Posts in Medicine
Latest info on cancer from Johns Hopkins

I’m on the same page as most of this writing by Mike Shunney, T’ai Ji instructor extraordinaire. 16 points below:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3. When the person’s immune system is strong many of the cancer cells will be destroyed and may be prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it may indicate the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies, which can compromise the immune system.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including herbs and supplements will strengthen the immune system…

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Trauma Resilience

After a recent training with folks who have done Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing work, I’m excited to be learning new skills to pass on to patients to help people anchor treatments and get more out of them. The skills are based on the idea that our nervous systems can naturally heal from traumatic events given gentle attention to subtle, internal, felt sense. I love the emphasis on the incremental, gentle approach.

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