The Magic of Acupuncture Isn’t Magic, It’s Science #stressrelief [Video]

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When you have too much chronic stress, your brain cannot prioritize creative work or keep you motivated since you’re in survival mode. This is yet another reason that you need to take your stress seriously if you want to keep your edge. Stress is also linked to inflammation, which is behind all the big killers like coronary artery disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s.

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Li YW, Li W, Wang ST, Gong YN, Dou BM, Lyu ZX, Ulloa L, Wang SJ, Xu ZF, Guo Y. The autonomic nervous system: A potential link to the efficacy of acupuncture. Front Neurosci. 2022 Dec 8;16:1038945. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1038945. PMID: 36570846; PMCID: PMC9772996. Link here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9772996/
My blog post here. https://ksparrowmd.com/the-autonomic-nervous-system-a-potential-link-to-the-efficacy-of-acupuncture/

So How Does Acupuncture work on so many different conditions?
An 2022 Frontiers of Neuroscience article highlights the evidence for acupuncture’s effect on stress, in this case the autonomic nervous system. The Autonomic nervous system balances our systems between resting/digesting on the one hand and fighting and fleeing on the other. Sometimes we need to flee! But we modern humans keep ourselves in constant state of fight and flee mode because of our overactive brains, leading to stress problems.
The authors review studies from the last 20 years, supporting the fact that acupuncture alleviates the autonomic imbalance with too much fight response and not enough vagal activity. We see this imbalance in Migraine, depression and insomnia, stomach aches and constipation. Acupuncture stimulates autonomic centers in the brain and alleviates inflammation throughout the body which is tightly linked with stress, and accounts for acupuncture’s relief of pain.
I hope this helps this gives you a better understanding of how acupuncture can help with so many different conditions from headache to constipation. It’s all about autonomic balance and the vagus nerve!