Tag Archives: Mental Health
How pyrrole disorder relates to mental illnesses
Though psychiatrists started to use pyrrole disorder to diagnose and treat mental illnesses years ago, it is not known to most of the general public.
COVID-19 Induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Among all the long haul symptoms of COVID-19, severe mental impact has drawn the attention of psychiatrists and therapists.
Meditation and Energy Healing
Meditation has become a popular health practice. People who practice it experience a wide range of wellness benefits, including stress reduction, relief from anxiety and depression, improved energy and a relief from chronic illnesses.
Chemical Imbalances And Mental Disorder
The chemicals in the human body, such as hormones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters, serve important purposes, not only in regulating our body’s functions, but also affecting the way we react to stress and more.
TMS, A Non-Drug Alternative to Antidepressants
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, recurring, and debilitating mental illness that is the most common in the United States.
Finding Wellness During Covid
As we continue to practice social distancing and following Covid restrictions to decrease the spread of the COVID-19 virus, our stress and anxiety levels intensify. With each passing milestone of the pandemic, people everywhere are experiencing “Covid fatigue.” From missing human interactions, loss of loved ones, and feeling as if the past year has been on pause, the prevalence of Anxiety, Depression, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are at an all-time high.
Symptoms Of Hormonal Imbalance
Hormonal imbalances can occur in men, women and children. As your body’s chemical messengers, hormones play an important role in regulating normal bodily functions. They are produced in the endocrine glands before being transported to different parts of the body, essentially instructing your organs and tissues what to do. When you have too much or too little of a certain hormone, hormonal imbalance occurs. As hormones are crucial in key bodily processes such as metabolism and reproduction, any imbalances should not be overlooked.
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The Impact of Stress on Health
Stress is caused by a person’s physical and emotional reaction to life events. Heavy workloads and the modern lifestyle create excessive chronic stress in people today. As we discussed in a previous blog article on functional medicine, the human body is a holistic organism, in which all systems and functions are complex and interrelated components.
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Managing Menopause Symptoms with Acupuncture
Are you suffering from menopause-related symptoms, such as hot flashes, sweating, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depression, moodiness?
Are you worried about the side effects of hormone replacement therapy for menopause-related symptoms?
The Top Three Most Important Foods During the Pandemic
During our battle with the pandemic, we can reduce our risks of infection and increase our chances of survival and recovery by living a healthy lifestyle, keeping a positive and calm mindset, and eating food that helps improve our immune system, and providing our body with nutrients that are especially helpful to make our body stronger in fighting with Covid 19.
There are three types of foods with the specific nutrients we need.
How Vitamin D Helps Fight the Coronavirus
Vitamin D is well known for its benefits to our bone health, such as preventing rickets in children and osteoporosis and fractures in the elderly.
Six Health Benefits of Curcumin
Turmeric powder is in seasoning and curry. Curcumin is extracted from turmeric and is well known for its approved medicinal effects.
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Zinc for Mental and Brain Health
The Real Life Story
A couple of years ago, a college student came to our clinic for a mental health consultation. The 18-year-old youth was bright, knowledgeable, and intelligent. However, he constantly had issues with homework.
He spent many hours doing the research and won’t let it go even though he exhausted his source of information. He was often late for handing in his assignments.
He tried many management techniques but could not help researching compulsively. As a result, he lost many hours of sleep, was frustrated with his imperfect work, fearful of failure, and had doubts about his ability.
In addition, he has a low tolerance for stress and gets overwhelmed easily. He once felt so gloomy that he began to question the value of being alive.
His blood work and urine tests indicated that this young man suffered from biochemical imbalances that prevented his brain from producing enough neurotransmitters, serotonin in particular. He had also lost zinc and B6 through the urine due to Kryptopyrrole, the body’s inability to metabolize hemoglobin.
5 Ways to Cultivate Your Liver Energy
In modern medicine, the liver’s primary function is to filter the blood, pass it to the rest of the body, metabolize and detoxify food and medication.
Vaccine Safety & Children with Autism (Part 2)
Genetic testing has found that there are almost 100 genes related to autism. Therefore, there is an inherent susceptibility factor in the occurrence of autism.
Vaccine Safety & Children with Autism (Part 1)
Is the vaccine safe for children？ Do vaccines cause autism in Children? What dilemma and challenge do the parents with autistic children face on the Covid-19 vaccine?
7 Nutrients you must know about turkey
On the evening of Thanksgiving, a turkey was on the table of almost every family in the United States.
According to statistics, on Thanksgiving day, 88% of Americans eat turkey. Annually, Americans consume 736 million pounds of turkey. Since 1970, both turkey production and consumption has increased by over 100%.
Why the jump in consumption?
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Advanced Nutrient Therapy & Seven Foods to Keep a Vibrant Brain
Learn how to use nutrients and food to maintain brain health, improve memory, and prevent dementia and other mental illnesses.
Yang Institute’s Philadelphia Office at 1608 Walnut Street is Now Open
Along with offices in Bryn Mawr, PA, and Marlton, NJ, Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine focuses on Mental and Brain Health, Pain Management, Chronic Illnesses and Aging, through the application of a holistic, natural and scientifically based approach, while helping people depend less on the use of medications that cause serious side effects.
A Life-Changing Non-Drug Treatment for Depression
FDA Cleared TMS Therapy is a non-invasive treatment of depression. It uses magnetic pulses to stimulate areas of the brain that are underactive in depression.
The 5 Biotypes of Depression and the Integrative Treatment Solution
Over 300 million people suffer from depression globally according to the World Health Organization. This common mental disorder impacts almost every aspect of a person’s life, reducing their ability to function while inducing fatigue and a feeling of worthlessness.
Train The Brain For Peak Performance
A Cutting-Edge Non-Invasive Technique for Brain and Mental Illness
Brain training using a technique called neurofeedback is becoming increasingly popular. It is widely used in mental health clinics as a non-drug and non-invasive therapy in treating conditions like concussion, ADD/ADHD, stress and anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders.
How to Harness Your Child’s Focus & Concentration Naturally
A clear and focused mind is crucial to learning, developing social skills, and achieving academic success.
Neurofeedback and ADHD
By George Yang at Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine
The therapeutic application of neurofeedback for ADHD has been implemented since the 1970s. Research has shown that neurofeedback can be a potentially effective therapy for ADHD, and the results were promising. Several different neurofeedback protocols have been observed.