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Do you prefer soft floating fabrics or something more structured and formal? Do you love being by water or prefer walking in the country? Are you quick to anger or someone who keeps things bottled up? Are you naturally lean and muscular or is your body more curvy and rounded? Do you come alive in […]

Eyes are often called the window to the soul but they are also a window to your health. When I meet a patient for the first time I always look at their eyes for clues about their well being. We all know that our vision decreases with age, but did you know that you can […]

I love Greece: I love the people, I love the beautiful islands, and most of all – I love the food. Noah and I were lucky enough to be able to visit Greece for a holiday and recently returned from a happy week in the Ionian where we ate heartily, reveling in the beautiful, fresh […]

Spring is a great time to do a cleanse, but some cleanses aren’t particularly safe when you are trying to get pregnant. A lot of popular cleanses today involve fasting or just drinking juices/water, which can be draining to the vital energies needed to get pregnant. Chinese Medicine generally advises against strict fasting and recommends […]

Many women dread the last week of every cycle because of how irritable and miserable they feel. Chinese medicine has been treating premenstrual symptoms for thousands of years and here at the YinOva Center we have drawn on this traditional wisdom to help modern New Yorkers address their PMS simply and effectively. Many of our patients are surprised and thrilled to find out that PMS can be solved and that they don't have to put up with feeling moody and uncomfortable every month.

Mung Beans are prized throughout Asia for their nutritional and medicinal benefits. It’s worth having some of these small green beans on hand because, unlike other beans, they don’t need any soaking making them particularly handy when you need to whip up a healthy meal, quickly, from the contents of your store cupboard. In Ayurveda, […]

I wrote my first book, Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility, with a doctor, and in the book both Dr. David and I, strongly suggest that couples wanting to conceive should incorporate a fertility-friendly lifestyle. Your diet is one of the main ways you can change your body chemistry every day, which is why […]

For hundreds of years, chicken soup has been a traditional remedy for a cold. Our grandmothers swore by it and each culture has a version of this healing recipe. These days Western scientists have begun to study chicken soup and have found that it has healing properties because it contains natural chemicals similar to those […]

Whenever I talk about breast cancer prevention I am very conscious of my patients who are currently dealing with this illness. I want to avoid making them feel as if they did something wrong. Too often cancer patients beat themselves up for things they did and things they wished they’d done. I don’t want to […]

Dates may be the most popular fruit in the Middle East and North Africa, and they are cherished in both culinary and traditional medicine practices. Historically used to treat fever and promote wound healing, dates are also believed to have benefits for those preparing for childbirth.   Myth or fact? You may have heard that […]