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Okinawan honey is a delicate, terroir-driven product that reflects the taste of its subtropical islands. Longan honey is the crown jewel, but exploring the other varieties offers a delicious journey through Okinawa's unique ecosystem.

With an impressive nutritional profile containing up to 92 of the body's 102 essential minerals, Irish Sea Moss represents a powerful intersection of traditional wisdom and modern wellness.

Join Dr. James Odell for Season 2 of the Science of Self-Healing Podcast! He's the medical and executive director for BRMI, as well as a practicing naturopathic doctor for over 35 years, and he's here to share with you his extensive knowledge of medicine from a different perspective. The Bioregulatory Medicine Institute The Science of Self-Healing Podcast Wellness advice is everywhere — but somehow, it doesn't always work the way it promises. If you've ever wondered why, this

Epigenetic expression is, quite literally, a real-time report card of the terrain.

Jennifer Margulis, PhD A version of this article was first published on Jennifer Margulis’s Substack, Vibrant Life   I was contacted recently by a reader I’ll call J.P. As he explained when we talked on Zoom, J.P. spent nearly four years battling symptoms related to mismanaged hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid—a butterfly-shaped gland at the front of the neck—doesn’t make enough thyroid hormone. This medical issue is also called “u

Peptide therapeutics have played a notable role in medical practice since the advent of insulin therapy in the 1920s. Over 60 peptide drugs are currently approved in the United States and other major markets, and many more continue to enter clinical development at a steady pace.

If you've ever been lucky enough to talk with Morley Robbins, you'd know that he is a brilliant man with an infectious passion for uncovering information that mainstream medicine has overlooked or ignored.

There is a particular kind of book that earns permanent residency on a kitchen shelf, spine cracked, pages stained with tincture and tea, consulted so often it stops feeling like a reference and starts feeling like a collaborator.

Imagine if your cells could tell you exactly what they need to heal. Frequency medicine suggests they already are—we just need to learn their language.

BRMI Staff A comprehensive guide to this ancient European herb backed by modern science When you hear "Butcher's Broom," you might imagine medieval butchers sweeping their cutting boards with stiff bundles of twigs—and you'd be absolutely right. But this humble plant, once used to clean blood and debris from butcher blocks, has emerged as one of Europe's most scientifically validated herbs for circulatory health. With over two millennia of traditional use and growing clinical

BRMI Staff When seventeen-year-old Elisabeth Dashiell walked into Dr. William Coley's New York office in 1890 with a seemingly minor hand injury, neither could have imagined the profound impact their encounter would have on medicine. What began as a routine consultation would launch a medical revolution that we're only now beginning to fully understand over 130 years later. The young woman's injury was far from minor. Coley diagnosed her with an aggressive round cell sarcoma.

The body never lies. When emotions are allowed to move, the body no longer needs to express them through pain. True healing occurs when the conversation between the emotional self and the physical body is restored.

Blushwood represents a profound shift in oncology—from systemic warfare to precision strikes as a cancer treatment.

If herbs had personalities, bupleurum would be the diplomatic mediator of the botanical world—the one who shows up to defuse tension and restore harmony without anyone quite noticing how it happened. For over two thousand years, this elegant root has been quietly working its magic in East Asian medicine, not through force or drama, but through something far more sophisticated: the art of regulation.

The Feldenkrais Method offers a radically different philosophy: that our bodies already know how to move optimally—we just need to help our brains remember.

When fasting does result in reduced calorie intake, the benefits can be substantial.

The reality is that conventional thyroid testing was designed to identify advanced disease, not early dysfunction, regulatory imbalance, or cellular resistance. Thyroid physiology is far more complex than a single hormone or signaling loop, and many clinically relevant disturbances fall outside standard lab interpretation.

Arnica appears to be the first plant we've identified that can influence the subcutaneous layer's architecture through topical application. The mechanism is so novel that when researchers screened 380 different plant extracts, arnica was the only one capable of both increasing preadipocyte numbers and promoting their maturation. That's not "one of several good options." That's "literally the only plant we've found that can do this."

While traditional psychotherapy might take months or even years to uncover and work through family dynamics and intergenerational patterns, constellation participants often report profound insights and emotional breakthroughs in a single session—sometimes in just a few hours.

From Olympic athletes to people managing chronic pain, from new mothers to those with Parkinson's disease, gua sha is earning recognition not just as a cultural tradition, but as a legitimate therapeutic tool backed by an ever-growing body of scientific evidence.

As research continues to explore frankincense's depths, it reminds us that nature's pharmacy—refined through millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of human observation—still offers profound healing potential. For people seeking natural approaches to inflammatory conditions, joint health, respiratory support, and overall wellness, frankincense represents an evidence-based choice with a safety profile that beats many conventional alternatives.

In your cardiovascular system—that's your heart and all your blood vessels—chronic low-grade inflammation is now recognized as the underlying driver of nearly every major heart condition. We're talking about atherosclerosis, which is the hardening and narrowing of your arteries, hypertension or high blood pressure, scarring of the heart muscle called myocardial fibrosis, heart failure, irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias, and even blood clots that can lead to strokes.

"The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs.”

Black cohosh ultimately illustrates a central principle of botanical therapeutics: meaningful relief often arises not from forcing hormonal outcomes, but from restoring clarity and balance within the body’s own regulatory networks.