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Gut Brain Synchrony
Gut Brain Synchrony: short gut-brain courses, weekly goal-setting, and clinician-moderated discussion. Learn how sleep, anxiety, digestion and chronic illness connect, then bring your questions there. Your first 7 days are free.
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Fibromyalgia
Widespread pain, crushing fatigue, and a diagnosis that came with no plan. Fibromyalgia is not a black box: wandering, heavy, electrical and stabbing pain each point to a different driver, and the protocol walks them stage by stage.
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Lyme Disease
Chronic Lyme and the patterns that orbit it: MCAS, POTS, dysautonomia, long COVID. If kill-everything protocols never quite worked, the Lyme Remission Map is a different way out, built on terrain, biofilm and pressure instead of another round.
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Digestive Disorders
Bloating, reflux, SIBO, unpredictable digestion, brain fog that starts in your belly. Your gut is an ecosystem, and ecosystems are restored, not conquered. Start with diet, sleep and the gut-brain connection, then go deeper into SIBO, biofilm and why probiotics disappoint.
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Chronic Pain
Back pain, sciatica, arthritis, the aches that linger long after an injury should have healed. Something between “just take ibuprofen” and surgery: how to actually use a topical like Evil Bone Water, and the terrain work that supports lasting relief.
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COVID-19
Long-haul and post-viral illness through the lens of dampness: fatigue, mucus, biofilm, and an immune response that never fully reset. The stage-one protocol, three products and two exercises, is where to begin.
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Interviews, conference notes and what is new at the clinic: Brehan’s ASA 2026 keynote, conversations with Dr. Joshua Park and Dr. Yaron Cohen, and the occasional honest take on a wellness trend.
Community
Gut Brain Synchrony
Gut Brain Synchrony: short gut-brain courses, weekly goal-setting, and clinician-moderated discussion. Learn how sleep, anxiety, digestion and chronic illness connect, then bring your questions there. Your first 7 days are free.
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What is Gut Brain Synchrony?
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Why Do Chinese People Nap After Lunch?
Almost everyone in China naps after lunch. In Chinese medicine, the 1 to 3 PM window on the organ clock is a time to rest and…
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Why Do I Feel Nothing When I Hug Someone?
Hugging someone you love and feeling nothing is confusing, and it often brings up worry or guilt. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. explains how burnout and a depleted…
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Why Do I Pee More at Night Than During the Day?
If you get up to pee at night even when you didn't drink before bed, don't look at your bladder. Look at your legs. Water your…
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What Do Night Sweats Mean in Chinese Medicine?
Chinese medicine calls night sweating dao han, thief sweat, because it comes while you sleep and stops when you wake. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. explains what your…
Condition
Fibromyalgia
Widespread pain, crushing fatigue, and a diagnosis that came with no plan. Fibromyalgia is not a black box: wandering, heavy, electrical and stabbing pain each point to a different driver, and the protocol walks them stage by stage.
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Fibromyalgia: Start Here
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Is Fibromyalgia All in Your Head?
Fibromyalgia is not in your head. It lives in a sensitized nervous system, a disturbed gut and an autonomic system stuck in fight or flight. Here…
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What Are the Best Chinese Herbs for Fibromyalgia?
If fibromyalgia keeps coming back, the work may be happening in the wrong order. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac., explains the Chinese herbs he uses first for wandering…
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Fibromyalgia Movement Protocol: Self-Massage & Therapeutic Shaking
This companion guide walks you through every movement exercise in the protocol — Stage 1 neck and lymphatic massage for breaking up biofilm, Stage 2 abdominal…
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Fibromyalgia Protocol Stage 4: Circulation, Prostaglandins & Repair
Sharp, stabbing pain is the last layer driven by prostaglandins and inflammatory cascades. Stage 4 rebuilds circulation with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang tea, Evil Bone…
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Lyme Disease
Chronic Lyme and the patterns that orbit it: MCAS, POTS, dysautonomia, long COVID. If kill-everything protocols never quite worked, the Lyme Remission Map is a different way out, built on terrain, biofilm and pressure instead of another round.
Start here
Chronic Lyme: Start Here
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How to Avoid Post-Exertional Malaise
Post-exertional malaise usually lands 12 to 48 hours after activity, so the crash you blame on last night may belong to something you did two days…
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Why Am I Allergic to Everything I Eat?
If your list of safe foods keeps shrinking, you may not need to cut those foods out forever. Your immune system evolved to fight parasitic worms…
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Lyme Remission Map Series Part 5: What if I Don't Improve?
Learn what to do if your Lyme disease is not getting better.
