Health Viewpoints
Spicy hot and robustly flavorful, chili peppers offer an experience in adventurous eating. Beyond their tantalizing taste, they are laden with nutritional value and properties that support health and healing.
Do Chili Peppers Make People Feel Happy and Fight Cancer?
Eating chili peppers can bring a short-term sense of euphoria and well-being with long-term nutritional benefits to the body.
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Jingduan Yang
M.D.
Dr. Jingduan Yang is a board-certified psychiatrist and fifth-generation classical Chinese medicine physician whose work bridges Western psychiatry, functional medicine, and ancient healing traditions. He is the creator of the ACES Model of Health and Medicine—a four-dimensional framework spanning anatomy, chemistry, energy, and spirit—and the author of “Facing East” and “Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine.” As a principal founder of the Northern School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he advances whole-person care grounded in science, ethics, and humanity.
