FACELIFT BEFORE 50. REALLY?

 

In spite of noticeable signs of aging, when I turned 62 this year, I never considered facelift surgery. The picture is of me one month after my 62nd birthday.

I decided that my end-of-the-work-week look could be enhanced, but without pain and with a lot less commitment to months of recuperation.

Get this look yourself with excellent health, wonderful eating, acupuncture & herbal formulas to handle any illness, cosmetic tatoos (eyebrows, eyeliner and lips), a bit of under eye concealer, and a light foundation. Cost: Cosmetic Tattoos lasting a lifetime: $900; Concealer: $55; foundation: $55.

Patients Under 50 Get Best Long-Term Results from Facelift Surgery

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NERVES REACT BADLY TO FLU SHOT

One week after the flu shot, the patient came to me with severe buzzing in her feet, legs, pelvic/groin area and face.

She could not think of any environmental, food or physical reason for the symptom and could only associate it with having had a flu shot one week prior to the onset of symptoms.

Initially the buzzing was only in her feet but, as it worsened she started to feel it in her legs and within two weeks there was severe buzzing in her groin/pelvic area.

The OB/GYN could find nothing in blood tests or hormone tests to indicate a reason for the symptoms.  At the neurologists office, there was no forthcoming diagnosis and an MRI showed everything normal in the brain.

By the time the patient came for acupuncture, the buzzing was in her hands and arms, and she was experiencing muscle twitches in her cheeks.

The only thing that reduced the symptoms was if she went swimming.

I gave her every confidence that we could treat the symptoms with acupuncture and herbs.  Afterall, it was classic symptoms that were easily related to the Liver, Kidney and Spleen meridian–the very meridians I had successfully treated over my many years in the clinic.

After the first treatment using acupuncture and recommending an herbal foot & all-body bath, there was no improvement.  After the second treatment using slightly different points the patient had a few hours of milder buzzing but it increased over the next couple of days until it was back to normal.

After the third treatment, and adding a predominantly liver formula to Calm Liver Yang Rising, Secure Kidney Essence, Tonify Yin, and Calm the Shen, the patient had 3 full days of  symptom remission and she was back in the clinic before the symptoms increased.

Thinking about the fact that she had total remission of symptoms when she was swimming, I gave the patient a salt bath formula: alantoin, grey sea salt, spirulina and chloryphyll.

At her fourth treatment the patient was doing well with symptoms at a level 1, her confidence secured, and her fears totally alleviated.

The patient remains in treatment and, with her nurses degree behind her, she is recommending Traditional Chinese Medicine to her co-workers in the western medicine community!

 

 

 

Traditional Thai Massage: Stretch, release, lengthen and balance

Schedule a Thai massage this week and receive a 10% discount. Thai Massage is an incredible tool to help you handle the “winter blues.” During the cold winter months, your body goes into a more contractive state.

During the winter months you may experience:

Stiff and/or achey muscles and joints

Difficulty getting moving in the morning

Sadness or depression

Increase in sugar or caffeine cravings

A deep sense of cold or feeling cold “to the bone”

Thai Massage is a wonderful healing tool to even out the contractive state that winter ignites in your body.

Because Thai Massage is a deep energetic and physical healing treatment, it can balance your mood and general state of well being in addition to physically stretching and lengthening your muscles and increasing your circulation.

The combination of deep tissue bodywork, stretching, acupressure and systematic working of the Sen (energy) lines all helps to balance your body and improve your health. Thai Massage is a wonderful tool to combat the “winter blues.”

 

BEAUTIFUL FACE HEALTHY BODY

Detox is the new Exfoliate. Capture Holley’s glow, face & hair! It is a widely-accepted myth that the secret to healthy skin is cleanse-exfoliate-moisturize. Consider that skin beauty comes from within. Healthy body = beautiful face! Start with a basic digestive detox as your way to healthy glowing skin. The HBC Detox & Weight-Loss Pack contains everything you need to get started on the path to a healthy body & beautiful face. http://www.heavenlybodiesclinic.com/biodetox/detox_products/index.nclk

Holley started coming to Heavenly Bodies Clinic over 10 years ago. She started with the basic 7-day digestive detox, then went on to complete the Sauna Detox Program. After completing the Sauna Detox Program to rid her body of damaging toxins, Holley noticed a substantial difference in her skin tone and texture. In order to avoid re-entry of toxins on her face, Holley started using the Heavenly Bodies Clinic custom-made herbal products: Chen Pi Face Wash, Jasmine Finishing Oil, and Lengthen & Strengthen Herbal Shampoo. She gets her hair colored and cut in our 1-chair toxin-free salon at Sauna Center. You can see the amazing results in her photo: Beautiful Face Healthy Body!

