Tag Archives: Mental Health


How pyrrole disorder relates to mental illnesses
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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.

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Meditation and Energy Healing
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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.

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Chemical Imbalances And Mental Disorder
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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.

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TMS, A Non-Drug Alternative to Antidepressants
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, recurring, and debilitating mental illness that is the most common in the United States.

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Finding Wellness During Covid
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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.  

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Symptoms Of Hormonal Imbalance
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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
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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
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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?

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The Top Three Most Important Foods During the Pandemic
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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.

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How Vitamin D Helps Fight the Coronavirus
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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.

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