Category Archives: General Health

How it feels to have a stroke

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Feel Integrated

In her amazing TED talk from 2008, Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who was trained at Harvard University, tells her powerful and emotional story of her stroke and what it felt like. As it happened — as she felt her … Continue reading →

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Oregon’s Medicaid Experiment Represents A ‘Defining Moment’

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Feel Integrated

Let’s put the “Health” back in Health Care! Oregon’s Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a former emergency room doctor, has convinced the federal government that he has a way to make Medicaid treatment better, and cheaper, by completely changing … Continue reading →

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Gene Map of Body’s Microbes Is New Health Tool

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Feel Integrated

For any of us who still believe that humans can keep themselves separate from nature (or the universe) and the consequences that follow, the recent publication of the gene map of the body’s microbes may help to open your mind. … Continue reading →

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In support of the claim of the body’s self-healing capacity

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Feel Integrated

In a surprising development, research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology shows that a combination of the human body’s astounding capacity to heal itself and modern-medicine neurological stimuli may bring new hope for future rehabilitation in humans with severe … Continue reading →

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A long view on Health Care: Prevention

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Feel Integrated

How much longer until the medical community wakes up to the many medical and economical benefits of prevention? For now, this shortened interview in the NYTimes with Dana Goldman might offer a ray of hope. Goldman, director of the Schaeffer … Continue reading →

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Stand Up and walk around, even just for 2 minutes, every 20 minutes

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Feel Integrated

This is the recommendation of a recent broadcast of Fresh Air on NPR – and I’ve been saying this to my clients for quite some time, especially those of you who sit at a computer all day.  New York Times … Continue reading →

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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Google Talk on Mindfulness

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Feel Integrated

Multi-tasking is not all that it’s cracked up to be. As a parent, I learned to re-focus my attention when I have time to spend with my daughter, to be mindful of this delicious but fleeting time in our lives. … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: ‘Oil Pulling Therapy’

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Feel Integrated

You have never heard of oil pulling therapy?  Neither had I, until about two years ago.  My gums would bleed periodically, and my dentist told me I had the “gums of a 50 year old man,” and I therefore needed … Continue reading →

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Massage Benefits Are More Than Skin Deep

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Feel Integrated

In this article in the New York Times’ Vital Signs column, researchers found that volunteers who received Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that … Continue reading →

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New studies caution against too much vigorous exercise

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Feel Integrated

Although exercise is good for you and reduces your cardiovascular risk by a factor of three, too much vigorous exercise, such as marathon running, seems to actually increase your cardiac risk by seven, according to a study presented at the … Continue reading →

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