Bill Douglas has two words for a country desperate to cut its skyrocketing health care costs.
Tai chi.
He's not kidding.
"If you look at a Kaiser Permanente study that says that 70 percent of illnesses are caused by stress, you're talking about a potential savings of trillions of U.S. dollars, year after year if we teach our citizens effective stress-management techniques on a massive scale."
For decades Douglas has believed that the regular practice of the Chinese martial art, meant to unblock the flow of energy though the body, can be used to treat and even prevent a wide range of illnesses.
The medical world is beginning to agree with him.
In a few weeks, Douglas will give a presentation to the National Institutes of Health focusing on tai chi as a modern health solution, the first ever. And thanks to what he calls a "groundbreaking tectonic shift in health care," he's taking some persuasive ammunition with him: a stamp of approval from Harvard Medical School. (More)
Source: Taiwan News
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