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Peripheral Neuropathy

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The Stomach Pathway: It's More Than Just Digestion

Let's talk about "The Stomach Pathway". From an acupuncture perspective, it's not just about digesting your latest meal. It's way more interesting than that. 

The Stomach Pathway is like a highway that runs through your body with 45 pit stops along the way. This pathway starts at your eyes, travels down your torso, and finishes up at your toes. Surprisingly, the actual stomach itself is only ONE stop along this journey. 

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Retirement is GREAT: Unless Your FEET Hurt!

Middle age. It’s that bridge between your younger years and your older years—when you have learned a few life lessons, your career is a little more established, perhaps you have a little more money to play with, and maybe a little more time because you kids are grown. 

Walking across that bridge into your your ‘Golden Years’ can be a lovely experience… Unless your FEET DON’T WORK!

Then it SUCKS! It hurts. It’s disappointing. It’s sad. It’s frustrating. 

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Peripheral Neuropathy: Mary got her LIFE Back!

Peripheral Neuropathy is a chronic progressive disease. Pain, burning, pins and needles, loss of balance and now numbness. She’d learned to live with her symptoms. She’d always hoped that the gabapentin and the neurontin she was taking would eventually help her get better, but it didn’t.

She looked me in the eye and soberly shared the raw details of her reality. and whispered...

‘Sometimes’ my feet go numb and I can barely feel the brake pedal in her car… 

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Peripheral Neuropathy: Her Toes Were Numb…

One evening, Teresa was relaxing in her living room with her feet up, reading the newspaper. She paused to look up over the edge of the paper, and realized that her cat was licking her toes…. She didn’t FEEL the cat licking at her toes. She SAW the cat licking her toes.

Teresa could NOT feel the cat licking her toes because the nerves in her feet were dying. Her Peripheral Neuropathy
had progressed to a new stage. Numbness.

Not being able to feel your cat lick your toes may not seem like a big dea…

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