Braxton P. Healthy Living Professional

Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Blog author Braxton Ponder is a Licensed Acupuncturist whose work has taken him around the world,... Full Bio
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Discounted Professional Grade Vitamins & Supplements by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Physiologics SupplementsNow available using my professional discountI’m pretty excited about this! Physiologics is one of the few nutritional supplements manufacturers t ... Read on »
My Birdfeeder is a Midnight Buffet by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It must be autumn in the mountains. All the creatures seem to be stocking up on calories for the winter, or for a long migration to somewhere warmer. Either way, everybody is ... Read on »
Dieting Doesn’t Work – So What Does? by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Maintaining a healthy weight may be the single best thing we can do for our health. Carrying extra pounds, together with our typically poor diets and low activity levels, is a ... Read on »
Dieting Doesn’t Work – Here are Two Plans that Do by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine In my companion article, I discussed the importance of healthy eating and an effective exercise program to fitness, as well as the difficulty of finding good information and a ... Read on »
Flu Vaccinations Revisited by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Influenza season is coming, and with it, the latest recommendations for vaccinations. I have been reluctant to recommend them in the past. As a minimalist regarding pharmaceut ... Read on »
Your Genes Are What You Eat by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Just as some people like to believe their current circumstances were preordained in a previous life, or in an alternate reality, scientifically-minded folks may feel certain t ... Read on »
Folic Acid Fallacies by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine By now, you should be suspicious of the idea that pills or supplements offer better nutrition than real food. And yet, I realize the possibility of a magic bullet that would a ... Read on »
Is Eating Organic Worthwhile? by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine There’s a new, big meta-study published recently that attempted to evaluate the benefits of organic food. Over 160 studies were initially looked at, but the researchers ... Read on »
Enough, Already, with the Diet Fads by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I frequently get asked about the latest miracle weight loss plan. Most weight loss products are either useless or worse - many contain products design to work as diuretics, pu ... Read on »
An Introduction to Cupping by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine There is an interesting treatment technique in Traditional Chinese Medicine known as cupping. It’s not used a lot in the West and not well known here in the States. A fe ... Read on »
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Acupuncture Needle? by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Occasionally I get reminded that a lot of people who could benefit greatly from acupuncture are too fearful of needles to even give it a try. Since I spend my day sticking nee ... Read on »
Selling the Flu Shot by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It’s the time of year when all my biomedicine newsletters and other resources start recommending the influenza vaccination. It used to be that infants and the elderly we ... Read on »
Selling the Flu Shot by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; ... Read on »
Stop Smoking with Acupuncture by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I am frequently asked if acupuncture can help with smoking cessation. The answer is a qualified “Yes.”I have found that acupuncture can be very helpful with the cr ... Read on »
Is Coffee Truly Bad for You? by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine two girls one cuptwo girls one cup2 girls 1 cup video2 girls 1 cuptwo girls and a cup2girls and a cuptwo girls one cup original videotwo girls one cup2 girls 1 cuptwo girls an ... Read on »
Treating Intestinal Parasites with Chinese Herbs by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Acupuncture is perhaps the best known aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in America. But an important branch of TCM is its highly developed approach to herbal medici ... Read on »
Back Pain and Sciatica - Evaluating Your Options by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine You’ve been hurting for months. You can’t stay on your feet for more than a few minutes. It hurts to sit for too long. Recently you can’t get a good night&rs ... Read on »
Feeling My Way around a Fiber Festival by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Everybody loves a festival, even the folks who shave furry animals and make things out of their soft natural fibers. My home town hosts an annual Fiber Festival, with up-close ... Read on »
Another Piece of the Dieting Puzzle by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Are you confused by the conflicting reports about low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets? Dieters aren’t the only ones. The researchers who design studies, even when they tr ... Read on »
Burn, Baby, Burn! Or, How to Save Your Skin by Braxton P. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth MavenComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It’s almost that time of year when people lay out to sizzle in the sun, like so many fillets crisping in the frying pan. Others will be out gardening, working or playing ... Read on »