This sugar cravings acupuncture case study describes how we helped a 42-year-old woman overcome lifelong sugar cravings by restoring her body’s natural balance. Digestive disharmony is common in women over forty, and dieting is not the answer. Instead, strengthening metabolism and reducing stress are the linchpins for restoring health and wellbeing.
Sugar Cravings Acupuncture Case Study
Our patient came to Raleigh Acupuncture complaining of unexplained weight gain, high stress, and intense sugar cravings. She also craved carbohydrates, and despite her best efforts, she was unable to control her eating habits. Even when she did limit her food intake, she still failed to lose weight. Exercise did not help. She worked out at the gym four days a week but could not shed the ten pounds she had gained in the previous two years.
Dieting Does Not Work
We explained that dieting is not the best approach to losing weight loss and overcoming sweet cravings. Denying yourself food during a diet makes you feel miserable. And as soon as the diet ends, you gain the weight back, and the sugar cravings return. Acupuncture has a different, more wholesome approach.
Acupuncture Approach To Sugar Cravings
Thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine practitioners discovered that we could naturally resolve sugar cravings by strengthening our stomach metabolism. Weak stomachs crave sugar, while robust and healthy digestive systems desire healthy foods.
By the age of forty, our metabolic system naturally begins to decline. Add to that the stress of work, family, and life in general, and the pressures on our digestive system are immense. The result is a precipitous decline of our digestive system starting in the early forties.
This series of events is what happened to our patient in the aforementioned sugar cravings acupuncture case study. This 42-year-old mother of two was working too hard and had too much stress in her life. At a certain point, her digestive system began to decline rapidly. The result was that her sugar cravings exponentially increased, leading to excessive weight gain.
Acupuncture Solution For Sugar Cravings
Our patient’s Chinese medicine diagnosis was Spleen Qi deficiency and Liver Qi stagnation. This diagnosis is a common pattern imbalance found with women in their forties who have sugar cravings, stress, and weight gain. Her acupuncture treatment consisted of the following acupuncture points: ST36, LV3, SP3, PC6, LI10, CV12, ST21, CV6, Si Shen Cong, GV20, Yin Tong, and Ear Points Shen Men and Point Zero. We also prescribed a Chinese herbal formula.
Powerful Results
We treated her once a week, with each treatment lasting one hour. All the needles were sterile, single-use, and hair-thin. Her treatments were relaxing, and she fell asleep during her sessions. After two treatments, we had reduced her sugar cravings by 30%, and she had lost five pounds.
Two treatments later, the sugar cravings were 50% less, her stress was 50% reduced, and she had dropped another three pounds. By the end of her eight treatments, her sugar cravings were gone, and she had lost ten pounds. She no longer felt stressed, she was sleeping better, and she felt like her old self again.
Acupuncture had restored her digestive function by strengthening her stomach and reducing her stress. This simple yet powerful, balancing treatment has been used for centuries to heal naturally. Why use pills when our own body can heal itself? It is always best to try a natural healing solution first. It worked for our patient in this sugar cravings acupuncture case study, and it might work for you too.
Next Steps
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