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What is the best time to eat, rest, sleep, and meditate?

8/25/2012

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What is the best time to exercise? Worst time for coffee? Best time to meditate? Worst time to watch a thriller? According to Acupuncture and Chinese medicine theory, each system/organ is most active during specific 2 hour spans within a 24 hour day. 
Since great health is all about balance and prevention, here's a few things you may want to do (or avoid) during these specific hours to reap the benefits of optimum health.
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Did you know that most heart attacks happen around noon? The Heart system/organ is most active between 11 am and 1 pm: avoid caffeine and any stimulants during that time. Look at the Latin countries: they take their time at lunch, they don't multitask, they relax and enjoy their food. At lunch, leave the office, go for a walk, breathe some fresh air and eat peacefully without distractions. I know: easy to say, and not always easy to do. But give it a try at least a few times/week.

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Do you wake up often between 1 am and 3 am? This is the Liver system/organ time. The liver helps the body regenerate at night. So when someone is awake during those 2 hours, it is usually a good indication that stress is a factor. If you do wake up during the Liver time, figure out ways to relax and deal with stress. Listen to your body, it gives you clues all the time.

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What is the best time to exercise? Definitely not in the evening between 7 and 9 pm. The Pericardium system/organ is prominent between those hours. Being the cover of the heart, the pericardium protects it. So this would not be a good time to exercise vigorously, or watch a thriller in your bedroom before sleep. Instead it’s the perfect time to meditate, listen to soft music or take a warm bath. 

According to Chinese medicine, the Spleen system/organ is strong between 9 am and 11 am, and is in charge of the muscular energy of the body.  So this period is often the best time to exercise, right after breakfast.

The Stomach system/organ is between 7 to 9 am. This should make sense to everyone, as it is the best time to eat breakfast and feed the body for the day ahead. 

The Large Intestine system/organ is between 5 to 7 am. Obviously the best time to have a bowel movement. But if you have one later during the day, it's still good! Not having one at all is a problem!

Chinese medicine is fascinating, and makes a lot of sense. It really promotes listening to the body and mind, as well as working on a daily basis at keeping our health in balance and preventing illnesses.

Clara Cohen
Port Moody Healing Cedar Wellness 
Registered Acupuncturist
  • 3 am - 5 am Lung
  • 5 am – 7 am Large Intestine
  • 7 am – 9 am Stomach
  • 9 am – 11 am Spleen-Pancreas
  • 11 am – 1 pm Heart
  • 1 pm – 3 pm Small Intestine
  • 3 pm – 5 pm Bladder
  • 5 pm – 7 pm Kidney
  • 7 pm – 9 pm Pericardium
  • 9 pm – 11 pm Triple Burner
  • 11 pm – 1 am Gallbladder
  • 1 am – 3 am Liver
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Amazing Grand Opening!

8/14/2012

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Healing Cedar Wellness Grand Opening
We wanted to thank everyone who came and showed their support for our grand opening: our friends, family, our patients and their family, our neighbours, Port Moody city council Diana Dilworth, Red Tree Wellness owner, Gathered Roots Community Acupuncture owners, Steveston Acupuncture owner, Boda Health owner, Nutrition Boutique owner, La Bicicletta owner, Boucher Institute and ICTCMV students, local writer A.J. Devlin, local photographer Jenna Knight, and SNAP Coquitlam.We were humbled by the turn out, the flowers, wine bottles and congratulations cards. It was an amazing day!

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Miel's great dip and energy balls: gone within the first hour!
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Shannon, her hubby extraordinaire Mark and our great Front desk volunteer Adriane
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Clara, Meghan, Julia & Adriane: pretty ladies!
We raise $609.44 for the Crossroads Hospice Society. Thank you everyone who donated so generously to this great cause. We drank wine, ate lots of food (made mostly by Donna Oates & Miel Richtschied) and listen to live music by Honey & the Money. The kids corner was a very popular spot with face painting and lots of toys to play with (shared by Lily Halpin, Shannon's daughter). Thank you to our family, friends and our amazing team who helped throughout the day with replenishing drinks and food, and making sure everyone & everything was taken care of (And helped clean up). We couldn't have done without you. 
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Insyha: so pretty!
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The band rocked! Miel seems to enjoy it.
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Riley ready to be painted!
A lot was happening outside, but inside, many people had fun talking to Dr. Julia Christensen & Dr. Meghan Stobbs, learning more about Naturopathic Medicine and getting free samples of herbal teas. While others got poked by Rebecca Stephens and tried acupuncture for the first time!
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Rebecca Stephens doing auricular acupuncture on Tania (volunteering her body and apparently loving it!)
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Whose legs have been poked? Diana Dilworth? Nice gams!
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Dr. Meghan Stobss, Klaus Ferlow (Hans Director), Dr. Julia Christensen
PictureLast draw: Shannon reading her dad's name!
Just under 200 people were part of the celebration and for those who entered our draw prizes, here are the results! If you haven't collected it yet, please call us or e-mail us. Everyone wanted the Flatscreen TV! So when Martin Oates heard his name, he exclaimed: "I have never won anything in my life, wow!". Happy for you Martin. Thank you also to those who donated the prizes below, we really appreciated your contribution.


Martin Oates: 1 Flat screen 39” TV
Lindsey Douglas: 1 Initial Acupuncture session with Rebecca Stephens
Wayne Cahill: 45 minutes Massage with Tyler Oates
Steve Bush: 1 initial Naturopathic Visit with Julia Christensen
Charles Crouch: 1 initial Naturopathic Visit with Meghan Stobbs
Wendy Dosanjh: 1 initial Nutrition Consultation with Miel Richtscheid
Heide Gittens: 1 initial Chiropractic assessment & 6 follow up adjustment with Optimum family Chiropractic
Wendy Dosanjh: Multi-Vitamin bottle from Vita-Aid
Mima Kakiuchi: Multi-Vitamin bottle from Vita-Aid
Helen Bush: Multi-Vitamin bottle from Vita-Aid
Vinnie Dosanjh: $100 gift Certificate at Monk McQueen
Annida Scardillo: 1 infrared sauna session
Peter Norman: 1 infrared sauna session
Braden Oates: 1 infrared sauna session
Kathy Fester: 1 infrared sauna session
Cayde Scott: 1 infrared sauna session

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Healing Cedar Wellness is now officially opened for business and our goal is to help everyone reach optimum health! Looking forward to it!
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Amazing prizes for our grand opening!

8/6/2012

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Sunday August 12th from 11 am to 3 pm is Healing Cedar Wellness grand opening. It promises to be an amazing day. We will have food, entertainment (music), face painting for the little ones, local businesses and all our practitioners on site ready to answer any questions regarding natural health and its benefit.
We are raising fund for an amazing organization: the Crossroads Hospice Society in Port Moody. Anyone donating generously will be able to enter our draw and win of one of our fantastic prize.


Here are a list of our prizes:
- 39" Flat Screen TV
- 2 Initial visits with our Naturopathic Physicians (Value: $165 each)
- 1 Nutrition consultation with our Holistic Nutritionist (valued: $120)
- 1 Massage with our RMT (value: $75)
- 1 Initial visit and Acupuncture treatment with our registered acupuncturist (value: $90)
- 5 infrared sauna sessions at our facility (value: $25 each session)
- 1 health assessment and 6 adjustments visits (value: $345) from Optimum Family Chiropractic


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    • Dr. Ali Famouri, ND
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