The Evidence for Acupuncture
05/27/20 • 57 min
There's a lot of fascinating research being done that continues to bridge the gap between Chinese Medicine and the conventional western medical approach. Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman joins this conversation to discuss what she's been seeing in the research of Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.
Using her expertise across multiple medical disciplines, Dr. Koppelman shares with us how drawing on a variety of approaches gives us the flexibility to meet people where they are in their health journey.
On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
- How we can try to chart a heathy, sustainable path forward through the COVID-19 pandemic
- What she’s excited about in the world of acupuncture research right now
- Why she finds the research around ATP and adenosine so interesting
- How different philosophies of science can affect the interpretation of data
- The importance of having more than one map or model for how things work
Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman is passionate about helping people to optimize their health and improving access to safe and effective medical care through advocacy and education.
She came to integrative healthcare after overcoming several chronic illnesses using integrative approaches, which conventional medicine was unable to help her treat. She earned an MSc in Acupuncture in 2012 from the Northern College in the UK and a second MSc in Nutrition and Functional Medicine in 2015 from the University of Western States. She also has a diploma in hypnotherapy, which she enjoys weaving into her treatments.
She sees patients both online and at her practice in Rhode Island, Harbor Integrative Health, and is the Executive Director of Evidence Based Acupuncture.
Links:
Episode 161: Anxiety & The Inner Critic - A Kinder Approach
Episode 177: Microbiome Biohacking with Dr. Andrew Miles
Connect With Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman:
Harbor Integrative Health Facebook
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There's a lot of fascinating research being done that continues to bridge the gap between Chinese Medicine and the conventional western medical approach. Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman joins this conversation to discuss what she's been seeing in the research of Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.
Using her expertise across multiple medical disciplines, Dr. Koppelman shares with us how drawing on a variety of approaches gives us the flexibility to meet people where they are in their health journey.
On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
- How we can try to chart a heathy, sustainable path forward through the COVID-19 pandemic
- What she’s excited about in the world of acupuncture research right now
- Why she finds the research around ATP and adenosine so interesting
- How different philosophies of science can affect the interpretation of data
- The importance of having more than one map or model for how things work
Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman is passionate about helping people to optimize their health and improving access to safe and effective medical care through advocacy and education.
She came to integrative healthcare after overcoming several chronic illnesses using integrative approaches, which conventional medicine was unable to help her treat. She earned an MSc in Acupuncture in 2012 from the Northern College in the UK and a second MSc in Nutrition and Functional Medicine in 2015 from the University of Western States. She also has a diploma in hypnotherapy, which she enjoys weaving into her treatments.
She sees patients both online and at her practice in Rhode Island, Harbor Integrative Health, and is the Executive Director of Evidence Based Acupuncture.
Links:
Episode 161: Anxiety & The Inner Critic - A Kinder Approach
Episode 177: Microbiome Biohacking with Dr. Andrew Miles
Connect With Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman:
Harbor Integrative Health Facebook
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Medical Intuition
What happens when we stop trying to actively find the solutions for health problems and instead stop to listen to the information coming to us?
Megan Caper uses a whole other way of getting information about the body outside of the typical method of relying solely on thinking. To begin addressing the underlying iceberg of symptoms and patterns in her patients' lives, Megan's approach is to get out of the mode of thinking and into the mode of receiving in order to tap into other unconscious forms of knowing.
On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
- How Megan’s holistic lens views us as one system made of three different, but intertwined, components
- Why she felt like a piece was missing when she was studying pre-med and how that started her journey into intuitive medicine
- What it looks like to train the intuition and why she thinks everyone is intuitive
- Where the best use of medical intuition lies in dealing with health problems
- Her process for working with clients even though she’s not physically with them
Megan Caper is a medical intuitive, author, and speaker who has helped hundreds of clients who are frustrated with the lack of diagnosis or limited treatment options offered to them by traditional medicine. Megan uses her psychic abilities and medical training to look inside the physical, emotional, and energetic body, find the root cause of the illness, and set clients on the road to true healing. She can be found connecting the dots between science, spirituality, and compassion at www.megancaper.com
Links:
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Pause for Racial Justice #saytheirnames #podcastblackout
At a time when racism's effects on the US are on display, as they've been with the most recent slayings of unarmed Black men and women, it can be difficult to distill our feelings into words, but speaking out imperfectly is important and better than staying silent.
Thousands lives have ended too early due to issues of institutionalized racism. In an effort to catalyze both reflection and action, this episode will hopefully serve as a way to remember those we've lost and offer anti-racist resources and action ideas.
On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
- Why we need to eradicate the toxin of racism from our society the same way work to remove toxins from our bodies
- The yin and yang aspects to the work of dismantling institutionalized racism
- How we can seek to align our qi with our values of equality, justice, and love.
Links:
- Code Switch - NPR
- Anti-racism resources for white people
- This Historical Twitter thread
- So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (get the audiobook or kindle, it seems to be sold out)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
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