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Exercise and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Fitness Explored - Neuroscience News Exercise stimulates neurogenesis, primarily in the hippocampus, influencing memory and learning while increasing key mood-regulating neurotransmitters.

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The brain-gut connection

What TCM has known for centuries: ‘new’ brain-gut connection Recent research has found that bacteria in the gut can affect people’s mental state, leading to mood, cognition and behavioural problems. But in TCM, the link between the gut and all of the body’s organs has long been recognised.

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There's More To Acupuncture Than Getting Stuck With Tiny Needles For runners specifically, it can come with a serious performance boost.

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6 Reasons To Try Acupuncture, Because Anxiety Relief Is Only The Beginning Acupuncture is one of those things people either swear by or are skeptical about. For example, while I personally wouldn’t think lying on a table while someone sticks needles into my skin would be all that relaxing, evidently, one of the most common…

Happy Summer Solstice!

In Chinese medicine, this is a fantastic time to address chronic health concerns with the Yang energy at the peak of summer (eg. this energy typically relates to things such as light, the sun, masculine energy, physical activity, warmth, and social engagement) in preparation for the following change in seasons and subsequent aggravation of “cold-based” symptoms into the winter months when Yin once again becomes predominant (eg. darkness, the moon, feminine energy, mental activity, cold and inner contemplation).

Heat therapy and moxibustion forms
the other half of zhen jiu/ acumoxa (and is just as much a part of traditional
Acupuncture therapy). When we employ methods such as acupuncture to
regulate the nervous system and improve circulation, and heat from moxibustion to warm up the body and boost the immune system; as well as encourage proper breathing, rest, movement, diet and proper mental state, our bodies are given the ability to operate at their full potential.

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Summer Solstice Marks Shorter Days and Yin’s Rising A solar term is a period of about two weeks, based on the sun’s position in the zodiac. ...

Seems like a good thing to practice all around!

“According to UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, regularly expressing gratitude literally changes the molecular structure of the brain, keeps the gray matter functioning, and makes us healthier and happier.

When you feel happiness, the central nervous system is affected. You are more peaceful, less reactive, and less resistant. And gratitude is the most effective practice for stimulating feelings of happiness.” - Justin Brown, Ideapod.com

Neuroscience reveals how gratitude literally rewires your brain to be happier We often hear about the power of gratitude for creating a more positive and happy mental state. But did you know that gratitude literally transforms your brain? According to UCLA's Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, regularly expressing gratitude literally changes the molecular structure of the....

“During infection, we all appreciate that there are these immune defenses that largely are designed to get rid of an invading pathogen, and that’s been thought to be the only or main way that we deal with infections,” says Ruslan Medzhitov, an immunologist at Yale School of Medicine. “What’s being appreciated more recently . . . is that there is also this other mechanism, so-called tolerance to infection, where instead of trying to get rid of a pathogen we change something about the body, about the physiology, and that lets us tolerate the presence of a pathogen.”

Could Tolerating Disease Be Better than Fighting It? Quieting immune attacks against pathogens and even providing nutrients to the invaders could improve health, according to a new line of research.

Tai Chi is an excellent way to address chronic pain and depression found in conditions such as fibromyalgia.

Tai Chi May Benefit Patients With Fibromyalgia Patients with fibromyalgia benefited more from tai chi than from standard stretching exercises in a 6-month study of 66 patients.