Eva Levy Englander has a BA in psychology from Skidmore College in N.Y. (2009). She graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College in 2012 with her master's in acupuncture. After graduation she worked with Dr. Daisy Dong in China. Upon arrival back into the U.S. Eva worked for a wellness center in Denver, and then established her own clinic. She has worked at Kaiser Permanente since 2015, and specializes in anxiety disorders, chronic pain, sciatica, digestive disorders, female infertility, menopause symptoms, and sleep related problems. Englander is certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.