What drove me to a life of villainy was the same impulse that convinced me to move to China in the first place. I was looking for something, an experience that held some kind of meaning. During my time abroad I did a lot of questionable things, and there’s nothing unique about that aside form the setting. We all did it.

This summer is shaping up to be one of the hottest on record. As we struggle to keep cool, it’s helpful to understand what our bodies can tolerate. In Part 2 of Combating Summer Heat, we explore Traditional Chinese Medicine recommendations for how to survive the hot season based on body type.

The causes of headaches are myriad; vasculature, blood pressure, electrical, muscular... Since acu-points galvanize the parasympathetic nervous system - which is responsible for many of these systems - most physiological causes of headaches can be moderated by their use.

In treating the entrepreneur population my focus is just as much in treating the symptoms as it is on restructuring how they think. I do this by leaning on two very old philosophical texts; the Art of War, and the Dao De Jing. These two books have very different purposes – one being warfare and the other the pursuit of virtue. However, despite this they share a lot of common themes which are just as applicable to running a business as they are to running a country, or running our own lives.

A common accusation against traditional Chinese medicine is that it’s pseudoscience. In reality, acupuncture's influence on molecular and biochemical pathways such as eATP, TRPV1, neurotransmitters, the HPA axis, and IL-6 has become an area of intense scientific investigation.