Dr Margaret Aranda

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Supplements for Aging and Pain Management: Cenegenics Formulary

By popular request, this post is to show you some best-selling products on the Cenegenics Formulary of supplements. Since Cenegenics is anti-aging, many products are anti-inflammatory. They work to decrease inflammation and oxidative stress – this also helps with migraines, heart disease, low back pain, low energy, sex drive and sleep. With balanced hormones and a good diet, many can lose weight,…

The Diagnosis of Pain: The Medical History

It is not hard for a doctor to diagnose pain. Every medical student is taught defining characteristics that are entered into the patient’s chart, substantiating the baseline pain: historic and physical data, patient self-assessment, numeric values, and physical exam findings.

The Waiting Room. Most doctors agree that personally calling the patient in from the waiting room allows a clinical…

Switching from Warfarin to Rivaroxaban

In transitioning from warfarin or Coumadin® to rivaroxaban or brand name Xarelto®, it is important to know how it works: it stops clotting factor Xa from working, thinning the blood. It starts working after a few hours of taking it. If you stop taking it, your blood returns to normal clotting in 1-2 days.

For general information, these other tablets are also anticoagulants: apixaban, dabigatran,…

Withdrawal and Pain Management without Opioids

WITHDRAWAL OF OPIOIDS AND PAIN MANAGEMENT WITHOUT OPIOIDS

By Dr Forest Tennant 

 We are pleased to share information from Dr. Forest Tennant, grandfather of PracticalPainManagement.com, teacher of intractable pain and arachnoiditis management. Read more about Dr. Tennant here.

Arachnoiditis is a complication of epidural steroid injections (ESI) wherein the normal layer of arachnoid tissue is…

Withdrawal and Pain Management without Opioids by Dr. Forest Tennant

WITHDRAWAL OF OPIOIDS AND PAIN MANAGEMENT WITHOUT OPIOIDS

By Dr Forest Tennant 

 We are pleased to share information from Dr. Forest Tennant, grandfather of PracticalPainManagement.com, teacher of intractable pain and arachnoiditis management. Read more about Dr. Tennant here.

Arachnoiditis is a complication of epidural steroid injections (ESI) wherein the normal layer of arachnoid tissue is…

Pain and Withdrawal Management without Opioids

WITHDRAWAL OF OPIOIDS AND PAIN MANAGEMENT WITHOUT OPIOIDS

By Dr Forest Tennant 

 We are pleased to share information from Dr. Forest Tennant, grandfather of PracticalPainManagement.com, teacher of intractable pain and arachnoiditis management. Read more about Dr. Tennant here.

Arachnoiditis is a complication of epidural steroid injections (ESI) wherein the normal layer of arachnoid tissue is…

Non-Opioid Pain Management by Dr Forest Tennant

WITHDRAWAL OF OPIOIDS AND PAIN MANAGEMENT WITHOUT OPIOIDS

By Dr Forest Tennant 

 We are pleased to share information from Dr. Forest Tennant, grandfather of PracticalPainManagement.com, teacher of intractable pain and arachnoiditis management. Read more about Dr. Tennant here.

Arachnoiditis is a complication of epidural steroid injections (ESI) wherein the normal layer of arachnoid tissue is…

My Secret Pinterest Places

I pin. A lot.

I’ve been doing it for about seven years. I love to library all my blogs and medical articles – pinning feels like a combination of facebook, Twitter, shopping, and multi–Tweeting … and if you have anything to sell, it’s getting easier and easier to sell on Pinterest, too!

So get your engines warmed up, once again! Because, well, you know…

 We’re going to My Secret Pinterest places!

Organic Orange Blueberry Scones

Lots of people cook, but not everyone can bake. There is something really wonderful about baking. I love the smell of aromatics from the kitchen, especially on a toasty morning with chilly briskness in the outside air. Using pastry flour adds an extra touch of yumminess, especially for those who eat carbs on rare occasions! And it’s sugar-free! Yummy! Read more… 

  This recipe was originally…

7 Ways that Pain Affects the Brain

7 Ways that Chronic Pain Changes the Brain:

An automated meta-analysis of 420 imaging studies – pain’s effect on the brain.

neurosynth.org uses functional connectivity and coactivation mapping from thousands of MRI images (each comprised of many cuts of images) are automated to show a final result of pain’s effect on the brain. Created and maintained by Tal Yarkoni. Supported by NIH…

One of my WordPress.com websites is The MD, PhD Is In. I write all my own medical articles on, for example, immunonutrition, menopause, and brain injury.