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Lyme Remission Map Series Part 4: Multi-System Patterns
MCAS. Dysautonomia. Autoimmunity. Neuroinflammation. These aren't separate diseases They are part of. Dampness pattern
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Digestive Disorders
Bloating, reflux, SIBO, unpredictable digestion, brain fog that starts in your belly. Your gut is an ecosystem, and ecosystems are restored, not conquered. Start with diet, sleep and the gut-brain connection, then go deeper into SIBO, biofilm and why probiotics disappoint.
Start here
Digestive Health: Start Here
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How Does Chinese Medicine Treat IBS?
Chinese medicine reads IBS as a pattern, most often liver-spleen disharmony on top of weak spleen qi. Here is how those ideas line up with the…
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Which Is Better for You, Red Wine or Beer?
Red wine is warming, sour and sweet; beer is cooling and sour; Diet Coke is sweet, spicy and a little sour. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac., explains which…
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What Causes Constipation in Chinese Medicine?
In Chinese medicine, constipation has two main causes: stress, which we call the Liver overacting on the Spleen, and dysbiosis that builds heat in the intestines…
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Why Do Okinawans Live So Long?
Okinawans once reached 100 at three times the American rate, and genes are not the main reason. Their elders carry beneficial gut bacteria that antibiotics and…
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What Is the Root Cause of IBS?
Doctors are not taught what causes IBS, so many people are told to live with it. In Chinese medicine, IBS is a Liver-Spleen disharmony: a nervous…
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How Is Tea Used as Medicine in Chinese Medicine?
In Chinese medicine, tea is more than a warm drink. Every tea has a nature, from cooling to warming, and the right cup is the one…
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Chronic Pain
Back pain, sciatica, arthritis, the aches that linger long after an injury should have healed. Something between “just take ibuprofen” and surgery: how to actually use a topical like Evil Bone Water, and the terrain work that supports lasting relief.
Start here
Chronic Pain: Start Here
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Why Do I Keep Getting Migraines?
If you constantly have migraines and your doctor cannot figure out why, the pounding pain is the symptom, not the cause. In Chinese medicine the root…
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What Do Dark Veins Under the Tongue Mean?
Dark purple or blue veins under your tongue are the classic sign of blood stasis in Chinese medicine. Here is what that means, why recurring headaches,…
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How to Stop a Migraine Before It Starts
A migraine starts hours before the pain, with yawning, cravings, fatigue and a stiff neck. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. explains what the prodrome is, what the hypothalamus…
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Why Did I Wake Up With a Stiff Neck?
If you wake up with a neck so stiff you can barely turn your head, stop blaming your pillow. Chinese medicine calls it falling pillow, and…
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COVID-19
Long-haul and post-viral illness through the lens of dampness: fatigue, mucus, biofilm, and an immune response that never fully reset. The stage-one protocol, three products and two exercises, is where to begin.
Start here
Long Haul Post-Viral: Stage One
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Fall-Proof Your Health: A TCM Guide to Staying Healthy
It's that time of year again… Pumpkin spice lattes are back, and so are seasonal viruses. While I can't stop you from spending half your paycheck…
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Post Viral Pain
Learn about intricate world of long-haul post-COVID, its manifestations, and the holistic approach to healing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDLRmdHUKYThe Pain is a Feature, Not a Flaw One of the prevailing…
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Fungus, Diabetes, and Long Covid
1 in 10 Americans have Diabetes; 1 in 3 are Prediabetic. The CDC may not have the best reputation right now but they do track this…
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The Damp Plague causes Diabetes
You read that right. Here’s the study, you’re 40% more likely to get the ‘beetus after Covid.
Updates
News
Interviews, conference notes and what is new at the clinic: Brehan’s ASA 2026 keynote, conversations with Dr. Joshua Park and Dr. Yaron Cohen, and the occasional honest take on a wellness trend.
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Does Gua Sha Help With a Sore Throat?
A woman's neck covered in red stripes three days after a Chinese medicine treatment for a sore throat, and her voice fully back. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac.,…
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Does Oil Pulling Actually Do Anything?
Oil pulling is basically harmless, and there is some very limited evidence that swishing coconut oil reduces Streptococcus mutans and plaque-related bad breath. It has no…
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What Do Your Feet Say About Your Health in Chinese Medicine?
Itchy feet, toenail fungus, heel pain, tingling, swelling and night cramps each point to a root pattern in Chinese medicine. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. explains what your…
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What Is the Difference Between Western and Chinese Medicine?
Western medicine names a disease and blocks the signal. Chinese medicine asks why the body is sending it. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac., compares the two side by…
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How Does Chinese Medicine View Health?
Chinese medicine measures health by quality of life, relationships and experiences, not only by whether your labs are normal. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. explains the body as…
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