Cedar Mill Acupuncture

01/10/2026

The food pyramid is back and it's been flipped upside down. A massive win for U.S. public health.

02/23/2025

https://youtu.be/XyX98bnDaow?si=GFEV8UDJFjwaF_xn

What’s really behind the price and scarcity of eggs? Today, I’m going to interview Clayton Baker, M.D. and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of ...

01/23/2024

Oreo cookies predictably lowered LDL cholesterol levels more effectively than statin drugs while on a high fat, low carb diet.

More evidence that the Lipid Hypothesis of heart disease is deeply flawed.

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07/03/2023

High oxalate foods can cause significant health problems beyond kidney stones.

When cells are required to handle oxalate they are “managing” it, not metabolizing it. This is dangerous work for a cell.

06/29/2023

Warning: Spinach has the highest oxalate concentration among all foods.

Almonds, Soy, and Chard are also loaded with oxalates.

Here we we look at a vegetable with practically no nutritional benefit, but which poses numerous risks due to its extremely high oxalate content!Make sure to...

01/22/2023

Eight Treasures is a famous form of qigong (energy work). Reduces stress and strengthens the body.

This is the qigong practice of the 8 Brocades, or Baduanjin. Regular practice is believed to improve organ function and overall wellbeing. It was filmed in B...

11/04/2022

The strength and nutritional status of our bodies are the two primary factors that determine the outcome of infections.

Immunity is often challenged by the invasion of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other pathogens. This requires the resources of the innate and adaptive immune ...

10/07/2022

Serotonin levels are not connected to symptoms of depression.

- Journal of Molecular Psychiatry July 2022

Mark Horowitz, who's taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for nearly 20 years, believes "the public has been misled" about the drugs.

09/09/2022

According to a meta-analysis recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, taking a statin drug reduces the absolute risk of having a heart attack by only 1.3%.

JAMA Intern Med. 2022 May 1;182(5):474-481

The results of this meta-analysis suggest that the absolute risk reductions of treatment with statins in terms of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke are modest compared with the relative risk reductions, and the presence of significant heterogeneity reduces the certainty of the e...

07/21/2022

"The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations."

The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or activity in a systematic umbrella review of the principal relevant areas of research. PubMed, EMBASE and PsycINFO were...

06/23/2022

"More than 9 in 10 healthcare interventions studied within recent Cochrane Reviews are not supported by high-quality evidence, and harms are under-reported."

- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, August 2022

This is exactly why diet and lifestyle improvement is the foundation of every Functional Medicine treatment plan.

To estimate the proportion of healthcare interventions tested within Cochrane Reviews that are effective according to high-quality evidence.We selecte…