Kathleen Porter

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Kathleen Porter has traveled the world researching natural skeletal alignment in people who live without chronic pain, often because they have never lost what we all once knew as healthy toddlers. The author of Ageless Spine, Lasting Health: The Open Secret to Pain-free Living and Comfortable Aging and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Posture Affects Your Child’s Health & What You Can Do About It, she has taught principles of natural alignment through the University of Hawaii, the National College of Natural Medicine, and serves on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. A longtime meditator, Kathleen studied meditation in Myanmar (Burma) and owned a yoga studio for fifteen years on the Big Island of Hawaii. She is currently director of the Center for Natural Alignment in Portland, Oregon.



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    MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A controversial alternative treatment known as chelation therapy, in which a special infusion seeks to remove heavy metals from the body, did show modest benefits for heart patients, researchers report.

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    FRIDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Offering breast cancer patients a relatively short regimen of acupuncture alongside standard treatment can help alleviate some of the crippling fatigue that often accompanies the disease, according to a new study.

    The magnitude of help that patients unde...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Spirituality is the key to successful treatment using traditional Chinese medicine, a new study says.

    Researchers analyzed the origins and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and concluded that it is profoundly influenced by Chinese philosophy ...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A simple form of meditation can help stave off feelings of loneliness and may cut the body's inflammatory response -- which can trigger serious illness -- to distressing emotions, a small new study suggests.

    Researchers from the University of Californi...Full Article