Acupuncture
Learn how Ms. Lamarche and acupuncture clients find this practice to be useful.
Miche Lamarche Biography
Learn about the specialist and her background.
Miche Lamarche is an acupuncturist and holistic wellness specialist who uses her eighteen years of knowledge in Chinese medicine to help others become the happiest and healthiest versions of themselves. Miche studied under Dr. Datis Kharraziac and specialized in Functional Blood Chemistry. In this field, she has extensive knowledge in autoimmune conditions, fertility and chronic conditions that are difficult to resolve. She teaches people how to restore their bodies to prevent injuries. Ms. Lamarche triggers healing, educates her clients for the present day and future, and changes their health destiny. Miche's combined use of nutrition, herbs, acupuncture, and neurofeedback treatments can be life-changing to those who seek her help. Ms. Lamarche intertwines neurofeedback with Chinese Medicine and Functional Neurology. She is trainer and clinical aid at IASIS Technologies. Miche is willing to refer her clients to doctors and specialists to further help their medical needs and is willing to work with their current specialists to help her clients. Ms. Lamarche has Masters in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MTOM), Nationally Board Certified Orthopedic Acupuncture (NBAO), Master in Herbalism, National Certification for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), Accredited Clinical Nutritionist (ACN), Certified Neurofeedback Practitioner, Clinical Liaison and Trainer. She is a Licensed Acupuncture Physician in state and national levels and has a rare Board Specialty in Orthopedics. Ms. Lamarche is a certified Clinical Nutritionist and a California state licensed Herbalist, trained to the high level of Master of Chinese Medicine. Miche resides in California and practices in Leimert Park and West Los Angeles. Ms. Lamarche holds a degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago, where she studied Marketing, Communications and Finance.
What is holistic wellness?
Holistic wellness teaches people to be the happiest and healthiest versions of themselves for the present and future. This practice uses techniques like lifestyle redesign, acupuncture, herbal use, and nutrition to seek optimal health for those who use holistic wellness. These practices focus on using different strategies to improve overall wellness of the patient and works to improve the client's mind, body, and spirit. While holistic wellness is not what is commonly prescribed by a doctor in a white coat, it has significantly positive impacts on chronic illnesses, diet and sleep habits, stress and personal issues, among many others. Ms. Lamarche practices holistic wellness with her clients and has seen a variety of improvements over her years as a master in this field. Overall, holistic wellness is beneficial for those who are looking to improve their health in numerous aspects and continue their lives in a way in which their health is maintained as a priority.
“I think holistic wellness does a lot of good and has potential to do a good job of educating people. People should live their lives more healthfully. I think they should know things like how to breathe, how to eat. I think those should be taught very early on in a child’s life. I think children should be educated in schools about this. I think wellness should not be a concept that they learn through your journalistic efforts, but it should be in the school system." -Miche Lamarche, holistic wellness specialist
Acupuncture
“Basically, acupuncture is a treatment of the body via a recognition of what is equilibrium and using points that correspond with fulcrums of nerves and vessels. When a needle is put in the body, the body thinks of the person as an animal going through a field and is being pricked by a thorn. The first thing the body does is wall off circulation to that area and put histamine that will dilute the poison from the thorn. What is does is that because the needle is sterile, that restriction of the blood vessel relaxes. In addition to that, when the white blood cells come in, they bring in a certain white blood cell that stops pain."-Miche Lamarche, holistic wellness specialist
Acupuncture is the practice of Chinese medicine that consists of strategically placing thin needles into the skin to trigger and cure a variety of pains throughout the body. The acupuncturist carefully places the needles into the skin to stimulate the blood flow and cure aches, pains, and other discomforts within the body without prescribing medication to the client. Unlike medication prescribed to help one specific area in the body, acupuncture benefits the entire being by helping their minds, bodies and spirits. This practice works through the client's blood stream. According to Ms. Lamarche, this ancient form of healing is profound because it has 5,000 years of medical experience and it is very in depth. Although the effectiveness of acupuncture varies from client to client, it is a form of holistic wellness that benefits the entire being. “Some people use it as a chiropractic substitute and find it to be a unique form of healing,” said Brennan Heil who has used acupuncture on her back. “I used it as a substitute and in addition to massage for my shoulder and forearm that I injured swimming. I found that it actually worked really well! I saw improvements.” said Lindsay Lauder, a former USC swimmer.
Nutrition
No matter what types of prescribed medications or holistic wellness treatments a person uses, the best way to maintain health daily is through focused nutritional practices. This is something that only the person themselves must be working to improve on to create lifelong habits that will benefit their health. “I always give people nutritional advice,” Ms. Lamarche said. “I always give them a recipe for a green smoothie and recommend that they do it in the morning because it helps clean them out and it helps them get nutrition. I explain to them about processed foods.” If Miche’s clients seek her expertise in holistic wellness but are not balancing it with proper nutrition, they will not see the same amount of improvement as her clients who follow her nutritional support for nourishment.
“It really depends on your nutritional goals and how seriously you take the advice you are given. Our nutritionists on the national team helped us with what we should eat, what we shouldn’t eat, and gave us the capabilities to make improvements. The results and tools are out there it just comes back to how hard you try." -Alex Roelse, USA Water Polo Olympic Team member
Find out here how many calories your body needs on a daily basis
Herbs
Throughout Miche’s study of Chinese medicine, she became extremely knowledgeable in the use of herbs on patients and has seen numerous improvements in her clients while combining the use of herbs with other holistic practices. “You’d be amazed,” she said. “I can tell you every color of each herb, the organ that it will go to, what action it will generate whether it’s up or down. Whether it can be a main herb, who you can give it to and who you can’t give it to. What it means to be combined with to make it more efficient. I can put two herbs together and see how it can be five times more effective.” According to Tao of Wellness, “Each herb has been meticulously studied and recorded for its flavor, therapeutic property, and organ system in which it is active. Flavors include sour, bitter, acrid, salty, and sweet. Therapeutic properties span cold, cool, neutral, warm, and hot. The organ systems cover the various systems that make up our entire anatomy. These attributes synergistically offer the Chinese medical viewpoint on an herb’s therapeutic actions. Each herb is then categorized according to its primary therapeutic action. These include diaphoretics (cleansing through sweat), anti-inflammatories, diuretics (cleansing through urine), digestives, internal warmers, relaxants, tonics and many other categories. Given all this, herbs are then combined into formulas to accomplish several tasks simultaneously and these herbal formulas are categorized in the same manner as the singular herbs.” Overall, each herb has unique qualities that have been carefully studied by practitioners of Chinese medicine to work within the client’s organ system when properly used in a singular or combined manner.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback works with electrodes attached to the client’s scalp to observe brain functions through monitoring brainwave frequencies. This practice can help improve clients who have issues with anxiety, peak performance, stress, behavior, and is popular with clients who have had serious injuries in accidents. The kind of neurofeedback technology Ms. Lamarche uses is cutting edge and she has presented her findings and techniques in Dallas to talk to the military and Dallas Cowboys faculty to tell them about how this is beneficial with concussions and head injuries.
“Through acupuncture I can release the body part and through the neurofeedback I can help the brain restore itself. The neurofeedback I do does not tell the brain where I want it to go, it literally triggers the brain to reset itself and helps it find its reference point again. It’s a different technology.”-Miche Lamarche, holistic wellness specialist
The video below is an example of how the micro current neurofeedback Ms. Lamarche works with directly with her clients to positively impact their lives:
See the map below for Ms. Lamarche's office at Leimert Wellness:
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