Show 1042: How Acupuncture Can Help You Overcome Health Challenges
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
An ancient Chinese medical modality is gradually gaining converts in the US. In acupuncture, a skilled practitioner inserts thin needles into specific points on the body. The problems that may be treated this way range from allergies and sinusitis to heartburn, PMS, menstrual problems and hot flashes. In addition, this approach is frequently helpful for painful conditions such as headaches, tender muscles or sore joints.
How Acupuncture Can Help You:
When acupuncture was first introduced to this country several decades ago, conventional medical practitioners were skeptical. Now there is research evaluating its safety and effectiveness.
Will acupuncture help you enjoy better health? We discuss the answers to these questions:
- Where are the needles placed?
- Is there a risk of infection?
- Which conditions respond best?
- Does a treatment hurt?
- What is the evidence for effectiveness?
This Week’s Guests:
Remy Coeytaux, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is co-founder of Chapel Hill Doctors Healthcare Center. Dr. Coeytaux also serves on the board of directors of the Society for Acupuncture Research. His research on acupuncture to ease hot flashes was published in Menopause (June, 2016).
Cholena Erickson, Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac., O.M.D.), practices acupuncture at Chapel Hill Doctors Healthcare Center.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
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| 0:29.6 | Acupuncture has been used by Chinese healers for thousands of years, but Western physicians don't understand how or even if it works. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:47.9 | When acupuncture was first introduced to this country several decades ago, conventional medical |
| 0:56.0 | practitioners were skeptical. Now there's research evaluating both its safety and its effectiveness. |
| 1:02.6 | Acupuncture has been used for everything from headaches and osteoarthritis to menstrual cramps and hot flashes. |
| 1:09.0 | Is there science to support its effectiveness? |
| 1:12.0 | Can acupuncture be integrated with 21st century medicine to overcome hard-to-treat health challenges? |
| 1:18.6 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we talk with two practitioners about the art and science of acupuncture. |
| 1:26.1 | First, this news. |
| 1:30.2 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, |
| 1:33.4 | pomegranates have a reputation as superfood, |
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| 1:39.5 | Researchers in Switzerland have found |
| 1:41.2 | that a compound called urolithin A, |
| 1:46.8 | derived from pomegranates, can boost performance in old mice. Gut bacteria make urolithin A when they metabolize the pomegranate |
| 1:53.2 | component, alagetanin. Other fruits and some nuts also contain, a lachitanin. The mice given urolithin A were able to run 42% |
| 2:03.8 | longer than those who did not receive the compound. Experiments in laboratory worms found that |
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