Diablo Acupuncture

"According to experts, sometimes the most effective treatment is one that’s been around for millennia"

An Effective Migraine Treatment Predates Modern Medicine Needle pricks for brain pain.

I've been seeing lots of interesting post-covid symptoms and treating to great success.

For some long Covid patients, acupuncture and other Eastern remedies offer relief Many people with long-term Covid symptoms say they've improved with acupuncture, meditation and ancient herbs.

I've worked with a lot of folks struggling with depression over the years to great success.

Acupuncture for Depression: Is It Worth Trying? Some research hints that acupuncture is useful for alleviating symptoms of depression, but the evidence is slim. Here’s what to consider before trying it.

Why Acupuncture Is Going Mainstream in Medicine Here's what research says about the complementary therapy

All of this!

You're supposed to be feeling tired right now, Nova Scotia.

For the past 20 months, your HPA Axis has been responding to what it thinks is a low level threat. So, your brain is sending more Corticotropic Releasing Hormone (CRH) towards your adrenal glands to create more cortisol to respond to this perceived threat.

(Perceived threat = respond in the same way as an actual threat... so, your body thinks you've been running away from a bear this entire time)

Over time, that increase in cortisol blunts a cell's ability to respond appropriately. This means that your body doesn't respond the way it's supposed to. It undeeresponds in a way. To respond, it requires a stronger signal to be sent. That's a similar feeling to being fine, and then all of sudden being very NOT fine.

Welcome to the party, adrenaline. An adrenaline response used to be bursting into tears because you got the wrong type of coffee, or your hair wouldn't curl right, or you missed an email and it felt like the end of the world. Let alone trying to decide what to eat.

But now you don't have a lot of adrenaline left. So now you just feel apathetic, you feel blah, you feel like you don't care.

But you do care.

And that separation is what we see in Burnout. And we blame ourselves and hold guilt because we think we shouldn't be feeling this way, that we should be grateful for what we have. And that guilt is holding you back.

You should be burnt out right now. Your system is responding exactly as it's physiologically supposed to do. Your body is trying to keep you alive.

So you need to remind your body that there is no threat.

💫Get your sleep, and prioritize it at all costs.
💫Take a piece of paper and write down EVERYTHING and have a friend or loved one help you prioritize. Focus on that first.
💫Engage in simple activities, ideally outside. You don't need to get caught up in the updates, you need to go for a walk.
💫Turn your phone on silent.
💫 Look at someone in the eye and tell them thank you.
💫 Eat some protein.
💫 Ask for help.
💫 Redefine success.

You're supposed to have emotions friend, you're a human. But those supports will help you feel more like yourself again.

Diablo Acupuncture updated their phone number.

Diablo Acupuncture updated their address.

Acupunture for sure helps with anxiety. I've been seeing lots of that these days in my clinic.

Does Acupuncture Work for Anxiety? Find out why acupuncture might be an effective approach to managing anxiety and stress.

Allergies got you feeling out of sorts? Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine are excellent ways to treat your allergies!

8 Ways To Treat Allergies, According To Eastern Medicine Allergies are a nuisance to deal with, and if you're someone who is sick of popping antihistamines every time you get the sniffles, you might be looking for alternative remedies. There are a number of ways to treat allergies, according to Eastern…

Evidence Grows for Acupuncture Treatment in Cancer Survivors Among cancer survivors with chronic musculoskeletal pain, both electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture—also called battlefield acupuncture—effectively reduced pain and improved quality of life, according to a study presented at the virtual 2020 annual meeting of the American Society...

Acupuncture Helped People With Back Pain Walk and Bend Better:

Acupuncture Helped People With Back Pain Walk and Bend Better Back pain sufferers who got electroacupuncture had improvements in walking comfortably, standing for longer periods, bending and kneeling.

Fire and Water. Humanity can not exist without these two elements.

These two elements are intimately connected in Chinese Medicine – known as the Fire/ Water or Heart/ Kidney axis. The stability of this axis is the very foundation of health, immunity and self-knowledge. If communication of the Heart/ Kidney axis is severed – often through trauma- any myriad of symptoms can arise from anxiety, agitation, dream disturbed sleep, insomnia, palpitations, poor memory, hearing problems, lower back pain, throat dryness, night sweats to urination changes. Acupuncture can help restore this connection and ultimately empower true healing, self-knowledge and innate purpose.

Amazing resource for Bay Area people with breast cancer.

Apply If you are in treatment for breast cancer and your health insurance does not cover complementary care such as herbs, supplements, acupuncture or massage, you may qualify for funding from The U'ilani...

A team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame systemic inflammation in mice.

Study finds promising results using acupuncture to treat inflammation Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice.

Draft NICE guidance finds little evidence for use of paracetamol, NSAIDS, benzodiazepines or opioids made any difference in chronic widespread pain conditions.

Just another reason to turn to acupuncture for chronic pain conditions!

