Abril Reck is a Family Nurse Practitioner, licensed nationally by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and is a California licensed acupuncturist. She graduated with honors with a BS in Psychology, BS in Nursing and MS of Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a master's degree from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing as well as a MS of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from South Baylo University. She has completed the requirements for Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Abril currently see patients in her private practice with a focus on stress and burnout, functional medicine, and women's health while also continuing to practice as a nurse practitioner in urgent care medicine. She enjoys traveling, spending time with her rescue English bulldog and raising medicinal herbs in her garden.
Structured water (H3O2) can be considered a fourth state of water between liquid and solid. It has the hexagonal structure of ice; however, missing a critical bond, it behaves more like a gel than a solid, but retains some of its crystalline structure.
In the past five years of my clinical practice, I have seen an astonishing upsurge in the chronic use of proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for the gastrointestinal issue diagnosed by allopathic medicine as GERD. It is not uncommon to encounter patients taking these prescriptions for five-plus years.
Working with chronically ill patients entails acknowledging the reality that not all patients will survive their diagnosis. Chinese medicine and acupuncture play a crucial role in palliative and end-of-life care, addressing medication and disease side effects, alleviating pain associated with death, reducing anxiety and stress, and helping patients find peace during the dying process.
