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What’s In There?

July 28, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

I get that question a lot from patients when they can feel their muscle adhesion roll around like a marble, it’s tender, or it’s making noise. The contracted muscle tissue is quite noisy; as noisy as your joint adjusting (cracking). This is when the patient on the table needs to calm their imagination. It’s not a tumor, a bug, a parasite, or some kind of monster. It’s your flesh. Your flesh is muscle and blood so your muscle knots (adhesions) […]

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, manual therapy, manual therapy procedure, MUSCLES, Naprapathy, pain, soft tissue

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Medical Marijuana Background What You Need to Know About Medical Cannabis — Healthy Body Support

July 23, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Cannabis, or marijuana (Cannabis sativa) is known for its psychoactive properties and its illegal recreational use to get “high” or “stoned”. The main psychoactive chemical in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC. This was isolated in 1964. Another important component, nonpsychoactive cannabidiol (CBD), was identified in 1963. All together, there are more than 60…   “The Chinese used marijuana more than 4600 years ago for ailments such as cramps, joint and menstrual pains. But, it wasn’t until the 19th century […]

Categories: CHINESE MEDICINE, DRUGS, endocannibonoids, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, marijuana, MEDICINE

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How Does Your Body Feel Pain?

July 20, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Injury or contraction to a muscle, organ, or bone sends a signal through the muscle to the nerve that innervates it and then to your brain. Nerves flow throughout your body into every corner with axoplasmic fluid and tiny blood vessels. That fluid speaks to the muscles and thus the blood and into the CNS or central nervous system. The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. If you hurt a bone, the pain signal is sent into the muscle […]

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, DRUGS, endocannibonoids, endogenous opioids, ligament, marijuana, MUSCLES, opioids, pain, pain relief, tendon

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Natural Pain Relievers Beat Big Pharma Drugs on Safety and Effectiveness Over Time

July 19, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

“Drinking water and staying hydrated alleviates pain time and time again as dehydration causes histamines to react in areas of pain in the body. One of Big Pharma’s biggest dirty secrets is that most medications are in fact, antihistamines that treat the localized symptoms of pain – but not the cause.”-Craig Stellpflug Check out this great link for the full story. Natural Pain Relief

Categories: DRUGS, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, MEDICINE, PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, pharmaceuticals, scientific method

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What’s the Deal with Medical Marijuana?

July 11, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Last I heard, big pharma is already sticking their nose into the weeds as usual and trying to synthesize cannabis for pharmaceuticals. They’ve done that with all of our plants. I say “our plants” because I’m a professional herbalist. Most pharmaceuticals that you are prescribed or buy over the counter are synthesized from plants. They take the strongest components of the plant, extract it, throw the rest out and it then sledgehammers your body into submission. All the medicine in […]

Categories: DRUGS, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, marijuana • Tags: cannabis, weed

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Muscles and Blood are Most of your Anatomy

June 21, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

I want to change the name of my business to, “It’s the Muscles” because when it comes to pain and resistance or trouble in the body it starts with muscle adhesions and snowballs down from there. It’s still amazing to me as a bodyworker that the two most abundant and powerful aspects of the body are not medically understood or treated medically by the healthcare profession. You can’t plant seeds or plants with roots by raking the top of the […]

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Inflammation, ligament, manual therapy, MUSCLES, Naprapathy, soft tissue, spine, tendon • Tags: MUSCLES

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Big Pharma is Sued by Cities and States

June 1, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Cities and States Sue Big Pharma Firms That Profited From Peddling Addictive Opioids https://t.co/myVJN9TZc7 — Truthout (@truthout) June 1, 2018

Categories: DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, DRUGS, opioids

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What Are You Putting in Your Gut?

May 31, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

  The secret to longevity is in the microbiome and the gut @mcgillu @SciReports https://t.co/NgG0BDRdMG — Medical Xpress (@medical_xpress) May 31, 2018

Categories: DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, IMMUNE SUPPORT, Inflammation, MEDICINE, NUTRITION

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Gender Equity in Testing

May 23, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Males and females have sex-based differences in anxiety behavior. #Mice brain #structure linked with sex-based differences in anxiety behavior @CellReports https://t.co/ygmXajs3ok — Medical Xpress (@medical_xpress) May 22, 2018

Categories: BIOLOGY, gender, HEALTH, lab testing, SCIENCE • Tags: genderequity, lab testing, medical

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