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Treat Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Treat Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Treat Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
While conventional treatments like medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy can be effective for treating insomnia, alternative treatments like TCM may also offer promising benefits. If you’re struggling with sleepless nights, consider exploring TCM as an option for improving your sleep quality.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers a holistic approach to treat insomnia. Here are some of the ways that TCM can help treat insomnia:
- Regulating Qi and Blood flow: In TCM, insomnia is often attributed to imbalances in the flow of Qi (vital energy) and Blood in the body. TCM treatments like acupuncture and herbal remedies can help regulate this flow, promoting relaxation and calmness which can improve sleep quality.
- Balancing Yin and Yang: TCM emphasizes the balance of Yin and Yang energies in the body. TCM treatments can help restore balance between Yin and Yang energies, leading to improved sleep.
- Addressing underlying health conditions: Insomnia may be a symptom of an underlying health condition. TCM practitioners will identify the root cause of insomnia and treat any underlying health issues to improve sleep quality.
If you’re struggling with insomnia, consider consulting with a qualified TCM practitioner to develop a personalized treatment plan that can help you get the restful sleep you deserve.
Proven Weight Management Program
Treat Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Treat Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
To help you achieve & maintain a healthy weight, we provide comprehensive support via 6 steps:
- Understand why your body puts on weight
- Determine which part of your body is prone to store fat
- Design a customized action plan for YOU
- Utilize acupuncture and herbal strategies to assist in the nutrition and exercise plan. Get results fast!
- Our doctor will support you as a wellness consultant during your weight loss journey.
- Our community will provide the support you are looking for.
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Why Can We Help You Loss Weight and Keep it Off?
Because we follow Dr. Seung Choi's Yangsung Therapy, which is a multi-faceted approach (including behavior, mind, and inner-self) for the purpose of holistic treatment.
- The first dimension of "behavior" is the process of controlling behavioral guidelines such as diet and exercise.
- The second dimension of "mind" is the intellectual approach to emotions and thoughts that cause behavioral problems.
- The third dimension of "inner-self" is the process of correctly realizing the unconscious self, which is the source of conscious thought.
Ultimate Guide to weight loss
Weight Roller Coaster
Importance of Body Image
Importance of Body Image
Some people would be dedicated to
their diet for a certain amount of time and then fall back to binge eating.
People who ride this kind of roller coaster of yoyo dieting often have social or emotional difficulties.
Importance of Body Image
Importance of Body Image
Importance of Body Image
"If only I lose weight, I'll finally become pretty" But in fact, isn’t it the other way around?
Our job is to help you correct your body image. When you believe you are beautiful, your weight will fall.
Videos about this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NiBK2eubc&list=PL9eWEHQPXHwUhDjgYmIcICK8qIxFzLSxi&index=37
Emotional Eating
Importance of Body Image
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Above is an example of emotional eating copied from Dr. Seung Choi's classnote
Videos about this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-qW8sVYxu4&list=PL9eWEHQPXHwUhDjgYmIcICK8qIxFzLSxi&index=16
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Anyone can gain weight. We can experience some weight changes when we go through certain periods in our lives. When you gain extra weight, it is essential to not consider yourself as a fat person.
Statistics indicate that only 5 out of 100 succeed in dieting.
Fundamental Principles of Dietary Therapy
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Fundamental Principles of Dietary Therapy
Your success on a diet will be determined by how much you love and accept
yourself. A diet should be considered a tool for nurturing, not torturing yourself.
Therefore, an individual should not feel trapped, but rather be a master of your diet.
What You Don't Want to Do?
Gaining Some Weight Versus Feeling Like A Fat Person
Fundamental Principles of Dietary Therapy
When you think about your diet,
What is it that you really don’t want to do?
To focus on that specific thing would be
your shortcut to a success!
Videos about this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ms5G26ZCA&list=PL9eWEHQPXHwUhDjgYmIcICK8qIxFzLSxi&index=25
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WEIGHT LOSS (con't)
What Food Would Help You Lose Weight?
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
What Kind of Exercise is Good for You?
- Lose Weight: Foods abundant in nutrition & low in calories.
– tomatoes, eggs, tofu, vegetables,
white fish, lean meats…
• Gain Weight: Foods low in nutrition & high in calories.
– candies, cookies, ice cream, sugary drinks, alcohol...
What Kind of Exercise is Good for You?
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
What Kind of Exercise is Good for You?
Three important factors for your choice of exercise: fun, accessible, consistent.
When the exercise is fun and accessible, you would be able to keep it going and make it a consistent part of your life.
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
Remember to be patient with yourself and create a new rhythm during the initial four weeks, subsequently, it will become much easier.
By the third month your confidence will increase, you will be satisfied with your healthy eating plan and
you will be exercising regularly!
Ways to Moderate Your Appetite
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
New Lifestyle: Eat Healthy & Exercise Regularly
The point to success is making it your habit.
It's not a matter of your willpower.
If you failed a diet, it’s not because you have a weaker willpower. It’s because you haven’t formed a proper eating habit yet.
If you’re fighting against your appetite, you would definitely lose. The only way to win is to make it a lifelong habit.
Enjoy Your Snacks
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
You should eat everything you want during your diet, but in smaller amounts.
