For a project on HRV and immune response, I will be referencing a few articles with little commentary. It is more for reference for future posts. Gastroenterology. 2013 Jan;144(1):36-49. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.10.003. Epub 2012 Oct 12. Brain-gut interactions in inflammatory bowel
I never could get myself to take that Calcium. February 25, 2013, 5:00 pm No Vitamin D and Calcium for Older Bones By ANAHAD O’CONNOR A government task force formally recommended on Monday that healthy postmenopausal women avoid taking
I’ve been looking at HRV (Heart Rate Variability- a measure of your stress levels) and Acupuncture for longer than I care to admit. Arianna Huffington is launching some sort of app that looks at your HRV and then sends you
More like this please. As readers of the blog may know, I heartily endorse studies that compare dose responses when it comes to acupuncture instead of comparisons to sham. This study, though not an acupuncture study, compares dosing of TENS
From the “Follow the Money” files. Try to read the whole article. While none of this is super surprising, the scope and degree of profit and lobbying, IS astonishing. I didn’t include it here, but the article begins with the
Spent the morning reading “Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb, a mathematical trader by profession, but an essayist and “intellectual.” His book outlines how difficult it is to override our innate, evolutionary tendency to make assumptions and draw conclusions that leave
This shows that repetitive electroacupuncture at P5-P6 is better than manual acupuncture in increasing metenkephalin, thought to be key in the lowering of blood pressure with acupuncture. I heard Longhurst a year ago and he said that LI 11-10 is
A treatment using a single ear tack placed on Yin Tang for 20 minutes before surgery (perhaps an ear tack was used to avoid issues with the needle falling out with patient movement) compared to a sham acupuncture point,
Two articles, one from the SF chronicle and one from the NY Times. Both underscore the problem with a purely market based health model. The Chronicle article discusses a study which exposes the increase in cancer recurrences because patients
Recent studies have shown that adenosine increases with acupuncture, suggesting that acupuncture works partially through adenosine A1 receptors. This study suggests that the response is specific to acupoints and requires rotation of the needle. This study looks at the response
