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The other common deterrent to peaceful slumber is the inability to fall asleep, otherwise known as sleep-onset insomnia. This is a multifactorial problem, chock…
Read more about Trouble Falling Asleep? Remedying Sleep-Onset Insomnia
Cancer formation is the planting of a seed caused by unmitigated exposure to carcinogens. Seldom discussed are all the contributing factors—known as proximate causes—that…
Read more about Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health
Magnesium is an essential nutrient that you may be lacking. It is a cofactor in hundreds of enzymatic processes in the body, yet many…
Traveling late at night when a craving hits? No problem as the nearest gas station has your belly and brain covered with an assortment…
It had been a long six years. Following remission of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis that filled my abdominal cavity with tumors, I still suffered…
Read more about My Experience with the Clear Passage Approach to Treating Abdominal Adhesions
The diagnosis of prostate cancer was a bad dream that Jack couldn’t wake up from. At age 53, he was working overtime to prepare…
Read more about The Future of Cancer Therapy: Adaptive Therapy
Our family doesn’t watch much TV, but the Olympics were airing soon and we live far enough out in a rural area that an…
What does it mean to obey God regarding health? Is an ethic for living a balanced life detailed in the holy book of each…
We live in a time where the medical-industrial complex and related regulatory agencies are providing medical indulgences to citizens of the Western world. Rather…
Being connected to a universal stream of consciousness may sound as unattainable as it is mystical, but to do so is an inherent feature…
Read more about Breathing in Spirit: How to Recognize and Cultivate Inspiration
What is intuition and how do we experience it? This is a question I’ve thought a lot about as a practitioner of traditional Chinese…
Read more about The Rain Man Effect: How to Recognize and Hone Intuition
It was an epic fail. The full force of an impact that should have been displaced by two hips, thighs, and legs, was instead…