I’m going to be talking about what I did—and didn’t do—post-op to support my recovery. Some of these tips may seem counter to what you’ve heard your whole life and probably different than what you will hear at a hospital, so read on to better understand.

Learn about the symptoms of a parathyroid tumor, what to look for on your lab work, and how to look for a doctor who can help.

If you’ve been feeling like garbage, and no one knows what’s causing it, make sure you’ve gotten your calcium checked. Hypercalcemia (high calcium in the blood) is almost always caused by a parathyroid tumor, and while we easily associate calcium with bones and teeth, we are slower to associate calcium with mental health, digestive problems, bone & muscle pain and weakness, frequent urination, and memory problems.

I want to practice patient-centered medicine, and I refuse to allow my treatments to be dictated by anything other than good medicine. It’s more important to me to offer good treatment and a space for people to take a deep breath than it is to try and think about how to bill a certain amount of units.

The vast majority of the acupuncture that is taught and practiced around the world is what is called TCM—Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is a modernized version of classical acupuncture that uses only the primary channels rather than the entire system, which is the complement channels plus the primary channels.

Dietary factors are a huge part of gut health & healthy pooping habits, but we also need to talk about how the lung is related to the large intestine, how we breathe, & how we deal with grief.

Chinese medicine food therapy approaches diet (meaning what we eat rather than a specific way of eating) the same way it does acupuncture: it’s an energetic practice with directionality. All of our organs have a direction in which their qi flows, & when that qi gets out of balance, that’s when we notice problems.

The primary channels exist to manage the organ system and express the emotions of their respective organs, and when this doesn’t happen, for example being told to suppress your feelings or keep secret experiences that need to be brought to light, the complement channels step in, specifically the divergent channels

Chinese Medicine (CM) has a distinct way of looking at how we contract respiratory diseases, how they progress, and therefore, how they can be treated. Of course, CM also has a different way of naming a cold, flu, or other respiratory infection, too, so let’s start there.

Migraines are increasingly common and extremely debilitating. While there are a wide variety of signs and symptoms people experience when they have migraines, if you or someone you know struggles with them, you know they can really be life changing. So how can acupuncture help?

When classical practitioners treat patients with cancers, what we are doing is not treating the cancer per se but restoring the mediumship needed to keep it at bay. This is not a recommendation for any particular type of treatment but rather is an explanation of the ways we can support and rebuild mediumship at home in our daily lives from the Chinese medicine perspective. These suggestions will also be helpful for people with other chronic, degenerative diseases like autoimmune conditions.

This form of acupuncture offers patients faster and more permanent results, addressing the root of the problem rather than the symptom. This type of acupuncture can often treat conditions that were previously thought to be untreatable.