by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
We concluded the last post with a discussion of the contribution of Samuel Hahnemann to symptom diagnosis and homeopathic treatment. The key idea was that diagnosis and treatment required a full assessment of the individual patient’s larger life situation. The point...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
My last post began a discussion of important historical figures in health diagnostics who laid the ground work for recognizing the importance of not neglecting the fundamental mind-body connection. Arguably, the most important of these was Samuel Hahnemann. Known as...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The earliest physicians understood that health encompassed the mind, body and spirit. This insight can be traced back to the 2nd century. with Claudius Galen, an influential Roman physician, who noticed that any part of the body can affect any other part through...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Over the last year and a bit that I have been writing this blog, we’ve covered a lot of material. I began way back at the outset with the project of dissecting the conventional SOAP approach to patient evaluation. Though we’ve taken many detours and required some deep...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Recently, Dr. Daniel Amen has performed functional studies of tens of thousands of brains. Many “mood disorders” can actually be visualized as distortions and concavities in the actual brain and can be readily repaired with proper nutrition and “brain food.” When...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Anti-depressants interfere with the brain’s natural self-regulation of serotonin and other neurotransmitters. The brain can over correct once medication is suspended, triggering new depression. All forms of antidepressants disturb the brain’s natural...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Let’s refocus discussion on the therapeutic effects on patients. Evolutionary psychologist Paul Andrews, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, is the lead author of a 2011 article in the journal Frontiers of Psychology....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Let’s follow up on our last post (https://www.bowencollege.com/psychiatrys-role-in-the-suppression-of-emotional-symptoms/) on the history of psychiatry. It is interesting to note that both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) and DSM-II,...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The history of psychiatric medicine offers an illustrative example of just the kind of Cartesian-based misunderstandings about the mind-body connection that leads to ideas about emotional suppression which I discussed in my last post...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In the last couple posts (https://www.bowencollege.com/insights-from-gabor-mate-on-emotions-and-health/) I discussed the implications of the faulty assumption that somehow people suppressed their emotions. We’ve seen why this doesn’t make sense and can’t be true....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In another post (https://www.bowencollege.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-emotional-suppression/) I addressed the widespread myth of emotional suppression or repression and explained how this construct misunderstood and misrepresented the healing process and health...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my other post (https://www.bowencollege.com/emotional-release-and-good-health/) we explored the idea of suppression. The body is not equipped to suppress itself. Illness is either expressed through signs and symptoms or released through elimination or...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In my last post (https://www.bowencollege.com/the-double-edged-sword-of-expressing-our-emotions/) we considered the shortcomings of both suppression and expression as means for dealing with emotional trauma. Today we’ll consider the third option: releasing. ...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
I applaud Dr. Charles D. Hoffe for taking the extra step to alert Dr. Bonnie Henry and hope to see more of our physicians and medical staff taking the time to report all reactions whether large or small. The jab has been rolled out to people all across the country...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Chronic pain is a debilitating symptom that affects our mind, body, and inner well-being and often leads to the prescription of opioids which are powerful pain-reducing medications that include oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone, and many more. Unfortunately, once on...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
I’ve spent quite a while now discussing the symptom as a bodily function. Now I’d like us to look at the emotions as symptoms. Given that at least one-tenth of the North American population is taking some form of anti-psychotic medication, what we perceive to be the...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Dr. Ryan Cole is the CEO and Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics, one of the largest independent labs in the State of Idaho. Dr. Cole is a Mayo Clinic trained Board Certified Pathologist. He is Board Certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He has expertise in...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
So glad you ended up here. Most people wait to deal with the consequences of their inaction. They wait to be sick, to be in pain, to suffer from all kinds of chronic conditions. And thank Godness, your body is smarter than you think- because of course, it can deal...
