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Acupuncture Northwest & Associates is the proud sponsor of the Seattle chapter of RESOLVE, the national infertility support group, for 2018!  Come out to a meeting! Here's some information from their website: "We meet the fourth Wednesday of each month at...

Come and Join us on April 21st from 10 am -12 pm at Greenlake for a Race for Fertility! Proceeds (and donations from fertility clinics) will go towards funding IVF cycles for winners! It will be fun and a great cause!...

On February 16th, we will be entering the year of the Earth Dog. According to Chinese Zodiac, people who are born into the year of the dog are Honest, Loyal and Hard-working. The characteristic of loyalty is most defining, as...

Is your health condition stress-related?  Whether you realize it or not, it might be.  Many studies have proven that mental/emotional “stress” causes physical changes in the body, which can lead to health problems.  It has also been shown that the...

Here’s a wonderful article and recipe from our very own, Julie Booker. She is an acupuncturist in our Seattle office and a board member of ABORM, the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine. I can attest to her wonderful baking...

For thousands of years, Chinese herbs have helped couples have fertility success and healthy babies. In 3494 BCE, Emperor Shen Nung began experimenting with herbs and recording valuable information on their medicinal properties. Over the next 5000 years, herbal practitioners...

Kaci Aitchson came into our office a few weeks ago and filmed me treating a patient and then interviewed me about treating infertility with Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Two segments came out of that interview. Here they are! Eastern medicine and...

Both Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine can agree: the benefits to breastfeeding your baby are tremendous. Both mother and baby benefit from this bonding (and sometimes frustrating!) experience in emotional and physical ways

Many of us know or have loved ones with a cleft lip or palate. I, myself, have a cleft lip; my mother as well. In utero, the lip forms between the fourth and seventh weeks of pregnancy, the palate during the...

Listen to Lora and Stephanie speak about recurrent miscarriage when they were interviewed by Kate Daniels of the radio show, Inspirational Women. They discuss Lora’s new book, Not Broken, An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss and the concept...