Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science

As a culture, we often ignore the fundamental causes of health and illness, and focus instead on how to fund drugs and surgery. Our health-care system really pays more attention to disease than to health. Of the $2.1 trillion spent in 2008 on medical care, ninety-five cents of every dollar was used to treat disease, not prevent it.4 • It is far eas

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When we are stressed out, we tend to clench parts or all of our bodies, constricting the natural flow of qi until it stagnates, leading to tissue, organ, or system disorders. In my experience, stress is at the root of most of women’s health concerns. It sets off hormonal imbalance and causes qi to stagnate, conditions which can lead to everything f

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In the study, people who held a warm beverage for ten to fifteen seconds or evaluated the warmth from a heating pad were more likely to “warm” to strangers and share with them than people who held a cold drink or evaluated the effect of a cold pack. And not only was the “warm” test group more open and generous with strangers, they perceived the str

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