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Eating fish is associated with reduced risk of heart disease, depression, and age-related cognitive
The 2014 report from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, titled 'Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Dietary Fatty...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 18, 20182 min read
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Questioning the institutional corruption that drives pharmaceutical medicine.
"A systematic review of the 39 methodologically strongest studies performed in the U.S. between 1964 and 1995 examined patients who were...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 5, 20187 min read
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The Acupuncture Evidence Project - A Comparative Literature Review out of Australia
"We searched the literature with a focus on systematic reviews and meta analyses (the highest form of evidence available). We sorted the...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
May 29, 20182 min read
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Our Commitment to Better Medicine
At Abundant Heaven, you can count on us to be transparent, evidence-based, open to your input and concerns, and ultimately encouraging...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
May 26, 20181 min read
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Reflections on Changes in the Study and Practice of Medicine
This is a reflection on an editorial from the Journal of Science and Healing titled: "Finding a Common Language: Resolving the Town and...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
May 22, 20183 min read
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Reminder to Regularly Check our Facebook Feed and/or Research Page for New Articles
I spend a significant amount of time reading, reviewing, and collecting research relevant to our scope of practice. If you aren't already...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
May 17, 20181 min read
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Happy Lunar New Year - Yang Earth Dog
Happy lunar new year from Abundant Heaven! We wish you a bountiful and healthful year. We also wanted to share some insight into the...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Feb 16, 20185 min read
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Acupuncture and Professional Sports
Acupuncture continues to become increasingly more utilized by Americans, and being that today is a day when most Americans are focused on...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Feb 4, 20182 min read
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The latest large-scale, peer-reviewed meta-analysis of acupuncture arrives in The Journal of Pain -
An excellent review of data from research that involved over 20,827 patients across 39 clinical trials was published in the prestigious...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Dec 18, 20172 min read
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Newly published research from the journal Opinions in Anesthesiology - October 2017
We wanted to share a newly published article from the journal Opinions in Anesthesiology, October 2017, titled: "Acupuncture for chronic...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Nov 21, 20172 min read
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What is Fascia and Why is it Important to Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine?
Acupuncture muscle channels, identified by physicians over two thousand years ago and part of the system of acupuncture knowledge and...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Nov 12, 20174 min read
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Tea Tasting & Sales Event - Sunday, October 15
Join us for a pre-holiday special event at Abundant Heaven. Taste new tea, get sale pricing on last season's teas, and hang out in our...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Sep 11, 20171 min read
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Why should I take a probiotic? And what should I look for in probiotics for the best result?
With research and better understandings of the connections of the gut microbiome accumulating, there are, in our opinion, more and more...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Aug 18, 20172 min read
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From the BMJ - The CDC pledges “To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientifi
Peter Doshi is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. His report questions the...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Aug 9, 20171 min read
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Auricular acupuncture as a treatment for pregnant women who have low back and posterior pelvic pain:
We wanted to share a compelling study (click to download entire research paper) with you all, showing efficacy of ear acupuncture in...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Aug 7, 20173 min read
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Illness as an experience, not as an entity.
"The prevailing biomedical model, inherited from the anatomical and bacteriological investigations of the sixteenth through nineteenth...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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Summer Solstice and Tips for Protecting Yourself from Summer Heat
One of the deepest insights of the human body from Chinese medicine is the appreciation of the body in the every changing cycles of...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 23, 20176 min read
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'Dietary Fat: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' - Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related
Looking up research on dietary fats and their effects on cholesterol, I discovered this recently published article. Here is the abstract...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 17, 20173 min read
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Food poisoning can lead to IBS - a look at a recent meta-analysis.
While I was reading an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a team of gastroenterologists, I looked into a study they pointed to. The study found...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 9, 20172 min read
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Pu'erh Tea and Fat Metabolism: Yet another study pointing to significant results.
In my regular scouring of the journals for new research on tea, I discovered one particular study that interests me, in large part...
Michael E. Brown, Licensed Acupuncturist
Jun 8, 20171 min read
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