Seaweed Detox Bath: Luxuriate in the opulence of the ocean

The holidays can be a time of high stress, parties that overextend you and overindulgence of food and drink. Soaking in a hot seaweed detox bath is an incredible remedy to help increase the blood and lymph flow, break down cellulite and move waste out of your body.

HBC’s seaweed detox bath uses not only organic seaweed from the coast of Maine, but also a blend of dead sea salts and himalayan salts as well as spirulina. Spirulina is rich in antioxidants (which reduce signs of aging in the body) and also boosts cellular health. The combination of ingredients in our seaweed detox bath can help to support adrenal health. When you are under high stress levels and eating lots of sugary foods or drinking alcohol…your adrenals are taxed. A few signs of adrenal fatigue include weight gain, trouble sleeping, insomnia, and poor digestion.

Directions for Seaweed Detox Bath:

Add bath mix to hot water as the bath is filling.

Get into the bath water before the tub is full–by doing this, your body will adjust to the temperature of the water. Fill the tub with very hot hot hot water so that your pores will open and your muscles will soften to the wonderful healing properties of the bath’s ingredients.

Soak for at least 20 minutes. You may begin to sweat as your  pores open and your body flushes toxins.

When you finish your bath, you can pat dry your skin and then use a body brush vigorously to continue to encourage circulation and a flush of toxins. Drink a lovely glass of cool lemon water and then snuggle into a long refreshing night’s sleep.

You will awaken feeling ready to greet the day with optimism and a clear head and will know you have partaken in the opulence of the ocean.

You can stop in to the clinic to purchase the Seaweed Detox Bath or order online at http://www.heavenlybodiesclinic.com/biodetox/detox_products/index.nclk

Happy Holidays from the HBC group!

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A FEAST FOR YOUR BODY

Nothing is IS BETTER THAN “ORGANICALLY GROWN” GREENS unless they are GROWN AT HOME GREENS…grown by someone who loves the earth, then shared with friends and baskets-full delivered to the neighborhood acupuncture clinic!

Since there are only two ways to get energy–food and air–both food and air should be the highest quality you can find to eat and to breathe.

Two dark greens, spirulina and chloryphyll,  are in our Detox Bath to calm your mind, clean your body, and nourish your brain. Order here: www.heavenlybodiesclinic.com/http://www.heavenlybodiesclinic.com/biodetox/detox_products/index.nclk

BEAUTY IS A PROCESS

Our Health and Beauty programs and products develop as our staff ages. The goal is always to have the best looks possible with the least amount of injections and surgery interventions.

We’re adding MAKE-UP APPLICATION seminars that are guaranteed to take years off!  Our L.A. Make-Up Specialist will teach you how to apply the makeup you own; she will teach you how to select the perfect makeup products for your skin, coloring and lifestyle; and she’s available to do your makeup for those special photo ops when you need it exactly right for the camera.

For a full, and on-going, beauty program start with QIGLOW, an acupuncture and topical herb program that enhances your looks by bringing your skin, eyes and hair to full health.  Your next step is PERMANENT MAKEUP APPLICATION so that your basic face shape is enhanced  24/7 with sculpted eyebrows, perfect eyeliner and peachy lips.  Then sign up for one of our signature MAKE-UP APPLICATION seminars to learn how to do-it-yourself-to-perfection for regardless of blemishes, wrinkles, lines, tired eyes, or dark circles–for everything from daily wear to photo-ops.

TCM & Fertility

Specializing in treating infertility means that we have a lot of patients who are now enjoying sleepless nights and messy diapers!  We are experienced in diagnosing the underlying cause of a couple’s inability to conceive so we can create herbal formulas that improve sexual  and homonal health and choose acupuncture treatments specific to the patient.

