Shiroko Sokitch
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Shiroko Sokitch Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Blending Chinese and Western Medicine, creating unique solutions for difficult problems,
- Career Focus
- MD and acupuncture; speaker and wellness coach
I've been practicing Chinese and Western medicine for 25 years. I practiced 10 years of Emergency Medicine in various hospitals in Seattle and Califo ia.
In 1993, I opened Heart to Heart Medical Center in Sonoma County. In October 2009, I opened a new office in Novato. My unique blend of Chinese and western medicine allows me to see you as a whole person. Helping you to find what it takes to heal your body in a balanced way. My 20/30/50 medical approach is about finding balance of all the components of yourself for healing.
For the last 12 years, I've had an alte ative medicine newspaper column in Healdsburg, Windsor, and Sebastopol. I've also co-written a book titled Building A Successful Practice - a how to book on developing a healing business. My book is available on my web page (hthmc.com).
Collaborating with my "Perspectives on Healing" TV show co-host, Sivan Garr, I have created "Stop Revolving, Start Evolving" seminars, which have been immensely successful.
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Solving the Sleep Dilemma
Solving the Sleep Dilemma Have you spent nights tossing and turning without being able to rest? Some people spend every night that way. I’m amazed at how many people tell me that they sleep only one to four hours a night. When a person doesn’t get enough sleep at night nothing works right. Sleep is necessary for a healthy immune system, normal hormonal function and recovery of the body and mind. Lack of sleep is even connected to an inability to lose weight.
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Happy New Year Every Day!
Carla woke up on New Years day not feeling like she was going to have a good day. She didn't want to start the new year feeling badly because it might be an omen of things to come. What if we treated every day as a new year? Today is just another day on the calendar. In fact, for much of the world, today is just an ordinary day. The Chinese celebrate New Year in February. My Persian friends celebrate it in the spring. For me, New Year starts in September because I spent so many years in school and that's when school always started.
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Memory and Nutrition
Memory and Nutrition Have you walked into a room clear that you had a purpose and then suddenly can’t remember why? Did you put that ring down somewhere and can’t find it now? Are you worried that you’re not going to remember your name next week? Not all memory issues mean that you’re heading down the road to dementia. Some things that look like severe memory loss can be treated with simple solutions. Your brain is capable of making new cells at any age.
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The Secret to True Love
Last year on Valentines Day, I went with three girlfriends to Santa Rosa dressed to the nines. We were headed to a Professional Singles Society event. Within three feet of walking into the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, we saw that there were only ten people there, all over the age of sixty, and only one male. I left the premise depressed as we headed towards Petaluma.
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I Don't Have Time to Get Healthy!
Have you ever felt like you just don’t have enough time? Do you stress about getting where you need to go in the day and keep feeling like you are never going to get done? It's not uncommon for us to feel that way, especially in these times where things seem to be moving faster and faster.
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HEALTHY HAPPY AGING TIPS
The average American is spending 4x more on their health per year than anyone else in the world, and yet almost 1 out of every 2 adults have at least one chronic illness. Seven out of 10 deaths among Americans are from chronic disease. The good news is that most of the leading causes of diseases are preventable. According to the CDC(Center for Disease Control), “In addition to being among the most prevalent and costly health conditions, chronic diseases are also among the most preventable of all health problems.”
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Healing Shoulder Injuries
Anna was enjoying a beautiful day playing golf. She was determined to beat her opponent today. In order to win she had to make a hole in one. She made a big swing and felt a sudden pain in her shoulder. Suddenly she couldn’t move her arm to complete the swing. The pain didn’t last long and she was able to start playing again in ten minutes. A week later, she woke up in the morning unable to move her shoulder at all. She went to her orthopedist after a few weeks to find out what was wrong with her arm.
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Everyone Has a Body
Everyone has a body. Many people are terrified when their body starts to act up. As life has become more complicated in the last one hundred years, we have gotten further and further away from being in touch with our bodies. We have made doctors the high priests of the temples of our bodies thinking they can help us be in touch with what is going on inside ourselves.r
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Acupuncture, what is it really good for?
The other day I was talking to my chiropractor friend about a man he had been treating for low back pain. John, was having surgery on his low back because of a ruptured disc. I asked Dr. DC why he hadn’t referred him for acupuncture. He said he didn’t realize that it would help. He had give John tens and laser treatments, which he thought would be the same as acupuncture or better.
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Craving Comfort- Handling Addiction
How many times have you decided that you need to stop smoking or eating sugar and find that you can't? It becomes even more difficult to quit once you've decided that you have to. The internal saboteur takes over and tells you that, "just one more won't hurt." One in every twelve adults abuse alcohol or are dependent on it. One in five Americans die from cigarette smoking every year. One in three Americans is suffering from obesity. It is clear our society is saturated with addictions.
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Beware of Poison in Your Supplements
I was sitting in my office with a new client who was showing me her bag of supplements. As I dug into her bag, the first supplement I pulled out was a popular brand of multivitamin. Without looking at the label, I already knew what it would say – a list of vitamins, their quality- and various other poisonous ingredients that most people aren’t informed about. Ingredients like ethylene glycol (anti-freeze), titanium dioxide (a white color dye) carnauba wax (undigestible), red dye number 5 (may be cancer causing), and magnesium stearate (prevents pills from sticking in machine).
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DR. SHIROKO REVEALS MYTHS AND SECRETS ABOUT ANTI-AGING
“The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.” Aubrey DeGray, Cambridge Geneticist Like death and taxes, getting older is inevitable for those of us who survive our youth.
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