Alternative Medicine

But I’m Not Flexible Enough For Yoga!

Every day we are faced with hurdles and obstacles. Taking your first shaky steps into something new and wonderful like asana practice might be the most amazing health exploration of your lifetime.

People Produce Endocannabinoids – Similar To Compounds Found In Marijuana – That Are Critical To Many Bodily Functions

Deciphering the role of endocannabinoids is still an emerging area of health research. Certainly much more research is needed to decipher their role in regulating different functions in the body.

Simple Stretching Offers Benefits Far Beyond Fitness

Incorporating stretching into your daily routine is a great way to improve flexibility, reduce the risk of injury, and reach your physical fitness goals. Be sure to warm up before stretching.

Trying Not To Be Sick

It’s important to point out that we cannot always avoid being sick, no matter how good our lifestyle choices may be. Being ill is an opportunity to see where you have gotten out of harmony with the truest needs of your life.

Six Reasons To Take Up Yoga During Pregnancy

While you may need to modify your exercise routine slightly during pregnancy, physical activity is safe, and in fact recommended, when you’re expecting a baby. One option you might consider is prenatal yoga.

CBD Is Not A Cure-All – Here’s What Science Says About Its Real Health Benefits

As a natural product, CBD is still acting as a drug – much like aspirin, acetaminophen or even a cancer chemotherapy. Health care providers simply need to better understand the risks or benefits.

Can You Protect Yourself Against Covid With Vitamin D? Emerging Research Suggests So

There is emerging evidence that vitamin D3 might have two effects preventing the COVID-19 infection itself. Vitamin D3 reduces the number of ACE2 receptor proteins on the cells of the lining of your respiratory tract, and this may protect against the initial infection.

Conscious Energy Healing

What is amazing is that through manipulation of our subtle energy bodies, we can easily enter this state of consciousness associated with the superconscious mind. We can receive information that is stunning in its vastness and operate in a realm where what we consider magical or mystical becomes the ordinary.

Take Action To Oppose New Holistic Healthcare Licensing Bills And Support Safe Harbor Holistic Practitioner Protection

Baystate users of complementary and alternative medicine are again faced with both challenges and opportunities to protect our access to one of the largest networks of affordable holistic healthcare practitioners in the country.

Kava: Mythical Origins And Epic Coevolution

Kava is a plant that if prepared properly, from the correct species, relieves anxiety and opens certain areas of perception, but must be reproduced by humans.

My Pain-Body Solution

I had been living with pain for over a year and a half, seen seventeen different medical doctors. The only solutions I’d been offered were some sort of invasive procedure but that was more like a bandage than a cure. Was there no middle ground?

Snow Shovelling: Healthy Exercise Or Deadly Activity?

Shovelling snow is an activity that will have to get done at some point each winter and it’s important to recognize that it is more than just a chore: it’s a vigorous activity similar to running and a great way to be active.

How Needles Chased My Blues Away

For no apparent reason at the age of 36, both my emotional state and menstrual cycle became erratic and unpredictable. PMS symptoms were making me miserable and my menstrual cycle was managing my life.

The Tragedy Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Pediatrician Explains How To Protect Your Baby

We want every baby to sleep on their back on a surface that is firm and flat, which means not inclined, and safety-approved. So, ideally a crib, a bassinet, a playpen or another product that is approved by the CPSC.

Local Spa Rebuilds With Community Support After Fire In Grafton

Truth Organic Spa began immediately receiving donations, phone calls, emails, and encouragement from their loyal clientele, other local businesses, and even selfless strangers who had become aware of the challenge this small business was faced with to get up and running again.

Vitamin B12 Deficiency Is A Common Health Problem That Can Have Serious Consequences – But Doctors Often Overlook It

B12 is scarce in the diet, and it is found only in foods from animal sources. Without adequate B12 in the body, overall health and quality of life are negatively affected.

They Don’t Come As Pills, But Try These 6 Underprescribed Lifestyle Medicines For A Better, Longer Life

There are six domains of lifestyle medicine: whole food plant-based eating, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, addiction reduction or elimination, and positive psychology and social connection.

Cannabis Holds Promise For Pain Management, Reducing The Need For Opioid Painkillers – A Neuropharmacology Expert Explains How

An interesting trend has developed: Opioid emergency room visits drop by nearly 8% and opioid prescriptions are modestly lower in states where marijuana is legalized.