Bill Douglas

About Bill Douglas

Bill Douglas is the Tai Chi Expert at DrWeil.com, and Founder of World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day (held in 50 nations each year). He's authored and co-authored several books including a #1 best selling Tai Chi book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to T’ai Chi & Qigong,” and has been a Tai Chi source for The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, etc. You can learn more about Tai Chi & Qigong, and also contact Bill Douglas at http://www.worldtaichiday.org.

Holiday Stress - Is It the Time of Year, or Is It the Time of Man?

Life seems to compress as the holiday's get closer, and this shows us in no uncertain terms how "intense" our lives have become. Holidays put normal life into hyper-speed, but really our lives in general are now in hyper-speed...
Date Posted: December 28, 2005

Bone Loss, Osteoporosis, Depression, Menopause & TAI CHI

Emerging medical research indicates that an ancient health therapy may be the prescription for the future. Increasingly the menopausal problems of hormonal imbalance, often resulting in bone loss, are also affected by depression and stress.
Date Posted: November 24, 2005

Parkinson’s Disease & TAI CHI THERAPY

In a special to CNN, the Mayo Clinic’s mayoclinic.com reported that, “Parkinson's disease is progressive, meaning the signs and symptoms become worse over time.
Date Posted: November 17, 2005

High Blood Pressure and Tai Chi Therapy

Way back in 2003, the Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine’s Oct. 9th issue reported a study finding that Tai Chi “could decrease blood pressure and results in favorable lipid profile changes and improve subjects' anxiety...
Date Posted: October 29, 2005

T'ai Chi in the Information Age – Ancient Cure for Modern Problems

According to a twenty-year study by Kaiser Permanente, between seventy and eighty-five percent of illness is caused by stress, meaning that in the U.S. alone stress is costing us about one-trillion dollars per year in healthcare costs.
Date Posted: October 08, 2005