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The primary treatment for insulin resistance is exercise and weight loss. Low-glycemic index or low-carbohydrate diets have also been shown to help. Both metformin and the thiazolidinediones improve insulin resistance, but are only approved therapies for type 2 diabetes, not insulin resistance, ”per se”. By contrast, growth hormone replacement therapy may be associated with increased [...]

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Growth hormone (GH) is a protein-based poly-peptide hormone. It stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. It is a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide hormone that is synthesized, stored, and secreted by the somatotroph cells within the lateral wings of the anterior pituitary gland. Somatotropin refers to the growth hormone produced natively [...]

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Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an experimental form of radiotherapy that uses a neutron beam that interacts with boron injected to a patient. BNCT depends on the interaction of slow neutrons with boron-10 to produce alpha particles and lithium nuclei, without producing other types of ionizing radiation. Patients are first given an intravenous injection [...]

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The Bowen Technique involves a gentle, rolling massage, with only very light contact. The ‘rolls’ are supposed to either tighten or loosen off muscles depending on the way the move is done. The practitioner will stimulate sets of vaguely described points, often with approximately two minute pauses, to allow the body to respond to the [...]

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Guided Self Healing draws from the four historical traditions in psychology plus an emerging fifth tradition. It pulls from cognitive behavioral therapy that people have beliefs that on a deeper level they know are limiting and untrue, and that transforming these beliefs, and the behavior that results from them, transforms people’s lives. Like cognitive behavioral [...]

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Moloney graduated from the University of Southern California in 1982 with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Cinema-Television. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and has won over 50 awards for his creative work in film, [...]

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The history of bioelectromagnetic medicine has been marked by confusion, controversy, and a profusion of quack devices. A number of notable people, Anton Mesmer, Albert Abrams, and Wilhelm Reich, introduced energy therapies that are considered to be fraudulent, even though they have many supporters. In the early 1900s a variety of electrotherapeutic devices were in [...]

Participants in Holotropic Breathwork sessions report a wide variety of experiences (Taylor, 1994). From observing many people in nonordinary and expanded states of consciousness, Grof developed what he considers to be a “cartography” of the psyche, which describes four main categories of experience. Sensory and Somatic: This realm of experience includes various hallucinatory phenomena, such [...]

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In 1951, Halprin was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her colon; this sudden shift in her life inspired her to investigate and create associations to make a personal ritual that helped her healing process. Her quest for healing encouraged the community around her and, with her daughter in 1978, she co-founded the Tamalpa Institute. [...]

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Psychodynamics is the systematized study and theory of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, emphasizing the interplay between unconscious and conscious motivation. The original concept of “psychodynamics” was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud suggested that psychological processes are flows of psychological energy in a complex brain, establishing “psychodynamics” on the basis of psychological energy, [...]

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