A Ring Without End: Reflections on Classical Chinese Medicine Mind/Body Mapping

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A new book has been released by Z’ev Rosenberg and Stephen Cowan.

From the publisher: A Ring Without End explores the contrasting Western and Eastern approaches to mapping the human body, offering tools for practitioners to develop a personalized clinical practice. Based on Nanjing and others classics of Chinese medicine, a picture of health and illness emerges as dynamic processes rooted in ecological principles such as water cycle, circulation and seasonal influences. These ideas, reflected in channel maps, provide valuable insights into how yin/yang medicine can address the modern health crises we face today. By adapting these teachings to new contexts—patients, society, planet — a new school of ecological medicine can spring up from transplanted (foreign) medical teachings into new soil, embodying the concept: many streams, one source.

This book can be purchased through purchase through Redwing Books (www.redwingbooks.com) and Amazon.

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Living Near an Ocean Might Extend Lifespan

“…proximity to coastal waters (within 50 km) was positively associated with life expectancy, while proximity to inland water bodies (≥20 km2) was negatively associated with life expectancy.”

This study found a statistical assoctiation between living near the ocean and a longer a life expectancy. They mention potential cofactors like how living near the ocean correlates with a higher socioeconomic status and results in exposure to less extrememe weather, amongst other significant factors. And this inverse finding, the reduction in life expetancy with proximity to inland water bodies, at first may be counterintuitive but when you consider it’s being compared against the advantages of living near an ocean, significant differences arise (this is explained in the paper).

Do read the study for additional information:

Yanni Cao, Ria Martins, Jianyong Wu. Unveiling complexity in blue spaces and life expectancy. Environmental Research, 2025; 281: 121981 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121981

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