The Spine: Gateway to Health
The human spine is comprised of 24 vertebrae (and 9 fused vertebrae in the sacrum and coccyx), 220 ligaments, over 120 muscles, over 100 joints, and over 13 million neurons. [...]
How to Awaken Your Inner Healer
I was half-asleep. It was a few minutes past 5:00 a.m. and the mornings larks were half-asleep, too. The sky was deep indigo. My house was rarely so quiet and [...]
Easing Anxiety in Times of Great Change
This blog is a supplement to a 40-minute interactive lecture I gave to nearly 3,000 live participants, sponsored by Sutter Health / Institute for Health and Healing on October 6, [...]
No Easy Answers (Except Maybe One)
This is the third in a series of articles: Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change. In these posts I've shared stories of some of the mentors in my [...]
Two Simple Ways to Release Grief
This is the second in a series of articles: Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change. In the spring of 2013, during my decade+ journey with chronic fatigue and vertigo, [...]
Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change: the Spaces In-Between
This is the first in a series of articles on timeless wisdom gained on a path of healing. For those who have read Brave New Medicine, you know my decades-long healing [...]
Up-To-Date Medical Information on Covid-19
First off, I want to take this time to encourage all of us, no matter what our health status, to focus on building our immune systems-- individual resilience makes for collective resilience. With many [...]
Is it a cold, the flu, or coronavirus?
Yesterday at my standard go-to grocery store in Berkeley, CA, the shelves that stock paper goods and bottled water were spare. The canned beans, soups, and pasta shelves: empty. I’ve [...]
Healing: Transaction or Transformation?
Happy LUNAR new year... here's to the year of the rat! New beginnings often prompt people to make a list of resolutions, myself included. When I quickly searched the Internet last [...]
Dr. Li’s Interview on KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny
Click HERE to listen. Cynthia Li was a successful doctor in her 30s when an autoimmune disease torpedoed her health. She and her doctors were baffled. Her test results were [...]