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Many common injuries can be avoided or alleviated by adjusting your computer workspace to be a little more ergonomically correct. The folks at Macworld have posted an article detailing ways you can make your workstation less of a pain in the neck (or back, or wrist, etc). The article covers proper positioning of monitor, keyboard, mouse, and chair.

View full article at Macworld [via Lifehacker]

We carry many supplements here at the office, but the most popular by far is the Life Extension Mix multivitamin capsule. This vitamin is probably the highest quality multi on the market, and at our price of only $75 for 490 capsules, the best value as well! The recommended serving size is 14 capsules a day, but most of our patients take 6 per day. Our patients swear by this vitamin, too, recommend it to friends and family, and say that they’ve never had a vitamin increase their energy level and overall health like this one does.

Read more about this supplement on the Life Extension Foundation website, and look over the list of ingredients below:

Life Extension Mix Capsules

Many of the patients at this office are 50 or older, and naturally worry about the effects that aging has on their body, particularly their eyesight. Below is an excerpt from an article on protecting your eyes from age-related damage:

“By the age of 65 years, nearly one-third of adults will experience age-related damage to their eyesight. The leading cause of age-related central blindness is macular degeneration, which can rob us of the ability to read and see fine details. Cataracts are a frequent cause of damage to the crystalline lens of the eye, and can result in blindness.

Age-associated vision loss is not inevitable. In fact, nutrients like lutein, zeaxanthin, and meso-zeaxanthin provide critical antioxidant and light-filtering properties to the eye lens and macula—structures essential for clear vision. Not only do these nutrients guard against vision loss—growing evidence suggests they also protect against other ailments such as cancer and cognitive decline.

Although deteriorating vision is often accepted as an inevitable part of aging, we’re learning today that this does not have to happen. A remarkable number of clinical studies are teaching us how the most common causes of age-related vision loss can be prevented—if we take prompt action.

Scientists are finding that deficiencies in certain plant-derived compounds can cause vision to degrade over time. To understand just how these nutrients produce their benefits, let’s take a look at how humans usually lose their vision with age. Two major culprits are age-related macular degeneration and cataracts. Both are potentially preventable if early action is taken. Nutrients like meso-zeaxanthin may even help reverse the most common form of blindness afflicting aging eyes.”

To read the rest of this article by Julius G. Goepp, MD, visit the Life Extension Foundation!

Many of our patients ask about the possible dangers of cell phone radiation. Below you’ll find some cell phone facts from the Life Extension Foundation:

• Originally developed for the Department of Defense, cell phones devices were never tested for safety. They entered the marketplace due to a regulatory loophole.
• Questions about cell phone safety arose in the early 1990s, when a businessman filed a lawsuit alleging that cell phones caused his wife’s death due to brain cancer.
• To address the questions surrounding cell phone safety, the cell phone industry set up a non-profit organization, Wireless Technology Research (WTR). Dr. George Carlo was appointed to head WTR’s research efforts.
• Under Dr. Carlo’s direction, scientists found that cell phone radiation caused DNA damage, impaired DNA repair, and interfered with cardiac pacemakers.
• European research confirmed Dr. Carlo’s findings. Studies suggest that cell phone radiation contributes to brain dysfunction, tumors, and potentially to conditions such as autism, attention deficit disorder, neurodegenerative disease, and behavioral and psychological problems.
• Dr. Carlo brought safety information about cell phones to the public through his book, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, and by creating the Safe Wireless Initiative and the Mobile Telephone Health Concerns Registry.
• The best protection against cell phone radiation is keeping a safe distance.
• Always use a headset to minimize exposure to harmful cell phone radiation.

According to the company website, Electro-Meridian Imaging, or EMI, measures the 24 meridian points on the body and automatically enters, graphs, and analyzes those points to help diagnose and treat the patient. Below is a screenshot of an EMI graph.

We utilize the EMI technology here at our office prior to some acupuncture sessions to fully asses the energy flow throughout the body. Follow-up EMI analyses demonstrate how levels are corrected through acupuncture and chiropractic adjustments.

This is a very simple cleanse that anyone can do. Use it if you’re having liver problems, gallstones, or just for general health.