Avoid Many Common Treatments for Chronic Pain: NICE Paracetamol, NSAIDs, and opioids, should not be offered for chronic primary pain, according to new NICE draft guidance.

What an honor to discover when I received my copy of this weekend, that I won runner-up for alternative therapies in their Best Of 2020 issue!
Major thanks to all my patients who took the time to vote.
It’s because of your continued support that I get to show up every day and do the work I love. @ Diablo Acupuncture

These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve The early trickle of new coronavirus infections has turned into a steady current. By creating simple simulations, we can see how to slow it down.

Studies from the last several years show that some supplement containing zinc can help shorten the duration of cold symptoms by up to 40% — depending on the amount of the mineral in each dose and what it's combined with.

What it's combined with really matters! Zinc cold formulations sold at drugstores often contain multiple ingredients that can undercut the zinc's effectiveness. For instance, the lozenges "should not contain citric acid," Hemilä says, because it binds with the zinc in a way that keeps the mineral from being released.

Taking Zinc Can Shorten Your Cold. Thank A 91-Year-Old Scientist For The Discovery Dr. Ananda Prasad first turned up zinc's benefits to human growth back in the 1960s. Years later, his study and others found that the right dose of zinc can cut a cold's duration by days.

Researchers found that people who were coping by avoiding their feelings, particularly by not expressing their emotions freely, had higher levels of cytokines, which are markers of inflammation in the blood.

Get It Out: Stuffing Your Feelings Can Lead To Inflammation, Study Finds In a study of people experiencing grief, researchers found that all coping mechanisms aren't created equal.

Your body, mind and spirit are always sending subtle messages.
How well attuned to the messages are you? Can you listen, and act, upon these messages before your body is screaming and halts whatever you’re doing - like getting seriously sick or injured?

It’s citrus season!

These mandarins came from a tree I planted when I moved to my current office 4 years ago - first crop!

Did you know one orange has more than your daily required dose of Vitamin C?

Citrus is also full of potassium, fiber, phosphorus and B vitamins which help:

Boost your immune system and shorten your cold’s duration | Heal wounds | Support cartilage, joints and musclesMaintain bones, skin, and teeth | Keep you regular | Delay aging while protecting against heart disease and some cancers.

Diablo Acupuncture updated their business hours.

Chinese Medicine is everywhere! Each of the channels/ meridians has a color association. Most migraines in chinese medicine are associated with the Liver and Gallbladder meridian system. And it just so happens that this meridian corresponds to the color green. Pretty neat when ancient medicine can explain modern day findings!

Researchers Explore A Drug-Free Idea To Relieve Chronic Pain: Green Light

So stoked to get a logo that I love from and to now wear it proudly around town!!

“Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.”

Debbie Millman’s Touching Letter to Children About How Books Solace Our Heartbreak and Salve Our Existential Loneliness “Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.”…

This Wednesday from 6-8pm I’ll be at the giving a talk about how to live in harmony with the winter season.
We’ll discuss the Qi of winter; yummy warming foods and appropriate teas to drink; essential oil blends and how and where to use them; we’ll find some acupuncture points and how to use self massage in the winter; and of course we’ll do some winter qi gong and mediations.
Please contact the center to register for this class and to find out more about the amazing work they do for the cancer community!
@ Lafayette, California

Experts say meditation can work as well as medications for some people.

How Meditation Can Help with Chronic Pain Experts say the practice can work as well as drugs for some people

If ‘Pain Is an Opinion,’ There Are Ways to Change Your Mind.

One thing we tend to believe about pain, but is wrong, is that it always stems from a single, fixable source. Another is that pain is communicated from that source to our brains by “pain nerves.” That’s so wrong it’s called “the naïve view” by neuroscientists.

In truth, pain is in our brain. Or as the author and University of California, San Diego, neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran put it, “Pain is an opinion.” We feel it because of how our brain interprets input transmitted to it from all our senses, not necessarily because of the inherent properties of the input itself. There are no nerves dedicated to sensing and transmitting pain.

If ‘Pain Is an Opinion,’ There Are Ways to Change Your Mind All pain is real, but it’s also true that it’s “made by the brain” and that we can exert some control over it.

Don't let your fear of needles get in the way from the healing of acupuncture. Great article from the perspective of a first time patient getting acupuncture.

My Fear of Needles Didn't Stop Me From Getting Acupuncture, and Here's Why I'll Be Going Back Growing up, my parents always encouraged my brother and me not to depend on medicine for healing. It's not like they asked us to disregard Western medicine and

If you want to live a long, healthy life, the key is to do the right things — and avoid the wrong things — for decades, not just a few months. Because when it comes to longevity, there's no short-term fix.

A 'blue zones' diet: Live longer from what you eat For most of their lives, the world's super-agers have nourished their bodies with whole, plant-based foods, such as leafy vegetables, tubers, nuts, beans and whole grains. And they ate meat fewer than five times monthly.