July 2009

Tai chi master studied for power to control body

Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial arts form, often seen in this country when groups of people in outdoor parks perform graceful arm-and-body movements in unison. So what was a tai chi master doing last month in a lab at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital?

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Guided Imagery For Self-Healing – Video

The Academy for Guided Imagery is harnessing the mind’s awesome power to speed healing. We meet Dr. Martin Rossman, the physician who founded the Academy and has trained thousands of practitioners….

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The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering a New Spiritual Path

A free online teleseminar series sponsored by Integralenlightenment.com and Integral Life began on June 20 and will run on consecutive Saturdays through September 26. The lineup of 14 presenters includes Ken Wilber, Don Beck, Diane Hamilton, Andrew Cohen, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz. To find out specific times and guests, go to the website and sign in.

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Psychological Treatments May Not Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Psychological interventions intended to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the early stages after a traumatic experience have not been shown to be effective, Cochrane Researchers have concluded. This systematic review focused on multiple-session treatments for everyone involved, irrespective of the presence of symptoms. Two previous reviews found single session interventions to be ineffective.

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Garlic Might Fight Vampires Better Than It Fights Colds

With the recall of the cold remedy Zicam nasal spray for possibly causing some people to lose their sense of smell and the prior failures of vitamin C and echinacea to prove effective in trials, viruses seem to be winning the war on colds. Adding to the long line of mixed or null results, a new review of the research on garlic pills was suggestive of benefit, but inconclusive.

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Understanding The Anticancer Effects Of Vitamin D3

The active form of vitamin D3 seems to have anticancer effects. To try and understand the mechanisms underlying these effects, researchers previously set out to identify genes whose expression in a human colon cancer cell line was altered by the active form of vitamin D3. One gene identified in this previous study was CST5, which is responsible for making the protein cystatin D.

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Patients With Compulsive Hair Pulling Disorder Reported Feeling Much Improved After Taking Supplement

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have discovered that a common anti-oxidant, widely available as a health food supplement, may help stop the urges of those with trichotillomania, a disorder characterized by compulsive hair-pulling. Fifty people enrolled in a double-blind 12 week study; half were given N-Acetylcysteine, an amino acid commonly found in health food supplements.

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Possible Link Between Component Of Vegetable Protein And Lower Blood Pressure

Consuming an amino acid commonly found in vegetable protein may be associated with lower blood pressure, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers found that a 4.72 percent higher dietary intake of the amino acid glutamic acid as a percent of total dietary protein correlated with lower group average systolic blood pressure, lower by 1.5 to 3.0 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).

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Non-drug Interventions May Comfort Children Having An Anesthetic

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2009) — Parental acupuncture, clown doctors, hypnotherapy, low sensory stimulation and hand-held video games are promising non-drug …read more

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Acupuncture cools cancer-related hot flashes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women who suffer severe hot flashes during breast cancer treatment, bacupuncture/b may provide effective, long-lasting relief

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