I recently made a little recording about what it looks like to be inside of our practice. I made it to show what other options are out there for folks looking to change the status of their health in a very real way (and as the obvious shameless plug). I hope this helps guide you to the practitioners and medicines that will change your life.

DNA and Methylation

Kintsugi and how “broken” gets “fixed

Heat Clearing Drinks

Catching a “heat” can be as problematic as catching a cold. In the summertime, or warm climates, and can lead to things like, rashes, fatigue, feeling like you have a cold, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, spontaneous bleeding, psoriasis, headache, vertigo, tinnitus, and much more. Here’s a list of a few drinks that could take the edge off, and hopefully prevent more serious things from developing

Did your mom or your grandma ever tell you not to catch a warm when you go out? Because that's the thing. So we know about sunburn, right?

oahu holistic medicine - crash course on cooking

In our Acupuncture/Naturopathic Medicine clinic currently, many of our patients are benefitting from the use of San Qi - Panax Notoginseng (SPN) in their daily lives. 

Our clinical observations (usually administered in 3g powder taken orally in warm or cold water, undecocted, wiuth the dregs ingested) of the benefit of SPN include: COVID fatigue recovery, COVID Vaccine induced frozen shoulder recovery, amelioration of depression, improved energy, improved mood, decrease in frequency and intensity of hot flashes. 

THIS INFORMATION COULD BE OF SERIOUS CONSEQUENCE TO FOLKS WITH GLUTEN ALLERGIES.

Copy and paste this into a document somewhere on your computer, keep it on the fridge.

Don’t go crazy by this information, unless you have a really serious gluten intolerance - this is meant to be a guide and not an absolute, avoid at all cost scenario.

Here’s a list of foods that have hidden gluten containing ingredients, that may not be labeled as “gluten” or “contains gluten”

My name is David Santander, I operate a concierge naturopathic and acupuncture clinic in Hawaii. In 2021 we began building the first integrated concierge and naturopathic medicine practice [that I’ve heard of, might not be the first but, it also might be] - Oahu Holistic Medicine in Kailua, HI. 

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has millennia-old roots and has long since arrived in the West. Follow us on the journey through the People's Republic of China and to the people who still practice TCM today. Ranging from family doctors who pass on their knowledge and secret recipes from generation to generation, to acupuncturists who are able to cure chronic illnesses and natural healers whose ancient recipes can make bones grow back together again. All of them are masters of their profession, and their patients travel from all over Southeast Asia to see them.

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Traditional Chinese medicine and harmony of the planet: Lixin Huang at TEDxWWF