We at the US Neurofeedback Center are big defenders of sleep. We know a good night's sleep directly affects your energy leves, your humor and you general health. Besides recharging your brain, sleeping helps us absorb new skills acquired doing that day and save fresh memories. Deprivation of sleep can affect your production of insulin (which can deregulate the sugar levels in your blood), weaken your immune system and have a significant effect on your mental health.
Read MoreMore and more, technology is used in favor of meditation. Through what has been called “transformative tech", software and hardware are created to aid people looking to take up this practice that is so helpful to our bodies and minds. Neurofeedback has been proved to help people looking to quiet down their minds and now other devices such as Muse are also been used.
Read MoreWe often discuss the impacts of Neurofeedback treatment on patients looking to cure or heal a specific condition. But more more often than not, this revolutionary technology also helps healthy individual boost their brain potential. People looking to destress after a hard day, to improve their sleep quality or just to expand their cognitive capacity all benefit from training with Neurofeedback for a couple of minutes a day.
Read MoreTo start 201 9 in the best possible way, we compile some tips from Hippocrates on how te head a healthier life. Often considered the “Father of Medicine", Hippocrates was a Greek physician from the Age of Pericles (around Fifth-Century Athens) who figured out some of the most important ways we can stay healthy.
Read MoreThe practice of training your brain with neurofeedback is a relatively new one, but the technology behind it has been around for a while. Neurofeedback machines work by using real time real-time displays of brain activity to teach self-regulation of brain function. The brain activity is measured by an electroencephalography (or EEG), which monitors your brain waves.
Read MoreI want to talk about my experience with hypnosis-induced talk therapy without invading my own privacy or the privacy of the man I received the treatment from. I came to Croatia expecting to receive one type of treatment but I ended up practicing yoga (antigravity and vinyasa), Plasma-wave therapy, sound-wave therapy, and hypnosis talk-therapy. I strongly believe in the synergies of using several modalities at once. Of course, the downside is that you cannot determine which modality caused your improvement and which, if any, did nothing at all.
Read MoreThe presence of parasites (or what I think are parasites) is the most persistent and greatest problem that I face. I've tried a half-dozen MDs, osteopaths, a dozen acupuncturists, a TCM parasite specialist, bodywork, chiropractors, craniosacral, Ayurvedic, Amazonian shamans, specialized TCM practitioners in South Korea, and I tried remedies from an intuitive homeopath over the internet.
Read MoreEarlier this summer I had the opportunity to spend almost four weeks in Zagreb, Croatia receiving treatment from the PlasamaSaal team. The team of four is run by Aaron who became interested in medicine after contracting a seemingly incurable parasite that migrated to his brain. Doctors told him that there was no safe pharmaceutical for him to take. Any pill might carry the side-effect of death, and thus there was no remedy. He eventually found a machine called the Plasma Wave, a German-made machine based on technology that’s nearly 100 years old. They have since expanded into using other machines that sit between Western Medicine and alternative medicine as well as hypnosis-talk therapy and aerial yoga.
Read MoreI looked for Reiki practitioners in Zagreb on a whim. The first result found a spa that was charging $120/session. Lol. A little steep. The second person had a very poorly designed website. I contacted him over email and he offered to have me come to his house.
Read MoreFor seven years now I have been fighting and testing positive for parasites. In 2011 I went to Mexico City for an internship. Two days after I returned I began bi-hourly diarrhea. Several tests for pathogens including parasites were all negative but after two weeks spent in the bathroom and bed I was given the commonly prescribed anti-parasitic, Flagyl, from an infectious-disease doctor.
Read MoreZagreb might be where you have your layover, but it’s probably not on your itinerary. The beach cities like Dubrovnik and Split seem to get all of the love. An acquaintance stopped by for four hours during a layover and told me that she felt like she’d seen everything. I had to tell her it’s one of the rare cities that gets better with time.
Read MoreCroatia is big right now. Yacht week. Hot beach destinations. It’s the it place for your Instagram story in Europe. And that was before they got to the final of the World Cup.
Read MoreLike myself, Bronwen Williams started her practice after experiencing trauma and injury. Her work is based on healing arts, shamanism, and yoga philosophy and her practice includes craniosacral therapy and bodywork. Here's what she had to say about the positive health effects of craniosacral therapy.
Read MoreDr. Joanna Fassl is a practitioner we really respect. She practices out of a beautiful apartment in SoMa and has several different modalities that she can draw on. In addition to being a chiropractor (she was the valedictorian of her Chiropractic Medicine class) she's an artist, musician, and yoga and pilates instructor.
Read MoreRenee Hahn's office is at 44 Gough at the Mission/Market St./Hayes Valley border. She has a doctorate in Chinese Medicine is a skilled acupuncturist and herbalist in addition to practicing craniosacral. She told me that Chinese medicine is the great love of her life. I found her style to be calm, cerebral, methodical, and deeply dedicated.
Read MoreThe second pillar in our trinity of concussion recovery is craniosacral therapy. Over and over again I hear stories of leaps of progress from craniosacral therapy. The woman who sold me my first neurofeedback machine got just as excited about craniosacral as she was about neurofeedback (she had also come to neurofeedback from a concussion).
Read MoreThere are two types of neuro-biofeedback (which is usually called neurofeedback), protocol based and dynamic. At San Francisco Neurofeedback Center we use Neuroptimal, which is dynamic neurofeedback. Dynamic neurofeedback does not try to "downtrain" or "uptrain" your brain into any particular frequency. Instead, it reads where your brain currently is and lets your brain make gradual changes back to its normal state. Dynamic neurofeedback has the benefit of being condition agnostic.
Read MoreThere are three therapies that come up over and over again as successful in helping people recover from head trauma.
1) Neurofeedback. It's gentle, it's straightforward, and you can do it by yourself at home. I'll dedicate the next post to why it's become so popular. In San Francisco it seems like every other person now knows what neurofeedback is. Exciting times.
Read MoreAs I noted in the last post, while I don't believe that your MD has the answers to accelerate your recovery from a concussion, there are a lot of good things that she will tell you to do. In this post I will talk about the advice that most MDs give and tools you can use to follow their directions.
Read MoreThroughout the years, Brazilian culture has learned how to harvest this natural abundance into their culinary. Here are some of their most loved (and healthiest) dishes and where you can find them during your next visit to the tropics.
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