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Braxton P.
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Blog author Braxton Ponder is a Licensed Acupuncturist whose work has taken him around the world,...
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Discounted Professional Grade Vitamins & Supplements
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Physiologics SupplementsNow available using my professional discountI’m pretty excited about this! Physiologics is one of the few nutritional supplements manufacturers t ...
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My Birdfeeder is a Midnight Buffet
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It must be autumn in the mountains. All the creatures seem to be stocking up on calories for the winter, or for a long migration to somewhere warmer. Either way, everybody is ...
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Dieting Doesn’t Work – So What Does?
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Maintaining a healthy weight may be the single best thing we can do for our health. Carrying extra pounds, together with our typically poor diets and low activity levels, is a ...
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Dieting Doesn’t Work – Here are Two Plans that Do
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In my companion article, I discussed the importance of healthy eating and an effective exercise program to fitness, as well as the difficulty of finding good information and a ...
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Flu Vaccinations Revisited
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Influenza season is coming, and with it, the latest recommendations for vaccinations. I have been reluctant to recommend them in the past. As a minimalist regarding pharmaceut ...
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Your Genes Are What You Eat
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Just as some people like to believe their current circumstances were preordained in a previous life, or in an alternate reality, scientifically-minded folks may feel certain t ...
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Folic Acid Fallacies
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By now, you should be suspicious of the idea that pills or supplements offer better nutrition than real food. And yet, I realize the possibility of a magic bullet that would a ...
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Is Eating Organic Worthwhile?
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There’s a new, big meta-study published recently that attempted to evaluate the benefits of organic food. Over 160 studies were initially looked at, but the researchers ...
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Enough, Already, with the Diet Fads
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I frequently get asked about the latest miracle weight loss plan. Most weight loss products are either useless or worse - many contain products design to work as diuretics, pu ...
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An Introduction to Cupping
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There is an interesting treatment technique in Traditional Chinese Medicine known as cupping. It’s not used a lot in the West and not well known here in the States. A fe ...
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Acupuncture Needle?
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Occasionally I get reminded that a lot of people who could benefit greatly from acupuncture are too fearful of needles to even give it a try. Since I spend my day sticking nee ...
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Selling the Flu Shot
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It’s the time of year when all my biomedicine newsletters and other resources start recommending the influenza vaccination. It used to be that infants and the elderly we ...
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Selling the Flu Shot
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Stop Smoking with Acupuncture
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I am frequently asked if acupuncture can help with smoking cessation. The answer is a qualified “Yes.”I have found that acupuncture can be very helpful with the cr ...
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Is Coffee Truly Bad for You?
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Treating Intestinal Parasites with Chinese Herbs
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Acupuncture is perhaps the best known aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in America. But an important branch of TCM is its highly developed approach to herbal medici ...
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Back Pain and Sciatica - Evaluating Your Options
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You’ve been hurting for months. You can’t stay on your feet for more than a few minutes. It hurts to sit for too long. Recently you can’t get a good night&rs ...
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Feeling My Way around a Fiber Festival
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Everybody loves a festival, even the folks who shave furry animals and make things out of their soft natural fibers. My home town hosts an annual Fiber Festival, with up-close ...
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Another Piece of the Dieting Puzzle
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Are you confused by the conflicting reports about low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets? Dieters aren’t the only ones. The researchers who design studies, even when they tr ...
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Burn, Baby, Burn! Or, How to Save Your Skin
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It’s almost that time of year when people lay out to sizzle in the sun, like so many fillets crisping in the frying pan. Others will be out gardening, working or playing ...
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