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Laureen Macintosh Dr.Ac.

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My goal is to empower women to take control of their health, overcome challenges and embrace longevity.

I provide personalized, compassionate care rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine to help you feel balanced, energized, and at ease in your body. Laureen has been working in the wellness field since 2003. She began as a Registered Massage Therapist and has since added Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture to her skill set. Laureen has a particular interest in treating stress and stress-related disorders as well as musculoskeletal injuries, aches and pains.

11/12/2026

A biological miracle is happening in somatosensory neuroscience labs where Brain Prize 2026 winners Professors David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors have revealed the complete cellular architecture of touch and pain — including the discovery of entirely new pain-sensing terminal Schwann cells that wrap around unmyelinated pain nerve endings and actively amplify or dampen pain signals — a cell type never previously known to participate in pain processing that is now identified as the key gatekeeper of chronic pain.
The discovery explains one of medicine's most frustrating mysteries: why chronic pain persists long after tissue damage heals. These terminal Schwann cells can become permanently sensitized after injury — continuing to amplify pain signals through synaptic mechanisms even when no damage remains. Targeting these cells with drugs that specifically calm their sensitization state — rather than broadly blocking nerve signaling — could eliminate chronic pain in millions of patients suffering from fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, and post-surgical pain syndromes without the cognitive side effects of current painkillers.
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11/03/2026

An interesting look at what is happening to our medicine. The same issues are affecting Canadian practitioners.
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https://acupuncturetoday.com/article/40228-a-body-with-no-head-a-call-for-soul-recovery?utm_source=ATNU&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=20261102&utm_term=1&utm_content=40228&s=107270&l=14
Alberta Association of Acupuncturists & Traditional Chinese Medical Doctors

Discover how modernization and regulatory shifts are impacting East Asian medicine's professional identity, scope, and soul in the United States today.

10/20/2026

Osteoporosis is a silent condition - many people don’t know they have it until after their first broken bone.
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Learn more about by clicking the link in bio or comments.

10/18/2026

Tip #1: Wear short sleeves and loose pants. Many of the most effective points are in the forearms and lower legs. Easy access to these points makes your treatment smoother.
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Want together the most out of your acupuncture session? Follow as I share a series of tips.
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Questions? Book a 15 minute free consultation to find out if acupuncture can help you. Link in bio.

10/12/2026

Thanksgiving is a time of getting together with friends and family and eating. Traditionally turkey and 🥧 pie.
If you’ve over-indulged in good food this weekend we can help. Acupuncture can help reduce symptoms of digestive upset and restore balance.
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08/29/2026

A few new studies are claiming hormone therapy in menopause protects against dementia. This analysis shows the hype may not be accurate.

It found no benefit for most women, and it’s observational

08/27/2026

Currently working my way through this book. A fascinating look at how we breathe.
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The author suggests that we, the human race, no longer breathe properly. He explores a variety of breathing techniques that purport to restore health for a variety of ailments.
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08/06/2026

Electro acupuncture, applied twice per week for four weeks, had significant effects on improving sleep 😴

Editor’s Note: This is the latest column from the Society for Acupuncture Research. Visit the SAR online columnist page for access to previous articles.

07/15/2026

This is an interesting read about migraines. Do you suffer from them? Ask about how acupuncture can help.

Why Your Neck Muscles Hold the Key to Lasting Relief

07/14/2026

Maybe we don’t need to stress about waking up in the middle of the night.

Historical records from the 1500s and 1600s describe a "first sleep" and a "second sleep," with a natural gap in between where people got up in the middle of the night. Historian A. Roger Ekirch has pulled more than 500 references to this pattern from ancient, medieval, and early-modern documents. The waking stretch even had a name: "the watch."

Sleep scientists call the two-block pattern biphasic or segmented sleep. The broader term polyphasic, coined in the early 1900s by psychologist J. S. Szymanski, covers any schedule with multiple sleep periods in 24 hours, and it's believed to be the ancestral state for mammals.

Ekirch attributes the shift to a single unbroken block to the spread of electric lighting. A 1992 study by Thomas Wehr backs the older rhythm: healthy men kept in 14 hours of darkness each night eventually settled into roughly 4 hours of sleep, 2 to 3 hours awake, then another 4 hours of sleep. During that middle stretch, the brain runs high on prolactin, the pituitary hormone tied to the calm, floaty feeling people often report at that hour.

The single unbroken block we treat as normal is the newer habit. If you jolt awake at 2AM and can't explain why, your body might just be running an older pattern.

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Calgary, AB

Opening Hours

Monday	2pm - 8pm
Wednesday	2pm - 8pm
Thursday	1pm - 7pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Website

http://www.laureenmac.com/

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