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Gluten Free Recipes for the Holidays!

Here are a couple of my favorite grain free seasonal recipes. This time I will share recipes both created and shared from a favorite source. Both recipes reflect...

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Cooling Foods for Summer Heat

Welcome back, and welcome to summer! As we’re hitting the warmest time of year, let’s look at foods that cool heat. During the summer months, Chinese medicine relaxes...

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Heart Healthy Foods

Here’s another article I wrote for the Tacoma Food Co-op.Welcome back to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nutrition class! In the past few months we have gone through Chinese...

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Eating For Your Chinese Medicine Diagnosis

Hello Everyone! This blog post is the “nutritional follow up” to the previous post about how to diagnosis yourself according to Chinese medicine.  Here is the quiz again...

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What Is Your Chinese Diagnosis?

This article helps you to explore your health from a Chinese medicine perspective.In order to discover your imbalances according to Chinese medicine, we need to root around in,...

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An Experiment With Ketogenics

My most recent nutritional bio-hacking experiment involved a five month personal trial of the Ketogenic diet after listening to some interesting interviews with Dave Asprey, Dominic D’Agostino Phd,...

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Detoxify Your New Year!

Detoxification, what a great New Year’s Resolution!  We offer guidance through our detoxification program at Acupuncture Northwest & Associates.  Read on to get excited about getting those toxins...

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New Year's - A Time For Reflection

Is it just me, or did winter and the holiday season sneak up on us this year? One moment I was blissfully enjoying fall and what seems to...

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Keeping Healthy and Calm through the Holidays with Chinese Nutritional Medicine

I had my first holiday thought today. My first, hmm I wonder what I should get my daughter for Christmas? I wonder if a six year old would like...

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How Much Acupuncture Do You Need With IVF?

Here is a link to a great article written by Lee Hullender Rubin, LAc, DAOM, from Portland, OR.  The article discusses how much acupuncture is appropriate in order...

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A Congee for all Seasons

Congee is a traditional Chinese porridge.  Normally it is made of rice and is eaten with meat, vegetables and/or herbs.   It can be eaten for breakfast and...

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Frozen donor eggs are coming into their own.

A new study by Seattle Reproductive Medicine shows that frozen donor eggs as efficient as fresh!  See Article.

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Increase fertility by reducing BPA exposure

There are studies showing BPA levels may decrease male fertility and increase risk of miscarriage.  BPA is a synthetic estrogen found in the lining of cans and hard...

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Acupuncture Research!

Research suggests that acupuncture helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system’s “relaxation response,” as well as boosting the nervous system’s production of mood-improving endorphins and encephalins.  Here’s the link.

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Healthy Living is Good for Men's DNA

This study is fascinating! Healthy lifestyle positively affected the DNA in men.  Here’s the link.(Thanks Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin)

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Are these eggs already fertilized??

An interesting study has been released showing the adverse effects of BPAs on human eggs, with some of the eggs actually acting like they are already fertilized!  Here’s...

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Exercise and Epigenetics

Recent research shows that exercise affects your epigenetics (changes in gene expression).  Here’s the article!

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Eastern and Western Medicine Together

A great article on the benefits of integrating Eastern and Western medicine to increase the success of ART (assisted reproductive technology)! 

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Boost your fertility with Eastern Medicine!

Here is a great article on how Eastern fertility medicine increases Western fertility medicine outcomes!  But, we knew this already!!Article.

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Male Factor Studies

Male factor infertility often responds well to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Whether it is low count, motility, morphology or another male factor issue, Chinese medicine can often help.Here’s a...

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