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· Travis Cunningham

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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· Travis Cunningham

How Bugs Can Heal Chronic Pain & Disease

“I hate to sound like a broken record,” said one of my teachers, “but a lot of her problem is due to blood stagnation .” I smiled at Greg’s remark. It was a familiar piece of advice, but one that bared repeating. Greg was one of the few westerners to go to China, learn chinese, finish a P.H.D. in Chinese medicine, and then study with various doctors who had decades of clinical experience. “But why

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· Travis Kern

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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· Travis Kern

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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