Category Archives: General Health

The key to cancer prevention may well be maintaining an alkaline pH level

“No disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment.” German biochemist Dr. Otto Heinrich Warburg, 1931 Nobel prize winner for the discovery of cancer, and one of the twentieth century’s leading cell biologists, discovered that the root cause of … Continue reading

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Stress: Portrait of a Killer

Most of my clients remark on just how relaxed they feel after a Jin Shin Jyutsu treatment. “I enter into this state of complete calm,” remarked one of them recently. Indeed, Jin Shin Jyutsu is uniquely suited to return the … Continue reading

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Study Disproves CDC’s Primary Justification for Vaccination

It’s Winter, time to get your flu shot, right? Not so fast. The debate over immunity/vaccinations and vaccine safety/injury goes on.  There is enough evidence out there to promote pushing for the right to make decisions about vaccinations for yourself … Continue reading

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Lawsuit Launched as Testing Finds Cancer-Causing Chemical in Nearly 100 Hair Care and Personal Care Products

The CEH (Center for Environmental Health in CA) filed a lawsuit in California against four companies that sell products containing DEA, and the nonprofit has sent legal notices to more than 100 other companies that produce and/or sell cocamide DEA-tainted … Continue reading

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Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes

Here is a fascinating article from Discover Magazine on behavioral epigenetics, a brand-new field in neuroscience. It is surprising many, including geneticists, who until recently didn’t believe that epigenetic changes could be passed down from parent to child, one generation after … Continue reading

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Health Care System Falls Short on Stress Management

As we know by now, therapeutic bodywork like massage therapy and Jin Shin Jyutsu does an excellent job at lowering stress, anxiety, tension, and pain, while increasing energy levels, quality of sleep, and overall well-being. But according to a recent … Continue reading

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How it feels to have a stroke

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

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Oregon’s Medicaid Experiment Represents A ‘Defining Moment’

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

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

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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