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5 Easy Ways to De-Stress Your Mind

I recently got into a car accident and totaled my car.  It was snowing out and the roads were bad, slippery and a white wash of a mess.  I must have been driving too fast because I was stressed about being late for my next patient and then boom!  I hit a pole.  I realized that the last few months I had been taxing my body, stressed since Christmas time and have had very low energy.  I had given up doing yoga, totally forgotten about meditation, and was more focused on managing my family and their activities, my work, and my work out at the gym.  Basically, I had let the ball go on my real health and I had let the stress of life take over.  I realized I had to get back on track and DE-STRESS.

Acupuncture for MS Symptoms

Here is an article I wrote for Associate Neurologists of Southern Connecticut about using acupuncture to help with Multiple Sclerosis symptoms. Thanks for reading!

Simple strategies for relieving headaches naturally

Headaches can be an annoyance and can prevent you from performing your best. From my experience, people who get headaches the most usually fall into two groups.  One group includes people who simply use their brain a lot.  They’re lawyers, teachers, writers, worriers, busy mothers, did I exclude anyone?  They’re people who put overtime in their thought process. So it shouldn’t seem strange that they get headaches. It’s like an athlete who overuses a muscle. That muscle goes into spasms and wants a massage.  The other group of people that seem to get frequent headaches seem to have been in an accident of some sort, maybe having experienced a concussion or some kind of post traumatic stress disorder.

Do You Know Where Your Estrogen Is?

DIY Organic Honey Mask and Acupressure Facial Massage

During these cold winter months in New England, the cold, wind and snow can take it’s toll on your skin.  What’s better than to give yourself a weekly mask and daily facial massage to make sure your skin stays hydrated and firm.  Also, it’s so nice to use an organic mask that you can make fresh from ingredients in your own kitchen!

Detox your body….Detox your mind!

If you’ve had a busy holiday, I’m sure you’re ready for a detox.  I am!  And since it’s the first day of the new year, there’s no better time to think about your mind and your energy.  They say your gut is your second brain, and if your gut is cluttered with sugar, processed foods, and alcohol, your brain may be foggy too.  To achieve your new year’s resolutions, meditating on your goals can be easier if your gut is clean and healthy.

Dangers of Overscreening

Working at St. Vincent’s Cancer Hospital heightens my awareness of how one appointment to the doctor’s office can change the whole course of your life.  Recently, Joan Rivers died of a complication after a routine endoscopy.  Endoscopies are important because they check for diseases like gastrointestinal cancer and Barrett’s esophagus, which can lead to esophageal adenocarcinoma, a cancer that can often be fatal. [1]  How often, though, do these types of investigative procedures lead to worse outcomes than the actual disease itself?  In Joan River’s case, she may have opted for the alternative, a longer life!

Natural Ways to Treat the Common Cold for Kids

The common cold to most moms must be what the paparazzi are like to celebrities. Around every public corner, there lurks the potential of being attacked by an opportunist. Children, especially toddlers, are constantly being bombarded with new germs that can cause something as simple as a common cold to something more serious like RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus). Moms know all too well that the personality of a cold is different for every child and different at every age. Until a child is six years of age, the ear canal has not matured, leaving children more susceptible to ear infections, which translates to antibiotics and potentially, chronic ear infections.

4 Essential Supplements for Children

Remember those Flinstones vitamins we used to get as kids? They seemed more like candy than anything else. Now with depleted soil, processed foods and picky eaters all working against the nourishment of our children, supplements seem more necessary than ever before, especially for this over scheduled generation that we expect so much from. Since stories of girls starting their menses at the tender age of 9 began, we have been warned to only give our children organic milk and organic foods, but what should we be giving our children as far as supplements? Some pediatricians say a children’s multivitamin is enough while others say that food should be supplying our children with the vitamins and minerals they need.

Acupuncture and Herbs for Migraines

Many of my patients use acupuncture for migraines and headaches and it seems that celebrities are also using the natural medicine.  Gwen Stefani has been using acupuncture while she was pregnant to get rid of her migraines.  A source told RadarOnline:  “Gwen started doing acupuncture to get rid of severe migraine headaches that she gets during her pregnancies.  All moms are doing it.  She loves it and shares it with all her mommy friends because of how much it has helped her on so many levels.”