UC Berkeley students seeking acupuncture care can use SHIP insurance at Golden Leaf Community Acupuncture. Students will need a recommendation from the Tang Center in order to be able to use SHIP at our clinic. There is a copay for services.
Students who do not have SHIP insurance may be covered under the plans they are under.
Please do not hesitate to call us with your questions 510-549-3000.
What do you know about your cellular health? You should want to know, especially if you have a family or personal history of cancer or heart disease, or if you live a modern busy stressful life. Our bodies need healthy cells in order to function properly, and healthy cells need healthy diets including lots of antioxidants.
We are what we eat, and unfortunately, most of us don’t eat all that well. Our bodies need far more than the 3-4 daily servings of fruits and vegetables that we currently consume. Ten daily servings wouldn’t be too much to ensure that we’re getting enough antioxidants.
What are antioxidants? Antioxidants help neutralize free radicals (nope, they don’t live in People’s Park). Free radicals are cells that are unstable because they are missing an electron. They steal the needed electron from healthy cells, creating more free radicals. The weak, damaged or dead cells contribute to the onset of disease and to premature aging. The important lesson from this is that we need to consume enough antioxidants to keep our cells, and therefore our bodies, healthy.
So how do you find out about your cellular health? Golden Leaf Community Acupuncture recently got a Biophotonic Scanner that is built using Nobel prize winning research, to measure carotenoid antioxidant levels. We’ve been startled to see the low antioxidant levels for some clients who eat well and take supplements regularly.
To see more about the scanner, please check out this segment from the Dr. Oz Show:
Please call our office at 510-549-3000 to set up your appointment for a $20 scan and to talk about improving your cellular health. Its an easy 90 second, non-invasive process. We think you’ll find the results useful.
“The Emperor of All Maladies”, written by physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee is an elegant look at the history of cancer and its long entanglement with the history of humans.
Cancer has baffled humans for thousands of years and this book tells its story entwined with the stories of those who took it on as doctors, patients, lobbyists and politicians. It reads like a novel filled with behind the scenes drama of the politics that plays out when focusing on securing science research, spearheaded by Mary Lasker and Sidney Farber.
Dr. Mukherjee writes this book for his patients who have asked him questions and in it he begins to demystify cancer from a disease which has no cure to finally understanding some of its secrets in our own DNA.
This book is must have primer for anyone seeking answers about cancer as it synthesizes much information into a palatable format that is accessible to everyone.