Clinical Focus
Digestion + Metabolism
Clinical Focus
Proper digestion, gut health, and a balanced metabolism are vital for overall health, supporting organ function, cognitive abilities, energy levels, and the quality of your skin and bones. By promoting digestive harmony and metabolic balance, the body’s ability to convert food into essential nutrients is optimized, enhancing overall well-being. For conditions like IBS, bloating, constipation, acid reflux, indigestion, and metabolic concerns such as weight gain or fluid retention, combining natural therapies with dietary guidance offers a holistic solution. This approach not only addresses the root causes of these issues but also improves digestion, restores balance, supports a healthy metabolism, and can provide relief from PMS-related symptoms or digestive and metabolic issues linked to medication or birth control.
Signs and Symptoms Addressed with Acupuncture
- Bloating
- Constipation
- Indigestion
- Acid Reflux
- Weight gain + fluid retention
- Weight loss + lack of appetite
- Weak Metabolism
- GERD
- Cravings
- PMS Related Symptoms
- Symptoms linked to medication use or birth control
- IBS (Irregular Bowel Syndrome) including IBS-D, IBS-C, IBS-M, IBS-U
Supporting the Foundation of Good Health: Tips for Enhanced Digestion and Metabolism
- Shift Your Eating Times: Eating within a 7 AM to 6 PM window supports intermittent fasting, allowing the body to rest overnight while ensuring food is properly digested and burned off throughout the day.
- Decrease or Eliminate Cold Foods and Drinks: Cold foods and beverages can slow down metabolism and digestion, weakening their function and potentially leading to digestive and metabolic issues.
- Keep Your Body Warm: A cold body, including cold feet, can hinder metabolic and digestive processes, causing sluggishness in the system.
- Eat at a Slower Pace: Eating too quickly can lead to indigestion, forcing the body to work harder, which can result in exhaustion and discomfort.
- Ensure Adequate Fluid Intake: Dehydration can sometimes be mistaken for hunger, leading to overeating. Staying hydrated helps regulate appetite and supports digestion.
- Healthy Stress Management: Stress affects individuals differently. Some may overeat as a form of comfort, while others may lose their appetite entirely. Effectively managing stress can help maintain a healthy relationship with food and digestion.
- Herbal Teas: For sluggish digestion, herbal teas like ginger root, licorice, fennel, and cinnamon can help stimulate digestion and metabolism, providing an energy boost and improving digestive function.
- Decrease Process Food Intake: Processed foods are often high in unhealthy fats, sugars, and artificial additives that can disrupt digestion, slow metabolism, and contribute to weight gain and chronic health issues. By focusing on whole, nutrient-dense foods, you can support better digestion, stabilize blood sugar levels, and promote healthy metabolism while allowing the body to be nourished on a deeper level improving long-term health.
Benefits of Acupuncture for Digestion and Metabolism
Acupuncture plus it’s complimenting modalities such as infrared heat therapy, cupping therapy, electro stimulation, and moxibustion offer a variety of benefits for individuals suffering from digestive and metabolic concerns, such as:
- Reducing bloating and discomfort
- Regulating bowel movements
- Alleviating acid reflux and indigestion
- Supporting nutrient absorption
- Reducing fluid retention
- Improving energy levels
- PMS-related digestive + metabolic symptoms
- Digestive + metabolic issues linked to medication
- Reducing stress levels
- Hormonal balance
info + faq
Frequently Asked Questions
Acupuncture works by stimulating points that regulate the digestive system, improve circulation, and reduce inflammation. Finding the root cause of the IBS and bloating is important and is a deciding factor on which approach to take - whether IBS is related to stress, the menstrual cycle, food intolerances, or hormones.
Acupuncture techniques such as safely heating the needles with moxibustion and/or infrared heat therapy help to enhance circulation and activate metabolic processes.
Digestive issues and a weak metabolism can result from poor diet, stress, food intolerances, hormonal imbalances, medications, and underlying health conditions. Lack of physical activity, genetics, and chronic stress can also slow metabolism, leading to weight gain, fatigue, and sluggish digestion. Both can often be addressed with holistic treatments like acupuncture, along with dietary and lifestyle changes
Yes, acupuncture treatments can offer support based on the nature of the weight loss program. For dietary programs recommended by professionals, acupuncture can boost metabolic and digestive functions and support the emotional processes that can accompany weight loss journeys. For workout programs, acupuncture can also offer post-workout recovery and pain reduction.
