by Michael Max | Oct 7, 2015 | acupuncture, Podcast
We seek out medical practitioners because we want to know. There is a problem and we want it gone. Sometimes the process of discovery is not difficult, and health concerns are quickly resolved. But then there are those issues that linger for years, decades even. They...
by Michael Max | Sep 23, 2015 | acupuncture, Podcast
The Chinese medicine perspective on physiology connects and diverges from the conventional Western view like a blue highway meanders around an Interstate. Our guest on this episode speaks fluently from the perspectives of both modern biomedicine and the ancient art of...
by Michael Max | Sep 16, 2015 | acupuncture, Podcast
Research is a funny thing. On one hand, most of us think of it as the most dry and boring stuff you could possibly read. On the other hand, we see it as the Holy Grail of truth when it comes to understanding the effectiveness of medical interventions. As with most...
by Michael Max | Aug 30, 2015 | food, Lifestyle, Podcast
The classics of Chinese medicine describe the digestive system in terms of what today we’d call a compost pile. Indeed we symbiotically live with, and are dependent on, a population of microbes that outnumbers our “human” cells. Our modern day war on...
by Michael Max | Aug 11, 2015 | Lifestyle, meditation, Podcast
We often imagine we want the latest in medicine’s technological innovation should we find ourselves or a loved one in the midst of illness and suffering. But there are moments when our most advanced technology, while it can save lives, can not reach into the...
