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Now that's a bad day

Back in my days of living the financial services life in Boston, I had a friend, Andy, who worked on the sales team for a computer security company. Think of the kind of security measures banks put in place to keep hackers from taking all their clients’ money with a few keystrokes.

One of Andy’s sales team cohorts, Joe, was a former FBI field agent. At one point the whole team was working to seal the deal with a really big client. They were almost done when a small snag threatened to undo the whole sale and consequently the entire sales team’s annual bonuses. Andy was pretty well losing his stuffing but Joe remained his typical collected, calm self.

Andy said, “Joe, how come you are always so calm? Why aren’t you freaking out now?”

Joe answered, “Andy, in the course of my previous career, I had a loaded gun held to my head by someone who seriously wanted me dead- on multiple occasions. Do you really think it’s going to freak me out if a contract is 30 minutes late getting signed?”

Andy confessed to me later that Joe’s answer provided some much needed perspective on the situation.

The classic Chinese herb formula, Xiao Yao San, on which we base our Decompress formula, is colloquially described as “good for stress.” People ask me how that’s possible, suggesting quite correctly, “Taking herbs can’t make stressful stuff stop happening.”

No doubt, neither Xiao Yao San nor its American cousin can stop stressful stuff from happening.Your boss will still be an ineffectual idiot (more…)

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Is this hanging on your metaphorical tree?

In the summer I find it entirely too hot to run outside, and so confine my training activities to the treadmill at the gym. Lately I have been going in the mornings, and have noticed that one of the many televisions intended to distract me from the unsatisfying pursuit of what is essentially running in place has been consistently showing infomercials for health related products. Some of these I find inspiring- like the set of DVDs that promise I will have Marine worthy abs in only 90 days. Some of these I find intriguing- could making my own juice everyday really change my life or just blow my grocery budget? And some of these I find just plain silly- really, that special devise/ colon cleanse/ air filter will rid my body of 35 years of accumulated toxins in a matter of weeks?

I once had an acupuncture patient, a real estate agent, who came to see me weekly for his nasal allergies. Over the course of treatment, his symptoms were improving- that pesky chronic sinus infection finally cleared up and his daily symptoms were lessened- but they just weren’t completely resolving. One day Real Estate Dude asked me about some special foot patches he had seen on late night TV that were supposed to rid your body of toxins overnight, while you sleep, that would miraculously cure your health complaints. He wanted to know if I had any opinion on this topic.

I told Real Estate Dude quite honestly I suspect that yes, there are lot of things in our daily environment that crud up our bodies- air pollution, water pollution, and so on- and then our bodies don’t function optimally. And probably there is some scientific validity to the idea that those toxins can be encouraged to leave the body through the soles of the feet. After all, the pores on our skin will release all sorts of stuff with sweat and the soles of the feet have tremendous ability to sweat.

But then I went on to suggest that perhaps low-hanging fruit are the way to go. (more…)

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It’s only July and over a hundred degrees here in Central Texas.  While December might seem like a lifetime away, we on the Herbalogic team realize that we have to start gearing up for allergy season.  Last year we had such an overwhelming success in helping people in Central Texas with their cedar fever and other allergies, we almost ran out of inventory.  So we are starting to produce a stock pile now especially for this winter.  While Easy Breather is very effective for acute symptoms such as nasal congestion, headache, sneezing, fatigue etc., it also strengthens the body’s immune system.  Therefore best results are achieved by starting Easy Breather 4 to 6 weeks before onset of allergy symptoms.

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