Cindy's Blog Updates: Visceral Manipulation + Emotions & Disease

Cindy has been blogging on a range of topics, including visceral manipulation (I know, say what?!), insulin levels and breast cancer risk, and how emotions affect your health. Check out her recent articles below to get the scoop:

• Visceral Manipulation for Adhesions & More
  Cindy describes her experience with visceral manipulation, a technique that allows vital organs to move more freely, even when surgical adhesions are present. When organs cannot move freely, circulation becomes restricted, and dysfunction and pain can result, often in areas far removed from the source.

• Attitudes, Emotions & Disease
  Back in 1952, the Department of Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center found that diseases and conditions ranging from eczema and cold hands to migraines and hypertension were correlated to recurring attitudes and emotions in patients. Clearly something modern practitioners could still learn more about today. 

• Swearing Actually Helps with Pain!
  Cindy muses on a new study linking pain reduction to swearing. Researchers hypothesized that swearing would reduce tolerance of pain due to "catastrophizing." Lo and behold, 64 college students proved otherwise in a Keele University study in the U.K.

• Insulin Resistance & Breast Cancer - No Surprise
  Yet another case of the deadly consequences of chronic hyperinsulimia. Elevated levels of insulin in post-menopausal women bumps the risk of getting breast cancer up. Women with insulin levels in the top third had double the risk over women in the bottom third. Alas, I'm afraid it's going to be awhile before humans can turn this cycle around.