As months–and for some, years–drag on without conceiving, what is a natural part of the sexual life of  many couples–conception–can become a nightmare maze for others.  In a quest to start a family, couples engage in a process of western medical intervention that is confusing at best and stressful enough to negatively impact every aspect of the couple’s life.

Acupuncture and herbal treatment together has shown over and over again, by the stories from the patients themselves, that we can improve egg quality or sperm count, thicken the endometrial lining for a healthy environment for the growing fetus, and calm the anxiety associated with infertility. 

Gillian’s Journey with the HBClinic Weight Loss Program

I hated being fat.  So much so, that I didn’t realize how fat I was. My brain somehow wouldn’t let me see what I really looked like. Sounds odd, I know, but I think its common.

When I was on Active Duty in the USAF, I was required to maintain a certain weight.  It was just below what I weighed in college when I joined AFROTC.  I had a language degree and thought maybe I could “see the world” with the military. I had to learn how to control the weight, though.

For years I read magazines, talked to friends and coworkers, gathered all the tricks (some not so healthy) and maintained, just barely, the standard. When I left the active force, I joined the AF Reserve.  They have the same standards, but if they don’t see you every day sometimes it gets overlooked.

Somewhere along the way, my tricks stopped working. I cut out all fat, stopped eating meat, snacked on pretzels, not chips, ate lots of fruit, but it wasn’t working anymore.  In fact, I was gaining weight like crazy.  I knew I had to get it together, but I was really at a loss.  Then one day, I saw my friend Sharon.  She had to have been 15 pounds lighter than when I saw her last; it couldn’t have been more than a couple of months?  OK, maybe three?

After complimenting her, I begged her to tell me what she’d done.  When she said “acupuncture” I remembered a friend years ago in Germany who swore she quit smoking after a doctor stuck 5 needles in her ears.  (I was curious, but I didn’t smoke! Missed opportunity… )  Sharon offered to take me to her next appointment at the Heavenly Bodies Clinic so I could learn more.

I was embarrassed to tell Dr. Ana that I was there because I was fat and needed help (I think she knew, though–duh). I told her my reason for coming in was that my shoulders hurt. And they did, indeed–I had knots, couldn’t turn my head, couldn’t raise my arms over my head for more than a few seconds.  She agreed to help me with this pain, and after a few sessions, I decided to ask for help with my weight pain.

During the months of my weight loss program, Dr. Ana taught me how food works according to Traditional Chinese Medicine to deliver nutrition and energy to our bodies.  I asked lots of questions because what I was hearing was so different from what I “knew” about healthy eating, especially for weight loss.  Some of what I learned is now available to the general public since Atkins, Southbeach, and the other famous “diets” that focus on low carb dieting became so famous.  But the information Dr. Ana gave me was different–it was not a “diet”, it was just “how to eat” and how to think about food for energy and as medicine.

In six months, I lost 40 pounds. Tiffany’s Meridian Exercise changed the shape of my body so much I went from a size 14 to a size 6.  SIZE 6! Normally, “they” say you drop a size as you drop 10 pounds. As I was getting used to my new “heavenly” body, my sister sent me some photos from the past Christmas–7 months earlier–that she had just downloaded from her camera (she had a one-year old).  I called her and we both laughed (while I held back the tears).  We were amazed at how different I looked! Neither of us saw it back then, but I was truly shocked.  And excited, and happy, and grateful.

Whether you have lots or not so much to lose, talk to Dr. Ana if you’d like more information. And to make some changes. You’ll love the new you.

Waking up is hard to do: Qi Juice

I love coffee, but when I’m out of half and half I just can’t drink it.  That doesn’t happen often, but when it does, please let me have a lemon!  I have found that our wonderful Qi Juice is the perfect stand-in for coffee in the morning to wake me up and get me moving!

Of course, there are some other really amazing reasons to sip on Qi Juice through out your day, even if you have plenty of cream for your coffee.  Also called the Master Cleanser, Chi Juice keeps your body in proper alkaline balance, tonifies the Spleen Meridian, as well as boosting qi.  Here’s how to make it:

• 1 quart of water
• 4 lemons (or 2 lemons, 2 limes), pulp and all
• 1 tsp cayenne
• 1 tsp honey (or stevia to taste)

Mix the ingredients in pitcher, and sip on it all day!  You can enjoy this drink cold, hot, or at room temperature.

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