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Insomnia and Natural Ways to Improve It

Insomnia is common but there are effective, natural ways to help insomnia. Insomnia can be defined as a problem falling sleep, maintaining sleep, waking up early or poor quality of sleep despite adequate opportunity for sleep. This usually results in some form of daytime challenge or impairment such as sleepiness, low energy or poor concentration. Various studies worldwide have shown the prevalence of insomnia is 10%–30% of the population, with some studies even as high as 50%–60%!

Health Tips for the Fall Season from Chinese Medicine

Health Tips for the Fall Season from Chinese Medicine

Fall brings harvest time, the beauty of the changing leaves, and less daylight. In Chinese medicine, fall is associated with the element of metal and the lungs. It is a time to slow down, go to bed early, regroup and begin to move and think inward in preparation for winter.

With the change to cooler weather comes your body’s attempt to cope and wild fluctuations in temperature which are giant stressors on the system, bringing on colds and flu.  Is there a way to prevent these seasonal health missteps?  Of course! 

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