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Aug 30
4 min

The Ginger Principle: eating foods appropriate to your thermal nature

Do certain foods cause you grief? Headache, fatigue, stomach pain, gas, irritability, or maybe just the blahs? A typical investigation...

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The lost art of raising happy, helpful children

Jul 11
2 min

The lost art of raising happy, helpful children

This is our book of the year. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful...

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Hillary Day

Apr 20
4 min

120 minutes: The health benefits of blue/green spaces

Green and Blue Spaces are natural environments - some on land and covered by vegetation (“Green”), others involving water like rivers,...

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Mar 9
2 min

Puttering therapy: A very human way to dissolve stress and worry

A friend of mine asked me recently if I had any good suggestions for how to clear bad coworker vibes. He is in a position where he is...

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Feb 8
8 min

Zootopia: Redesigning our modern environment with health and happiness in mind

About 12,000 years ago, humans started moving into zoos. We settled ourselves into permanent little boxes and began making arrangements...

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Oct 11, 2022
1 min

Causes of blockage in the modern world

We get acupuncture regularly - wouldn't dare live in the modern world without it (or something like it). Acupuncture corrects the...

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Aug 17, 2022
3 min

How to behave in autumn

Chinese medicine is very concerned with proper behavior and timing: What to do and when to do it to live a healthy, happy, and long life....

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Jun 16, 2022
4 min

Video

1% for the Planet

We can't heal ourselves without healing our home planet. Since we opened in Louisville last year, Turtle Tree has set aside 1% of our...

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Mar 16, 2022
4 min

The Linger Method: Finding Presence in a Million Small Moments

When I finished school, I was exhausted. Mentally and physically exhausted. It turns out that even university programs in Chinese...

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Feb 21, 2022
3 min

All about herbs

We like to use herbs. No... put the bong and the Allman Brothers album away for now, we don't mean those herbs... Nor do we mean the...

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Jan 12, 2022
6 min

How to recover from a holiday food-binge

We're almost 2 weeks into 2022. Do you still feel like you're recovering from holiday festivities? Today's missive answers a question...

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Turtle Tree

Dec 22, 2021
1 min

3 common FAQs about acupuncture

How specifically does acupuncture work? From a Balance Medicine standpoint, acupuncture corrects the flow of resources and information in...

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Hillary Day

Dec 17, 2021
3 min

What Is Cupping?

In a mountain cottage in Bulgaria, near the border with Greece, Petra Peevska has her patient Maria place her feet in a hot, salt-water...

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Dec 17, 2021
4 min

Audio

Friendship, stress, and viral immunity

If you've read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, then you're familiar with the story of Stuart Wolf, a physician who, in the 1950s, stumbled...

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Dec 8, 2021
7 min

Following your body's healing cues

Today's missive is about healing cues (my term) -- messages from your body about what it needs to get well. If you follow them, they will...

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Hillary Day

Nov 17, 2021
3 min

Tuning in to nature's song

A couple weeks ago, Jonathan wrote about how health emerges like a symphony when all its possible determinants - physical, emotional,...

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Nov 11, 2021
2 min

What is Balance Medicine?

I've had a number of folks ask me why we call our medicine "Balance Medicine". Let me thrill you with some etymology. The official name...

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Aug 15, 2021
3 min

Acupuncture's popularity: a call for more than pain relief

Acupuncture is gaining popularity in the U.S., and two modern epidemics have created this opportunity. The first is a pain epidemic....

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Jun 7, 2021
9 min