Acupuncture for weight loss? The One Family Wellness Center is providing a great alternative treatment for losing weight. It works as an appetite suppressant, helps boost metabolism and enables relaxation. Learn how acupuncture works and why you should give it a try for losing those extra pounds.

Important Benefits

An important benefit of acupuncture is that there are no harmful side effects and no possibility for addiction. Like all natural methods, it is a completely safe and helpful way to enhance your effort to lose weight. Along with a healthy eating plan, acupuncture is a perfectly natural means of boosting your weight loss plan.

Let's examine how acupuncture helps to increase metabolism and keep your appetite under control.

Regulates Metabolism: Acupuncture also helps to regulate metabolism. A history of irregular eating, overeating and even thyroid dysfunction all contribute to a slow metabolism. Acupuncture can help to increase metabolism by stimulating the thyroid and endocrine glands as your body adjusts to the changes in your diet and exercise. Affecting the endocrine system also helps to stabilize blood sugar levels.

Stops Food Cravings: Regular acupuncture treatments can help curb food cravings, just as it has been proven to help cravings for other addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol. Support from acupuncture helps to eliminate cravings and increases the will power to overcome them.

Helps Digestion

Over time, things like crash diets, irregular eating habits and excessive greasy or fattening foods all take their toll on the digestion. Chronic symptoms such as bloating, gas, heartburn, constipation or diarrhea are all signs that the digestive system is out of balance. Acupuncture can help to harmonize the digestive organs so that you are symptom-free. Proper digestion ensures that you are getting the nutrients you need from your food so you feel less hungry.