Recently I have had a number of patients come into the clinic with nerve pain, tingling, numbness and even heart palpitations. They are certain that there is something seriously wrong, yet their doctor, their neurologist and Dr. Google all seem to be baffled as to why. But instead of being relieved when they find out the reason for their symptoms they are actually indignant because the reason is B vitamin deficiency and the indignant part occurs because they have been getting intravenous vitamin infusions every other week for months. So how could they be B vitamin deficient?

Healthy Short SubjectsKaren ClicknerJuly 23, 2025

A Cup of Tea Can Save the World

Not only do you feel better drinking tea, you actually FEEL better! Let’s drink to that!

The Singing Cells

One of the things that we may not realize is that our bodies create sounds that are undetectable to our ears. These sounds are the result of vibration and movement which is inherent in every cell and essential to every tissue. It has often been described as the “singing of cells”.

Energetic Medicine, Healthy Short SubjectsKaren ClicknerOctober 13, 2024

How Does our Health Benefit From a Trip to Afghanistan?

In the human body there is also an inherent pattern, history, experiences and lifestyle that creates our health or lack thereof. Simply applying a prescription drug may make us feel better, may reduce the symptoms of chaos, pain and debility, but it does not create change, nor does it promote resolution. As soon as we stop, the original condition will often return, making us dependent on the drug for peace within our body.

What Does it Mean to Be Human?

Each day our health care system demonstrates that it views us as a machine. Emotions, thought processes, memory, even our very soul may make us a miracle, but we are still defined in mechanistic terms which simply reinforces and justifies more automation.

The Rug From Hell

Many of you will recognize this image as the rug in my Westborough office. This represents an important consideration … that if you allow something to create a problem and don’t work to resolve it, then everything that comes after is affected. Read on…

Dealing With Symptoms, Healthy Short Subjects, How the Body WorksKaren ClicknerJune 26, 2023

Closed Head Injuries: A Lifetime of Symptoms

There are many times when I am muscle testing patients and the issues and symptoms they are experiencing trace back to a closed head injury earlier in their life. The truth is that this type of injury, whether diagnosed as a concussion or not, can happen from sports, from a fall, from a blow to the head or from any injury such as in a car accident. But this may be only the start of the problem.

Healthy Short Subjects, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerAugust 5, 2022

Vomitus Logicalus

Vomiting may not be the most desirable of topics but it is an interesting one. Why is it that when you’re on a cruise ship having just enjoyed lobster and a glass of wine followed by a Charlotte Russe for dessert, you will inevitably come across a fellow passenger vomiting in the hallway which makes you want to discharge everything you’ve just eaten? The answer is simple - it’s an immune response.

Dealing With Symptoms, Healthy Short Subjects, Immune Illness, How the Body WorksKaren ClicknerFebruary 18, 2022

Remembering...

We often think that memory is simply recalling facts, numbers, where we put the car keys. But memory is actually one of the ways in which our body restores itself and creates a healing response to injury and illness.

Healthy Short Subjects, How the Body Works, Our Emotional LifeKaren ClicknerNovember 30, 2021

Lessons From Living Things

Next to our Holden clinic, literally kissing the wall, is a 300 year old Sugar Maple tree. There is a crack that has formed down the trunk between two sections of the tree, but the tree has actually grown a curved section of trunk from one side of the trunk across the crack to the other side of the trunk. It has literally created a bond to hold itself together and heal the breach.

This is a characteristic that is common to all living things. Adaptation for survival and repair for longevity. This is the result of an innate living intelligence at work and this is common to all living things.

Healthy Short SubjectsKaren ClicknerJanuary 23, 2021

Step Away From the Diet Coke

Our bodies are experiencing water shortages, and methods are being put in place to accommodate these shortages. The shortages exist because we are failing to fully hydrate our bodies. We are drinking iced tea, diet coke, carbonated beverages, coffee blends that would astonish Juan Valdez and expecting that they will do what water does because they each contain water. You would be wrong.

Healthy Short Subjects, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerAugust 19, 2016

The Stress of Being the Alpha Male

Recently I've had a number of male patients come in complaining of either searing abdominal/pelvic pain when they cry for joy, or experience some blood mixed with their semen.

Healthy Short Subjects, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerApril 25, 2014Male Hormones

The Herbal Advisor Magazine is the research and information by Certified Clinical Herbalist Karen S. Clickner, with 35 years of experience through her clinical history in Massachusetts.