Topic: alternative therapies

Reiki Won’t Cure My Irregular Periods Unless I Believe It Will

Reiki Won't Cure My Irregular Periods Unless I Believe It Will

Last week, I wrote that I didn’t really know what Reiki was (“It sounds like gardening to me”). Afterwards, I thought that statement might be a bit unfair, seeing as how Reiki has been receiving a lot of media hype lately as an alternative path to healing. Which got me to thinking: maybe I should give Reiki a whirl. I’ve got an open mind and am willing to try anything, so why not discover for myself what this practice is all about? More »

Q&A: The Hormone Diet‘s Natasha Turner on How Your Sleep Patterns Are Making You Fat

Q&A: The Hormone Diet's Natasha Turner on How Your Sleep Patterns Are Making You Fat

Meet Dr. Natasha Turner, a Naturopathic Doctor and founder of Clear Medicine, an integrated medicine wellness boutique in Toronto, who recently authored a ground-breaking wellness tome called The Hormone Diet: Lose Fat, Gain Strength, Live Younger Longer. Trust me: This is no diet book — it’s a clinical series of revelatory lifestyle changes based on the hormones that your body naturally produces (or doesn’t produce enough of, as the case may be), many of which will likely be very new to you, no matter how healthy you think you are. Soon, Dr. Turner will begin contributing weekly posts to Blisstree about health, wellness, Naturopathic Medicine, and how our hormones can help us (and we in turn can help our hormones). But in the meantime, I asked her a few questions about her very intriguing “non-diet” diet book. More »

10 Facts About Acupuncture and Your Health

10 Facts About Acupuncture and Your Health

I’ve had such positive health experiences with acupuncture over the years, that it makes me sad when I hear people dismiss the idea that this ancient Chinese practice actually has powerful healing properties. After all, you skeptics, Eastern medicine has been around a lot longer than Western medicine. (And I’ve been able to manage my genetic skin disease called Hailey-Hailey, thanks in large part to regular acupuncture treatments.) So I asked my acupuncturist, Anne Mok, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and co-owner of Cornerstone Healing in New York City, to debunk these ten common myths about acupuncture and your health: More »