Displaying items by tag: Healing Ways
Exploring Intermittent Fasting
Tips and Benefits for Improved Health
Fasting has long played a role in major religions, but we did not begin to understand it from a scientific standpoint until Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese...
Lung Maintenance 101
Natural Strategies to Breathe Easier
Most people inhale about 22,000 times per day without realizing it, but for the more than 34 million Americans living with lung diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, taking a breath is often...
The Healing Arts of Qigong and Tai Chi
Well-Being Through Intentional Movements
Qigong is more than a modern wellness practice. It’s a 5,000-year-old Chinese healing art steeped in tradition. At its core, qigong revolves around the concept of qi (pronounced “chee”), considered to be the life-force energy that...
Traditional World Healing Wisdom
Returning to Our Roots
With time-tested wisdom and natural roots, traditional and Indigenous medicine has been an integral resource for centuries in communities around the world. According to the World Health Organization, 88 percent of...
Traveling With Purpose
Nine Destinations for Spiritual Enlightenment
Throughout history, humans have embarked on pilgrimages in pursuit of wealth, good fortune, divine intervention, spiritual enlightenment and other blessings. These journeys could be considered the earliest manifestations of...
Medical Tourism
Navigating the Risks and Rewards
Many Americans have experienced sticker shock upon receiving a medical or dental bill, whether or not they have health insurance. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States, patients are grabbing their passports and turning to medical tourism—the act of crossing borders to obtain quality medical care at...
Acne Antidote
Topical and Dietary Roadmap for Healthy Skin
Whether it’s a wedding day or job interview, nothing puts a damper on the moment like an outbreak of acne. It can be embarrassing and compromise self-confidence, but natural treatments and lifestyle modifications can keep...
Lifelong Learning
Benefits of Being the Forever Student
It’s never too late to take an evening drawing class at the local high school, learn a language with the help of an app or get one-on-one tutoring from a piano instructor. Adults of any age can find personal and professional benefits when they...
Keeping Eyes Sharp
A Holistic Approach to Vision Health
As the windows to the world, our eyes are sensory organs that work overtime. They allow us to take in light, see what is before us and send information for the brain to process. While regular eye exams are...
Solving Stress
Holistic Tips From Lifestyle Doctors
Medicine is changing as a new class of doctors endeavors to treat the whole person rather than the symptoms of disease, helping their patients achieve optimal health with lifestyle changes, medicine, herbs, supplements and modalities tailored to...