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CAM News, Vol I, Issue 7

July 2, 2006 by Werner Absenger

The Alternative Medicine Blog’s

CAM News, Volume I, Issue 7, July 2006



My dear friend,

As you might know, I have been enrolled in Everglades University’s Bachelors of Science Program with a Major in Alternative Medicine since January 2005. I am expecting to graduate in December 2007.

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Filed Under: Newsletter Archives Tagged With: Adolf & Maria Absenger Cancer Foundation, alternative medicine blog, crohn's disease, mind body communication, the future of food, Werner Absenger

Hence I Blog…

June 7, 2006 by Werner Absenger

Darren Rowse from Problogger challenges bloggers from around the globe about the goals of blogging with a group writing project. Well, I think it is time to step out of my introvert comfort zone and actually participate in a good thing. Darren's group writing project. I almost passed this one up, filed under: no time, what's the use? and any other excuse I could think of. I started to blog in March of 2006 with one simple goal:

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Filed Under: General CAM/MBM News & Research Tagged With: Acupuncture, allopath, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

Health Quotes

June 4, 2006 by Werner Absenger

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

Filed Under: Health Quotes Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

News at the Alternative Medicine Blog

June 4, 2006 by Werner Absenger

We have been busy behind the scenes updating and playing with different formats, styles, layouts and widgets to bring you an easy to navigate, easy to follow blog. I know that you will agree that our activities have dramatically improved the Alternative Medicine Blog dramatically.

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Filed Under: General CAM/MBM News & Research Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

Health Quotes

June 3, 2006 by Werner Absenger

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.

Robert Hutchison, 1932

Filed Under: Health Quotes Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

How the Mind and Body Communicate (part ten)

June 3, 2006 by Werner Absenger

Immune Modulators and Chemical Messengers Summary

Cytokines or immune modulators are the chemical messengers of immune cells. Cytokines are composed of hormone-like lymphokines, which are soluble proteins released by activated T-cells, and monokines that are released by macrophages. To name some of the cytokines:

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Filed Under: Mind-Body Medicine & Cancer Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

Health Quotes

June 2, 2006 by Werner Absenger

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

Yiddish Proverb

Filed Under: Health Quotes Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

How the Mind and Body Communicate (part nine)

June 1, 2006 by Werner Absenger

Neuropeptides

Neuropeptides typically affect the neurons they targeted at lower concentrations than the usual neurotransmitters. Neuropeptides are short strings of amino acids having a great variety of effects. They can act as hormones, neurotransmitters, and neuromodulators. Some of the neuropeptides take action as neurotransmitters at some synapses and as neuromodulators at other synapses.

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Filed Under: Mind-Body Medicine & Cancer Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

How the Mind and Body Communicate (part eight)

May 31, 2006 by Werner Absenger

Chemical Messengers

We do have chemical messengers in our system that the brain and the nervous and immune systems use to relay signals to each other.(1) These chemical messengers journey throughout the lymphatic system and blood to deliver their communiqués. These chemical couriers are:

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Filed Under: Mind-Body Medicine & Cancer Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

How the Mind and Body Communicate (part seven)

May 30, 2006 by Werner Absenger

The Stress Response

Anxiety, fear, and other powerful emotions can signal the sympathetic nervous division of the ANS to elicit the stress response. As a result blood flow to skeletal muscles is increased and endocrine gland activity is adjusted. (1) To repeat again, the only two pathways of the stress response are the HPA axis and the SAM axis. Once these routes are activated, a myriad of neuroendocrine changes are launched.

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Filed Under: Mind-Body Medicine & Cancer Tagged With: Acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, body, chiropractic, complementary, diet, dieting, exercise, Health, herbology, herbs, holistic, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, integrative, massage, massage therapy, medicine, meditation, mind, mind body communication, mind-body, non toxic, nutrition, prevention, promoting health, spirituality, therapies, therapy, vitamin, vitamins, Werner Absenger

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