Author: d.conroy
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Continue Reading: Exploring Emotional ExhaustionIn August 2020, Drs. Kara Zivin, Kirk Brower, and Srijan Sen along with Rebecca Brownlee and Dr. Katherine Gold from Michigan Medicine’s Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology published the study “Relationship between faculty characteristics and emotional exhaustion in a large academic medical center” in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The…
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Continue Reading: A time of uncertaintyHello HHR friends, By now we’ve been bombarded with COVID-19 information, pandemic panic, and countless unknown scenarios. We’re stuck inside or wrapped up in our PPE outside. What can we control in this time of uncertainty? No one has all the answers, but here are a few nutritional tips offered through yours truly and on behalf…
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Continue Reading: Keeping up with the trends. Looking towards health in 2019.As I think back on 2018, one of the trends I heard about most from my health coaching clients was their curiosity about and use of products containing Cannabidiol (CBD) oil. The products have been hard to miss these days. I’ve personally seen them arranged neatly in displays at the grocery store, yoga studio, coffee…
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Continue Reading: Reduce Stress with Acupuncture and Healthy Sleep HabitsStress is a normal part of life, but when it gets out of control, it can interfere with your ability to function normally. Stress often leads to sleeplessness, which affects your emotional and mental health. Acupuncture and healthy sleep habits are a natural way to put a stopper in the continuing cycle of stress and…
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Continue Reading: Is it worth it to invest in wearable technology in the new year?So you’ve made your New Year’s Resolution. More exercise. More sleep. Fewer calories. Who needs to pay for an expensive trainer, health coach, or sleep specialist when there are so many gadgets on the market today that can hold you accountable. Monitoring sleep is a major incentive for people to purchase these devices so I…
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Continue Reading: Curious about marijuana and sleep?Have you, or anyone you know, tried using marijuana to help sleep? If so, you’re not alone. There is so much we still don’t understand about the relationship between marijuana and sleep. In this month’s blog, HHR has teamed up with The Conversation to discuss how marijuana affects sleep. In this article I discuss the latest…
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Continue Reading: What will the future be like in integrative healthcare? A sleep – health fantasyWe all like to dream every once in a while right? It’s only natural. Well, I’ve been doing a bit more dreaming as the landscape of health care is changing. If I had a unlimited funds, what would I build? Here’s my attempt at answering with a little sci-fi flare 🙂 The Center for Integrative…
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Continue Reading: Healing herbs- Are they for you?Have you ever drank a cup of chamomile tea before bed to help you sleep? If so, then some part of you believes in the use of herbal medicine. Herbal medicine has been used for centuries. It is still used today and can be a nice complement to your everyday health care. I recently visited…
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Continue Reading: Analyzing Acupuncture- My interview with an acupuncturistThis month’s blog focuses on acupuncture as an integrative part of health care. I sat down with a local acupuncturist, Brodie Buris, with whom I had met briefly when he was a guest speaker at my University of Michigan Integrative Healthcare class a few months ago (see HHR blog from October 2016). I decided to…
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Continue Reading: Naysay the needles? The power of acupunctureAs part of my training in integrative medicine this month, I was tasked to read and lead a discussion on a series of articles on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Among many of the varied topics on things like herbal remedies, cupping, qi-gong, etc, many of the articles discussed the research on acupuncture. Prior to these…
