Can your acupuncture support your weight loss goals? Yes, it can. How? Acupuncture works to balance hormones, calm food cravings and helps your body achieve positive weight loss results. Acupuncture can also help with stress management and sleep disorders which throw off your body’s metabolism and fat storage functions. 

Dr Oz reports that “of particular interest is the ability of acupuncture to influence obesity hormones. Research measuring the effectiveness of acupuncture for weight loss found treatments increased ghrelin, a hormone that controls meal initiation and decreased leptin, the hormone that regulates fat storage and metabolism.” Also, “the guiding principal is that acupuncture can power up any other weight control strategy by curbing appetite, quelling cravings, boosting metabolism, improving digestion, regulating obesity-related hormones and enhancing the way nutrients are used. It also strengthens the function of the liver, the organ that produces many chemicals critical for digestion, processing nutrients and breaking down of fats. Acupuncture may also increase tone in the smooth muscle of the stomach to help people know that they are full.”

Call to set up a appointment with me at my Brookfield, WI clinic and we can determine a acupuncture treatment plan along with weight loss diet recommendations and you should be able to get on track to an effective weight loss strategy to be the best you can be.

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