If you totally eliminate or restrict sweets that you enjoy, it will eventually backfire on you.
So, if there is a particular food you really want to have, eat it occasionally and in moderation.
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
Enemy of Your Diet – Being Perfect
Please remember that this is a journey and do not try to be perfect every day. Perhaps you might get a 90% score for yesterday, 60% for today, 70% for tomorrow. So, a couple of days of 0% wouldn’t matter in the end.
I have witnessed that people with an average of 60~80% daily scores are the ones who succeed the most.
- Dr. Seung Choi
weight-loss plateau
How to Overcome Weight-Loss Plateau
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-overcome-weight-loss-plateau-understanding-causes-gil-kariv
It is almost inevitable to experience a weight-loss plateau during your weight-loss journey.
Set Point
Everyone has a natural ‘set point’, the weight our body stays at when we eat healthily. Our DNA and the environment around us determine our set point.
Slow, gradual weight gain over many years can trick our body into thinking its set point is higher than it should be, which causes our body to resettle at a new, higher weight.
Our body is programmed to function optimally within our set-point range and will do everything to maintain it, it will increase your hunger and reduce your metabolism.
This is why a weight-loss plateau is important to allow our body’s metabolic rate and hunger levels to readjust back to normal. This happens when our body ‘resets’ to a new, lower set-point weight and then we can continue losing weight.
When it comes to sustaining a weight loss plan, controlling your hunger is crucial. Here are Dr. Tariq's do's and don'ts of controlling your hunger:
- Do choose foods with high fiber and less sugar
- Do fill yourself up by eating plenty of non-starchy vegetables (green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, etc)
- Do swap sweet snacks or desserts for fresh fruits
- Do choose healthy fats, such as nuts or seeds, over saturated ones
- Don't eat foods full of added sugar
- Don't drink your calories
- Don't assume a food is healthy — check the label!
Track your diet and exercise
The weight loss equation really is an equation. Losing weight is all about the math surrounding the number of calories going in versus the number of calories coming out. A calorie deficit leads to weight loss. A calorie surplus leads to weight gain.
Add strength training to your exercise routine
"Cardio is an efficient way to expend calories as you're working out, but building muscle can help you burn calories even when you're not exercising," says Dr. Tariq. "Lean body mass, which includes muscle, uses energy throughout the day — and it gets this energy by burning calories. The more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn while at rest."
Shift your weight loss mindset
While it's slower than you may like, the right way to approach setting weight loss goals is to aim for about a pound of weight loss every two to three weeks. Over the course of the year, that can add up to 20 to 25 pounds of weight loss.
Ultimately, the key is to stop thinking of dietary changes as a temporary phase — because even after you lose the weight, the task of keeping it off begins and relies on many of the same principles. Weight loss and weight maintenance will always be challenging. But if you can shift your mindset and build lasting healthy eating behaviors, both become much more manageable.
Physiology for Weight loss
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism
The story of carbohydrate metabolism is really the story of glucose metabolism.
From the above text (in the book Principles of Anatomy & Physiology) we can see if we over-consume carbohydrate food, the surplus will be converted to fat and stored up in our body and cause weight gain.
Lipid Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Source: Principles of Anatomy & Physiology
Figure 25.14 on page 955 of 14th Edition
Most fat we eat will be stored in fat depots throughout the body and in the liver if the body has no immediate need to use liquids to produce ATP
Protein Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Protein Metabolism
Chart source: https://slideplayer.com/slide/5699294/
Proteins have important functions in the body, eg. serve as antibodies, clotting chemicals, enzymes, etc.
If we eat more protein than the body needs, the surplus can be converted to fat and stored up in our body and cause weight gain.
Metabolic Rate
Regulation of Food Intake
Protein Metabolism
The following information comes from the textbook Principles of Anatomy & Physiology
Metabolic Rate: the overall rate at which metabolic reactions use energy.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR): the metabolic rate measured under standard conditions, with the body in a quiet, resting, and fasting condition.
BMR is 1200-1800 Cal/day in adults. The added calories needed to support daily activities, such as digestion and walking, range from 500 Cal for a small, relatively sedentary person to over 3000 Cal for a person in training for Olympic-level competitions or mountain climbing.
Energy Homeostasis
Regulation of Food Intake
Regulation of Food Intake
The following information comes from the textbook Principles of Anatomy & Physiology
Energy Homeostasis: the precise matching of energy intake to energy expenditure over time.
When the energy content of food balances the energy used by all the cells of the body, body weight remains constant (unless there is a gain or loss of water).
Energy intake depends on the amount of food consumed (and absorbed).
Three components contribute to total energy expenditure: BMR, physical activities, and food-induced thermogenesis
Regulation of Food Intake
Regulation of Food Intake
Regulation of Food Intake
The following information comes from the textbook Principles of Anatomy & Physiology
How is food intake regulated?
It depends on many factors, including neural and endocrine signals, levels of certain nutrients in the blood, psychological elements such as stress or depression, signals from the GI tract and the special senses, and neural connections between the hypothalamus and other parts of the brain.
Within the hypothalamus are clusters of neurons that play key roles in regulating food intake, eg. the satiety center.