What you’ll need:

• Granny Smith apples to juice or organic, unpasteurized apple juice
• Carrot juice
• Olive oil
• Lemon juice

Instructions: Each day, for 2-3 days, drink juice made from Granny Smith apples, made in your own juicer if possible. Drink as much as you need to keep the hunger pangs at bay. If you need a change of taste, supplement this with carrot juice. Also, continue to drink plenty of water. You may take any vitamins or supplements you’re on, too. These will be the only things you put in your body. NO FOOD!

At the end of the third day, mix 1/2 cup of fresh-squeezed lemon juice with 1/2 cup organic olive oil. Drink this down. Yes, drink the oil. Lie down on your right side, and go ahead and take a nap or go to bed. When you wake up, you will go to the bathroom. Have fun!

A unique opportunity to save countless lives and billions of dollars is being overlooked by the medical community. This technique increases blood flow to the heart, strengthens the circulation, and offers a proven way to treat heart disease in lieu of stents or bypass surgery.

Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a safe, non-invasive procedure that can overcome heart disease in two ways—by passively exercising the heart to strengthen the vascular system and by targeting inflammation, the underlying culprit in damaged blood vessels that inhibits blood flow.

More than 100 studies have demonstrated its overwhelming effectiveness and unquestioned safety in improving blood flow in patients with heart disease. Some experts are calling for the EECP procedure to become first-line therapy for heart disease, long before surgery or other invasive procedures are used. Approved by the FDA for chronic stable angina, cardiogenic shock, congestive heart failure, as well as during a heart attack, EECP not only saves lives but is also considerably cheaper and safer than traditional invasive procedures such as angioplasty and coronary stents, which continue to be the mainstay of therapy. Medicare even pays for it!

For patients with some forms of heart disease, enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive, high-tech, low-risk procedure, performed on an outpatient basis, which offers a remarkable reprieve from some of the potentially disabling symptoms of stable angina and coronary heart disease. Patients lucky enough to be offered this underused therapy may experience changes in their conditions that range from significant pain relief to renewed mobility and energy, to a rekindled libido. They may also literally gain a new lease on life, simultaneously avoiding the dangers of coronary bypass surgery while buying enough time to reverse the heart disease that brought them to this crossroads in the first place. But chances are, unless you inquire about it, you’ll never even be told this option exists.

To see the complete article by Dale Kiefer, visit the Life Extension website

The granddaughter of one of our patients was diagnosed with a brain tumor this past January. The little girl’s dad has put together a website to help raise money for research on her particular kind of tumor. Here’s an excerpt from the website:

On January 7, 2008, our lives were changed forever when our 10 year old daughter Emily was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in her left thalamus. Emily’s brain tumor, a pediatric low grade astrocytoma (PLGA) is the most common type of childhood brain tumor and yet, has historically received little, if any, dedicated funding or research. Consequently, there are few treatment options available, and those that are available are invasive, toxic and mostly ineffective.

Emily is determined to change all this and she has set her sights on raising $1 million to help fund PLGA dedicated research by December 31st, 2008. We, her family, have partnered with The Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity (founded in August 2007) to help raise money for dedicated PLGA research with a goal of developing kinder, gentler and more effective treatments, AND a cure, for the thousands of PLGA children around the world.

Please visit Emily’s website, www.colorforacure.com. You can buy a pixel of color for just one dollar. Each dollar - every cent - goes to PLGA research, and each pixel is added to a picture which is gradually completed as the goal of a million dollars is approached. You can make a difference in a child’s life, and make sure you tell a friend!

Our post on the Organ Clock, or Horary Points, continues to be our most-visited post! Since there seems to be so much interest in this topic, here is a list of links, all related to the organ clock. Please leave your comments, suggestions for other sites about the organ clock, or suggestions for future posts!

Acupressure for Daylight Savings Time and Jet Lag

7 keys to understanding the Classical Chinese Medicine concept of organs

Horary Clock

Learning how to keep life in balance

The Time of Our Lives

The Ying Qi Cycle

Understanding the Horary Cycle of Healing

Horary Clock / 24 Hour Clock