Acupuncture for Weight Loss
Maintaining a healthy weight is essential for optimum health, well-being and physical vitality - but sometimes this can be a difficult accomplishment. There are many factors that can cause excessive weight gain and an inability to lose weight such as undetected food allergies, stress, anxiety, depression, unstable glucose levels, or inflammatory responses such as arthritis, chronic fatigue fibromyalgia. Whatever your weight loss struggles may be, we can help get to the root of imbalance so you can lose weight, keep it off, and feel your best. Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicine offer time-tested remedies for reducing cravings, improving energy, alleviating joint pain and muscle fatigue, regulating metabolism and reducing stress.
Reducing Cravings & Addressing Addictions
Food provides us with an enormous amount of nutritional benefits, but also emotional benefits. Over time, dietary habits can be hard to break (mostly due to emotional ties). For this reason, typical dieting tends to lead to a common feeling of insufficiency and can ignite cravings and addictions we didn't even know were there in the first place. Taking away food that the body (and mind) is used to enjoying often engulfs a person in a cycle of binging and obsession. Acupuncture can help on a neurological level to reduce cravings and stop addictive behavior. In fact, acupuncture is so successful at resolving addictions, many rehabilitation clinics across the country train their staff in auricular acupuncture to alleviate a variety of addictions. Although on its surface weight gain may not seem like "addictive behavior," it most certainly can be the result of habitual eating that the system has now become accustomed to and even physically dependent on. Trying to change our diets can be difficult, frustrating and exhausting. Acupuncture can work at the root level to make this process positive, easy and successful.
Detoxifying the System
Carrying excess weight is often a sign that your body is not processing things efficiently or correctly. The cause for this could be from a number of reasons, but a good place to start is a simple detoxification to cleanse the body of unwanted toxins and debris. Such a regimen would include Acupuncture to detoxify the liver, herbs to facilitate digestion and reduce inflammation and a diet modification to stabilize blood sugars and eliminate potential allergens. Although this diet modification can initially feel too limiting to maintain, that is because it is! Detoxification is meant to provide a deep clean so that equilibrium can then be achieved. For this purpose, our recommendations include whole foods so you feel satiated and a timeframe that is manageable based on individual assessment.
Giving Your Metabolism a Re-Boot
After a simple detoxification, we will help you continue finding the appropriate support for your individual needs. What caused the imbalance in the first place? Is excess weight a genetic predisposition for you? What are the road-blocks that continue to get in the way of your optimum vitality and health? Whatever the root, acupuncture and herbs will help your digestion and metabolism work at its best. We will also help reduce your stress, which is known to cause elevated hormones in the body that cause it to hold excess weight. Once your digestion is up and running at its best, frequent acupuncture and herbs will no longer be necessary - your system has been nourished from the root up, yielding lasting benefits.
Emotional Health
Trying to lose weight under any circumstance causes stress. People handle stress in all different ways, and Acupuncture can help release tension in the body, boost feelings of depression and regulate mood swings accompanied by -or preventing you from- losing weight. Exercise will also release important endorphins in the body to help it deal with stress. However, many of the same reasons mentioned in the first paragraph of this article also inhibit individuals from working out. Acupuncture and herbs can help increase energy, promote restful sleep, and alleviate muscle and joint pains that may be preventing you from keeping up with consistent exercise so you can get back on track.
Scheduling Your Visit
Acupuncture works best at reducing weight when done frequently and consistently over a period of time. Our goal is to assist you in making lasting change. This is a process that takes time, but is well worth the commitment. For this reason, we offer special weight-loss packages that help save you money while reaching your goals.
| The Premier | The Basic | The Detoxifier** |
| -Initial Evaluation | -Initial Evaluation | -10 Day Supply Medical |
| -Herbal Consultation & Prescription* | -Herbal Consultation & Prescription* | - Detox Powder |
| -TCM Nutritional Evaluation | -TCM Nutritional Evaluation | -10 Day Detox Food Plan |
| -14 Acupuncture Treatments | -8 Acupuncture Treatments | -Unlimited Email Support |
| $1500 | $350 Savings $950 | $150 Savings $60 |
*Does not include cost of herbs
**May not be purchased without Initial Consult or Package
In good health,
Erin Hessel, L.Ac
Clinic Director, The Berkley Center for Women's Health
Licensed Acupuncturist, Board Certified in Herbal Medicine
www.berkleywomenshealth.com
erinhessel@berkleycenter.com
