6 Ways Acupuncture Can Completely Change Your Health

What if we told you that the leading doctors in medicine today believe that all illness is caused by stress? The link between body and mind, between stress and disease, has been claimed by Eastern medicine for hundreds of years now, Western physicians are getting onboard - and for Traditional Chinese Medicine has known all along.

There is a dramatic and powerful connection between your mind and body. In fact, it really should be called a connection because it is just one bi-directional system. 95% of all illness is caused or worsened by stress. There are many studies about how effective acupuncture is in relieving stress, including ones showing how acupuncture lowers the stress hormone cortisol and stimulates the release of endorphins in the brain. 

If there's one thing that everyone agrees on it's that sleep is the most important aspect of good health. Poor sleep contributes to everything from inability to lose weight to faster aging.

Acupuncture is super helpful with getting good sleep! Studies show that acupuncture improves sleep activity and quality, as well as melatonin production. Patients receiving acupuncture fall asleep faster, are less active at night and are less stressed.

There is so much more that could be written about how to sleep more deeply (like our brain training programs), but if you really want to maximize your sleep - we highly recommend regular acupuncture treatments.

If you haven't had the daytime 'acupuncture nap', then maybe it's time to try it out. There are a few reasons why: you can make an appointment for it, it's just as good alone and your boss will probably let you slip out of the office at lunch to do it! 99% of patients say they 'zone out' for 20-30 minutes every time they get acupuncture. They say they go into a deep, sort of lucid dreaming state. After acupuncture, they slowly return from this relaxed state and feel balanced, grounded and fully charged, as if they just returned from a week vacation.

Each emotion has a corresponding organ. For example. frustration, anger and irritability are emotions ruled by the liver. Now, you wouldn't go to your regular doctor and say, "My acupuncturist tells me I have liver qi stagnation. Can you please check my liver?" It's more the energy of the liver we are talking about. Basically, if you are having a stressful week and are starting to get irritable, then odds are your liver energy is becoming stagnant and needs to move! So, Dr. D would focus the acupuncture on the points of the liver used to move the liver qi and break up stagnation. 

By doing acupuncture regularly, you'll be able to keep the liver energy moving and precent the irritability and frustration from starting in the first place. 

Another aspect of what acupuncturists do is herbal medicine. Herbs are an all-natural, mostly plant-based medicine that are effective for everything from PMS, hormonal acne, painful menstruation, irregular periods, hormone balancing, menopausal hot flashes, digestion, high cholesterol and so much more. We have seen women with eight- or nine-out-of-ten pain, vomiting and nausea, go down to a one- or two-out-of-ten pain in two or three months using a combination of recommended supplements and acupuncture. 

Acupuncture has a cumulative effect on your health overall. And if you're less stressed, are sick less often, sleeping better and waking more restful you are going to be more productive. And you're also going to have a higher quality of what you produce.

Be sure you 'click' with your practitioner. You'll get the most out of the experience if you are confident and comfortable with the person you see and if you feel they 'get you'.

Go for several treatments. For some people, it can take several treatments to start to notice the changes in their body, and for some, the effects are immediate.

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