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Lower Stress Hormones with Acupuncture
Lower Stress Hormones with Acupuncture How Acupuncture Reduces the Negative Impact of Chronic Stress Cortisol is a hormone that our body makes in response to stress. It's helpful and necessary to respond to acute stressors in our life like running from the police or tackling other shoppers on Black Friday. But, as you've likely read, we operate in a state of fight or flight [...]
LipoLean Injections are Here!
LipoLean Injections are Here! Amaluna is now carrying a Lipotropic B-complex injection. This combination of vitamins and amino acids helps the body metabolize fat, detoxify, and protects cells from aging! What's in LipoLean? Leucine – reduces cravings for snacking and increases energy. Leucine helps you shed subcutaneous fat (just under the skin) and stabilizes blood sugar – essential for those with type 2 diabetes. L-Carnitine – helps [...]
Feeling Lonely? What You Need to Know
Feeling Lonely? What You Need to Know We don’t talk about loneliness enough. I mean we do in a removed abstract way, but how often do people you know discuss personally feeling lonely? It’s not “cool” to feel lonely. We associate loneliness with losers and outcasts. If we are feeling lonely, we think it means we don’t belong. And we are wired to value [...]
Listening to Your Inner No for Better Health
Listening to Your Inner No for Better Health I write about topics and techniques I have not mastered or perfected. The medicine is in the writing. The writing makes something gel, and I find I'm better able to integrate the skill into my life. Sometimes, I write about stuff after I've learned the lesson, created the habit, or mastered the skill, but often I'm writing as [...]
How Acupuncture Will Change Your Life
How Acupuncture Will Change Your Life The most profound thing I or anyone can do for your health is to help you experience a state of relaxation, care, and love, and then support you in recreating that experience more often in whatever ways work for your life. My chosen tool happens to be acupuncture, and it's incredibly effective. There are infinite other ways to tap [...]
Boulder is Spraying Pesticides for Mosquitoes, How to Opt Out
Boulder is Spraying Pesticides to Control Mosquitoes I recently found out that Boulder has trucks that drive around neighborhoods in Boulder city, Longmont, Lafayette, Erie, Louisville, and Superior spraying toxic pesticides into the air in an attempt to control the mosquitoes. Permethrin is the pesticide currently being sprayed for mosquito population control. Effects of Permethrin Exposure This information is from the Insecticide Fact Sheet in the [...]