Barefoot Doctor's Journal

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For 5000 years Traditional Chinese Medicine has help people to relieve pain and achieve a healthy longevity naturally.

A comprehensive guide to natural health and healing, the Barefoot Doctor’s Journal seeks to empower it's readers to take control of their own health, find their own inspiration, help create healthier communities and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Internationally recognized experts in the fields of healthy aging and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Living Younger Longer Institute has helped hundreds of people each year to live healthy naturally.

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Providing members with the latest scientific research on the ancient healing secrets of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Get information, access to tools, and enjoyable opportunities for a lifetime of active adventure!

June 30, 2019
Joe Brady

Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has evolved over the last 5000 years into one of the modern world’s most popular forms of alternative and integrative medicine. Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine have come a long way. This is an exciting time to be involved in Traditional Chinese Medicine. When I went to my first scientific conference back in 1988, and doctors and other scientists heard that you did Tai Chi, Qigong or Traditional Chinese Medicine they treated you as if you were a witch doctor wearing a grass skirt and shaking a rattle. Now we are treated as respected colleagues with active recruiting efforts underway for greater research to improve the evidence base for TCM and to increase its use and efficacy in the modern world. This year for the first time all freshman at the Harvard Medical School will be required to take courses in TCM and Integrative Medicine.

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June 23, 2019
Joe Brady

Mind/Body Approaches for Substance Abuse

Licit and illicit drug use in the US continues to skyrocket. As the stress of the modern world increases people seek to escape the stress of daily life in many ways, some healthy and many times with unhealthy methods. Using drugs like alcohol, opioids and methamphetamines are contributing to a decrease in American life expectancy, while mind and body approaches for substance use disorders can be a more wholesome way to deal with stress. Recent studies have shown that Mind/Body approaches for substance abuse problems can be an effective way of dealing with withdrawal symptoms and with the underlying stress that lies at the heart of all addiction problems.

All drugs work by mimicking natural substances in the body. Opioids work by mimicking the natural pain reliever endorphins. Mescaline is almost identical to norepinephrine. Many types of mind and body therapies teach practitioners to access these natural pathways reducing the reliance on synthetic pathways.

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June 16, 2019
Joe Brady

Zhang San Feng Cultural Festival 2019

Zhang San Feng Cultural Festival, in association with DaoUSA and the Wudang San Feng Friendship Association of China, have joined forces to promote “Tai Chi for Humanity” in a celebration of unity, balance, and harmony.  

Join us again for the 22nd annual Zhang San Feng Cultural Arts Festival – July 6th and 7th, 2019 – to experience a “taste” of China.  Elks Lodge 3690 South Jason Street, Englewood Colorado 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

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June 9, 2019
Joe Brady

Arthritis Breaking a Vicious Cycle

For the more than 40 million Americans with Arthritis, Traditional Chinese Medicine offers a safe, natural and effective way to alleviate pain and prevent further damage. Learn to relieve aches & pains without drugs. According to the Mayo Clinic, a number of alternative medicine treatments can provide considerable relief.

Bing Ji – what is going on ?

Bi syndrome is the Chinese word for arthritis. It means painful obstruction syndrome. Whenever there is a blockage in the free flow of Qi (in this case nerve pain) or in the free flow of blood (in this case actual damage to the tissues) there is painful obstruction.

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June 2, 2019
Joe Brady

Cheer Up! Life is Good and Getting Better all the Time

We live in a world of six billion people. Every day enough bad stuff is going to happen to fill the evening news. This gives people a very distorted view of reality. In reality, Life is Good! We are currently living in the most peaceful, non-violent, prosperous times in all of human history and almost nobody knows about it.

Suffering from historical amnesia and media-driven myopia most people today are certain that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and that idea is utterly false. Every measurable indicator of violence has declined dramatically in the last few centuries and these declines have accelerated in the last fifty years. Murder rates in the 1200s were 100 times what they are today. Similarly, wars, genocide, and child abuse have declined dramatically and. Prosperity is up, people are getting smarter and more importantly, social scientists have a pretty good idea of why. The fact is that for the first time in world history we might be able to truly give peace a chance and evolve ourselves into more than just chimpanzees.

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