How can acupuncture help with weight loss? There are many ways acupuncture can be used to help with weight loss, such as increasing the body's metabolism. There are various reasons why people are overweight....
There are various reasons why people are overweight. Sometimes it's due to nervousness, sometimes it's a metabolic problem - they have slow metabolisms - sometimes it's a hormone problem. So those are three of the most common reasons or ways to treat obesity or people being overweight.
You can increase metabolism with acupuncture. You can help calm a person so that they're not as nervous and feeling like they have to have food to relax themselves. You can give them acupuncture and herbal formulas to help relax them. You can treat the hormone system in the body and you can use the points in the ear to treat the hormones in the body. You can do general hormone treatments or you can identify what gland is having particular problems and you can address that.
I'll give you a good example of a hormone problem. A person might be diagnosed as hyperthyroid, low thyroid function. One of the symptoms of that is constipation. So there you have a situation where the hormone system is affecting the digestive system. So you can treat the thyroid, but you can also specifically treat the constipation. The average person that comes into my office doesn't have a simple problem. It's not just one system that's having a problem. So that's just a very good example. They might have a digestive problem and they might have a hormone problem. They might have other problems that you have to address also if they're going to be completely well.
