Let’s Talk About That Sleep Score
Sleep is more than a score. When devices misread the body, and we start trusting numbers over how we feel, we risk outsourcing our well-being to systems designed to serve shareholders, not health.
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General Blog
Why Word Of Mouth Matters
Digital ads and social media may be loud, but they rarely bring people through the door. For small clinics like ours, word of mouth is everything. When you share your experience, you help us survive—and you help others find care that really makes a difference.
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What Can We Help With?
Many people are surprised to learn how much Chinese medicine can treat. At Root and Branch, we support everything from chronic issues to acute illnesses, stress to digestion. We may not be primary care on paper—but we’re here to be your first call when something’s not right.
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You Are Enough
Listen in as Travis Kern talks with Stacey Whitcomb, host of the acusprout podcast, about founding Root & Branch and its mission to provide herbs for practitioners all across the country.
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Covid-19 and Natural Medicine
A message from practitioner Travis Kern, LAc about the intersection between Covid-19 and natural remedies marketed as preventative or curative: There are a lot of people out there promising a lot of things. Health and illness prevention have gotten political in a lot of corners. But you can navigate this situation to the best outcomes for you and your family.
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Why You and Your Parents Don't Need To Suffer As you Age
Everything I have seen in my short but lively career as a Chinese medicine practitioner suggests that most of the negative experiences we associate with the aging process need not come to pass . But in order to understand how our experience may differ from the common definition of aging, we must look at why suffering is a possibility as we age. Once we understand the problem, then we may understan
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Let's be honest... You are lying.
There are a lot of inflammatory ways that we discuss health and well-being. This food is poison, that activity will kill you! Have you heard about such and such causes cancer?! The thing is, there are a lot of things out there that are less than helpful for optimal living but when the language gets too loud, too bombastic, and too crass, it often becomes misleading and then it makes it difficult t
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Bulk Herbs and the Power of Decoction
Cooking herbs together allows their individual natures and flavors to blend together and enhance or subdue one another. This alchemy is the real power of Chinese herbal medicine and is almost entirely missing in most practitioner’s granule formulas. Remember that 汤 “tāng” means “soup” in mandarin and just like your chicken soup is not just the flavor or chicken and onion and celery but the marriag
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Chinese Medicine is NOT Energy Medicine
Chinese medicine doesn’t treat “energy” the way modern wellness often suggests. It’s not about fixing parts or channeling light—it’s about observing change, movement, and relationship within a world we’re inseparably part of.
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