Belching, Burping, and Bloating? Maybe It’s SIBO By Dr. Patrick Giammarise If you find that you are belching, burping, bloating, or feel as if you have a ball stuck in your throat that you can’t swallow, you may have SIBO. What’s SIBO? This is the acronym that doctors use for small intestine bacterial overgrowth.… Read more »
Designer Perception By Redtail It seems that the leading edges of science agree with the wise fool “Nasrudin,” who appears in Sufi teaching tales making illogical observations such as “If I hadn’t believed it, I wouldn’t have seen it with my own eyes.” Though conventional wisdom insists that seeing is believing, scientific evidence suggests it… Read more »
Yoga, Essential Oils, and Energy Medicine What Do They Have in Common … Besides Durham, California? By Mikaela Hengst They all have a similar purpose: to bring balance to the body. Used individually each modality can be extremely effective in bringing about a balance to the inner and outer landscape of our lives.… Read more »
The Causes of Alcohol Dependence (Addiction-It May Not Be What You Think!) By Dr. Mark Light of Chico Integrative Health A wide range of issues are related to alcohol dependence: binge drinking, disturbing changes in personality, drunken driving, liver failure, disease, and death. Some believe that drinking problems are the result of a character flaw… Read more »
A Pathway to an Addiction-Free Society By Elena Tonetti What does addiction have to do with birth? In one of the previous issues in this magazine, in my article “Limbic Imprint,” I’ve described the mechanism of the correlation between the way we were born and the quality of our emotional lives as adults. Limbic imprint… Read more »
By Dr. Patrick Giammarise, DC It’s no secret that as our ages change, our bodies also change. Some of these changes we can see on the outside as we age, such as changes to our hairlines, waistlines, and facial lines. Other changes occur on the inside that we can’t see, but we sure notice a… Read more »
By Jim “Redtail” Collins A woman in one of my workshops recently declared that the so-called “secret” law of attraction, particularly the notion that affirming your desires will cause them to manifest, is complete “rubbish.” “It hasn’t worked for me,” she complained. “I have been visualizing and repeating affirmations every day for months and nothing… Read more »
Adrian Baume, L.Ac., MSTCM What Is the Extracellular Matrix and What Is It Made of? Many of the initial discoveries and research into the extracellular matrix (we’ll abbreviate it as ECM) came from Alfred Pischinger and were published in his book, The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation: Basis for a Holistic Biological Medicine. The extracellular… Read more »
Five Interactive Emotions By Michael Turk Several years ago my office manager slumped into work with red-rimmed eyes on a gray, rainy day and announced, “I just came from the vet. Snoopy’s been hit by a car and he’s critical.” She sobbed, “I can’t work, but I hate to leave you in the lurch. I’m… Read more »
Relieving Headaches and TMJ with Craniosacral Therapy By Anasuya Basil Twenty years ago I was standing at a busy intersection in San Francisco. The light turned green, I saw the “walk” icon, and I stepped off the curb. “Watch out!” someone yelled, just before the impact. My vision darkened and then slowly refocused on the… Read more »
