How the Body Works Archives

The One Thing You Can Give Your Baby Only Before They’re Born

While you are pregnant, your body is the only world your baby has — and you can change the weather in it.

How CPR proves the body has a built-in pharmacy that keeps us alive — and how Medical Qi Gong draws on it.

Because Qi Gong works with your body’s own electrical system — and that system runs everything.

Qi Gong is called the art of effortless power — an 8km cliff hike put that to the test.

Your body generates its own electricity — and every doctor, nurse and dentist learned this on day one of medical school.

The same argument as the introduction, taken further into the physiology.

Two people can be the same age on paper and decades apart in how their bodies work. Here’s why.

How the parasympathetic nervous system supports brain function, and what switches it on.

How Qi Gong influences epigenetics by regulating physiological stress, inflammation and gene expression.

Medical Qi Gong is the original somatic healing practice — developed over 4,000 years ago.