employee resource groups so

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Wellness Evidence: Is massage good for you, or does it just feel nice?

/ Holistic Programs, Massage, Wellness and Wellbeing

Wellness Evidence Quite often we come across someone who is interested in a more holistic approach to health. Unfortunately, they hesitate because there is no wellness evidence. Without “evidence” so many therapeutic modalities are dismissed as placebo effect or even just “woo woo” (we’ve actually heard that term). Some systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine or

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Vets Adopt Alternative Treatments for Chronic Pain After Education – Pain Medicine News

/ Holistic Programs

Chronic Pain Education Dean Ornish once said, “Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing.” The authors of the article Vets Adopt Alternative Treatments for Chronic-Pain After Education would certainly agree. When we think about it, chronic pain is not just something that appears during a clinical visit. Chronic pain is on-going so we need tools to

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Most Popular Alternative Healing Therapies

/ Ayurveda, Holistic Programs, Tai Chi, Traditional Chinese Medicine

Popular Alternative Healing Therapies Trying to stay healthy has been with us since the dawn of Humanity. Many popular alternative healing therapies have been around for thousands of years. Traditional Chinese Medicine like acupuncture and herbs started over 2,500 years ago. Ayurvedic Medicine started over 3,000 years ago in India. We exist at a great

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Quit Smoking Naturally

/ Wellness and Wellbeing

Quit Smoking Naturally Helen Sanders of Health Ambition (www.healthambition.com) does a wonderful job in this article to people quit smoking naturally. Helen does not go the “preachy” route that turns off so many people. Rather, she builds a framework that the consumer can use to quit smoking once and for all. Everyone gets addicted to

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The effectiveness of dry-cupping in preventing post-operative nausea and vomiting

/ Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cupping Study It is hard to find a cupping study. There are not many organizations willing to pay for clinical studies for cupping. There are, however, millennia of clinical studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine that do inform the practice. Fortunately, this is a recent randomized controlled trial cupping study. The study is from 2016 and

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Employers Embrace Wellbeing

/ Holistic Programs, Wellness and Wellbeing

Employers Embrace Wellbeing For decades employers have pushed wellness programs on employees in the hopes of controlling costs. In many cases, the wellness program was a watered-down annual wellness visit to check weight, blood pressure, heart rate, smoking, and alcohol consumption. There are countless horror stories where employer wellness plans that focused on biometrics and

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