Our Acupuncture Blog

In our acupuncture clinic, we are constantly looking at safe, effective, natural ways to help patients improve their health. We are excited to announce that after conducting a bunch of research, we have added a Far Infrared Sauna to our office, and are confident that it will provide yet another way to help our patients get and stay healthy.  Read more

A growing field of research into obesity is showing the cause may primarily be a hormonal problem. As it turns out, one of the mechanisms behind acupuncture’s success in treating a wide variety of health conditions is its ability to regulate many of the body’s hormones.  Read more

Low carb diets are better than low fat diets at improving markers for cardivascular disease.  Read more

In our acupuncture clinic, patients are routinely asking us for advice about diet, supplements, and issues surrounding weight loss. One topic that comes up repeatedly is probiotics. Let’s take a look at what probiotics are and what role they play in the body.  Read more

A colleague recently forwarded me a copy of an article which was published in last years Archives of Internal Medicine that very clearly outlines four simple things that anybody can do to decrease their risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer and diabetes.  Read more

Clinically, we have seen that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are usually very effective at treating all types of hot flashes and night sweats. We were excited to see that a new study just published online this week in the Journal of Oncology validated what we have seen clinically.  Read more

Many of our acupuncture patients ask if there are any nutritional supplements that we recommend for their specific condition, and fish oil is clearly the one I recommend most frequently.  Read more

If you answered “eight eight-ounce glasses of water per day” you would certainly have given the answer most commonly cited – you would also be wrong!  Read more

As practitioners of so-called ‘alternative medicine’ it sometimes seems that we are constantly on trial. Whereas newly approved medications, with their often multiple and harmful side effects, are deemed to be ‘proven’ successful, a treatment like acupuncture or herbal medicine, which merely boasts thousands of years of history and millions of successful patients, is considered “unproven”.  Read more

Working with acupuncture and herbal medicine, as I do, gives me the opportunity to treat patients with a wide variety of symptoms. One issue we treat repeatedly at our practice is skin conditions.  Read more