5 Steps: “BLOG & PIN”

Set up blog, Twitter and Pinterest. For website, “The MD, PhD Is In,” I have:

WordPress “The MD, PhD Is In“

Twitter  @themdphdisin 

 Pinterest Board, The MD, PhD  is In

Write your blog, like normal.

Share your blog to Pinterest: either use the Pinterest tool bar we described in the previous article, or Pin from the Pinterest Icon at the bottom of your page.

Re-Pin. View the Pin when you make it, then re-pin to another Board.

For each Pin, check off the boxes at the bottom of the Pin, to Facebook and Tweet at the same time.

Once you have the Pinterest toolbar, you can generate a slew of Pins while you are on Twitter. Hence, you stockpile your Tweets on a new Board, your Twitter Board!

And then, as you can imagine, you can leisurely go to your own Twitter Board…

and … Tweet!

BAM!   Tweet!  BAM!

(Remember that when you do this, you FB & Tweet! Woo ~ Hoo!)

⭐⭐ FOR THE WIN! ⭐ “BLOG & PIN!” ⭐ FOR THE WIN! ⭐⭐

 (FB & Tweet)

Dr Margaret Aranda Advice: “BLOG – PIN” For THE WIN!

BLOG!

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PIN!

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BLOG & PIN FOR THE WIN!

What good is it to write, if no one is going to actually read it?

This sets your brand apart: BLOG & PIN!

Blog to Pin to FB to Tweet.

Millions of authors use Wordpress.

Pinterest is a Superior Bloggers tool.

Anyone can Tweet from your Pins.

When someone Re-Pins, they can FB & Tweet.

Here is my gift Pinterest Board to Twitter @JETAR9.

My DR Author blog has the same Pinterest & Twitter accounts.

Your main Pinterest Board showcases 5 other Boards.

BLOG & PIN For THE WIN!

Has this article helped you?

This is what you can do to try out your skills this moment:

Click here: The MD, PhD Is In on Pinterest

Hover on a Pin and Click, SAVE.

Pick your Board for saving, or make a new one such as, “Health”

If you want to Pin most efficiently as a major effort, contact me by writing a Comment below.

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Organic Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins

Great for first-time bakers, just line up the ingredients and follow the pictures! Organic and buttermilk, too! Super moist, as we add a tablespoon of 100% olive oil. And super healthy, as we add chia and ground flax seeds – par excellence! oh- and SUGAR-FREE, exuding an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant-laden richness! Read more… 

This recipe was first published on Dr. Aranda’s companion site, The…

4 Ways to Treat DI

Public involvement is needed to save lives after head injury.

Chances are that a teen was involved in a car accident, resulting in a head injury. Even as a teen in school, you may be the first to notice changes in your BFF. Your Best Friend Forever will thank you for saving her life. Read more…

  This article was originally published by Dr. Margaret Aranda on her companion site, The MD, PhD Is In

Squash is a fruit from the pumpkin family. It gives 450% of daily Vitamin A, 45% of Vitamin C, and about 20% of potassium requirements. With no cholesterol and richness in omega-3 fatty acids, this may be the best vegetable one can eat.

If you want to eat for immunonutrition, you’re off to a great start with organicwinter squash. Long known for their color and carotenoids, they pack beneficial…

Are you on the run in the morning? Best to grab some weekday morning protein to start off your day, and this is a surefire way to do it in style: Organic Paleo muffins!

Use this recipe and you’ll never be the same! Read here.

  This recipe was first published on Dr Aranda’s companion site, The Chronic Life Diet.

Sweet Urine and DI

When you hear that someone is ‘diabetic,’ that usually refers to the formal name, diabetes mellitus. Mellitus is the Latin word for ‘sweet like honey.’

Historically, Egyptian manuscripts circa 1500 B.C. write of a disease associated with much urine output. Indians used the word,  madhumeha (‘honey urine’) because ants were attracted to the sugary urine. Read on…