Highland Springs Wellness Center

06/23/2024

Nothing better on a hot day than a cold bite of sweet, juicy watermelon.

Watermelon is a fruit that offers many health benefits and therapeutic value for which the medicinal and therapeutic properties have long been recognized. Recipes and how to prepare it in cooking

04/19/2023

Garlic is medicine food:
To get the full benefits and flavor of raw garlic in your cooking, chop it up or mince it in a garlic press, then let it sit in your prep dish for 10 minutes before adding it to your cooking. This lets the allicin in the garlic fully develop releasing all its flavor and health benefits.

04/19/2023

Watch out for coatings on your produce...

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01/18/2023

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04/29/2022

Dr. Devlin has recently written two new articles.
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03/19/2020

Attention Patients:

Due to the recent changes in our country, being experienced because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become apparent that patients need to be seen via telemedicine means. HSWC will be offering such services through Skype, if patients desire, during this period of time so please call our office to schedule with any of our providers:
Dr. Sean Devlin, Dr. Ann Barnet and Annie Bennett PA-C. We hope to continue to support our patients and their primary care and integrative medical needs.
We hope that everyone stays healthy, practices good hygiene and limits social contact until this pandemic has passed. If you are sick please do not go out but contact our office if you have any medical questions or concerns. If your severely ill go immediately to your local emergency room.
Please call 530-274-2274 to schedule an appointment, if you do not get an answer please leave a message about your request.

Blessings,

The Staff of Highland Springs Wellness Center

01/13/2020

Stem Cells in the news....

Scientists never cease to amaze us with their new inventions. Dentures and implants may be a thing of the past as scientists can now grow new teeth in a patient’s mouth.

11/13/2019

STEM CELL STIMULATION
THE MAGIC IN THE FASTING MIMICKING DIET

Let’s talk about the magic in terms of cancer treatment for a moment. Valter Longo has been working to integrate fasting into the Western “standard of care” (especially with chemotherapy). He argues that, with his research results showing chemo to be 50% more effective when combined with fasting, it is especially hopeful for late-stage, and severe cancers. And he’s making inroads. Read more about this in his new book, The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease and Optimize Weight.

Here’s a high-level overview of how this works (for cancer and in general): A 5-day, low-calorie “starvation” period of 800-1100 calories/day as employed in the Fasting Mimicking Diet triggers old and damaged cell cleanup (in the brain and everywhere). That lower-calorie period also turns on stem cells which are ready and willing to create new, healthy cells. When the person goes back to regular eating, a period Mr. Longo calls “feeding”, the stem cells get busy. The body goes into regeneration and rejuvenation. Results of this research actually have recorded de-aging markers at the cellular level. The mice—and people– got physiologically younger!

Meanwhile in Japan, helping us deepen our understanding of the underlying physiological processes that heal and de-age at the cellular level, Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi won a Nobel Prize in 2016 for his work in cell recycling. This process is called “autophagy” and it involves the disassembling and recycling of aged and mutated cells, including damaged, mutated DNA. THIS is why it works with cancer, for example. And how do we access this process to activate it? You guessed it. One method to do this—a natural and holistic medicine–is to use the practice of fasting.

11/13/2019

STEM CELL BOOSTER
The 12-Minute Blood Sugar Fix

If you have diabetes, you’ve probably been told that you should exercise — along with changing your diet — to lose weight.

What matters most is the kind of exercise you do.

What many doctors and self-described health experts recommend — 150 minutes each week of standard cardio — isn’t the best way to lose body fat, reverse diabetes, or boost your overall health.

If fact, it does just the opposite. Standard cardio does more harm than good. That’s especially true if you have blood sugar problems. Let me explain…

Spending 30 to 40 minutes a day engaging in slow-to medium-intensity exercise — jogging, going for a walk, hitting the treadmill — is not only exhausting, but actually increases your body’s fat storage. If you think about it, that makes perfect sense.

If you were setting out on a long 10-mile trek, say, your body would need to conserve fat for the journey — literally saving it up for a rainy day, so to speak. As a result, this kind of workout does nothing to shed pounds, but actually trains your body to retain fat. That can be lethal for people with diabetes.

But if you flip the script — by engaging in high-intensity exercise for shorter periods of time — you can “trick” your body into burning fat immediately. Your body’s natural response to intense exercise is to use up your energy stores — fat — right away, because you need them now!

Mountains of research shows that doing brief, higher-intensity exercise is far more effective than conventional cardio at reducing body fat and reversing diabetes.

11/13/2019

STEM CELL BOOSTER
The 4-Day Blood Sugar Solution

The breakthrough discovery of pancreatic stem cells was not the only big break in using stem cells to cure diabetes.

University of Southern California also recently found that you can reset your body’s metabolism to “reboot” the pancreas to function normally again by boosting your stem cells.

And what triggers this “reboot” is so simple it’s hard to believe.

It’s intermittent fasting — alternating between eating normally and fasting for some period of time.

It’s also something we all do every day — for the 8 hours or so that we sleep.

New USC research proves that it effectively reverses diabetes.

Fasting promotes the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells that reduce symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the USC researchers proved.

Their conclusions were based on experiments on human pancreatic cells and mice with a rodent form of diabetes.

“Cycling a fasting-mimicking diet and a normal diet essentially reprogrammed non-insulin-producing cells into insulin-producing cells,” said lead researcher Dr. Valter Longo, director of the USC Longevity Institute at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

In other words: The reprogrammed adult cells and organs prompted a regeneration of damaged cells to become functional, according to the study, published in the journal Cell.

It only takes a few days to work!

The USC study showed mice who fasted for four days each week were cured of both types of diabetes.

You’d think that with such strong scientific findings, the FDA would take notice.

And yet: Not a single word from the FDA.

In fact, just the opposite is happening.

The FDA is refusing to pursue stem cells as the new cure for diabetes and working with Big Pharma to discredit this new research and MDs who have been leading the way.

But the FDA can’t stop the progress we’re seeing every day.

You see, stem cells are the key to YOUR OWN BODY’S natural healing system. You own them. Not the government. Not the drug companies. Not private health care interests that can profit from them.

11/04/2019