Food Therapy
Food therapy is a foundational part of Chinese medicine! I love discussing food therapy with patients - it is a simple way to profoundly impact your health.
Food therapy is an intuitive way of eating that takes into account your Chinese medicine patterns, the seasons and time of year, and how you’re currently feeling - in other words, it’s customized to you and how you’re feeling, and isn’t a cookie-cutter, dogmatic approach.
Chinese medicine food therapy isn’t a diet and isn’t about eliminating whole food groups, losing weight, counting calories (or macros), or expensive tests. It’s about moderation and nurturing yourself.
Interested in learning more? Click below to download the overview of Chinese medicine food therapy theory that I provide to patients. If you’re interested in customizing food therapy to your current needs, set up an appointment today!
Looking for food inspiration? Don’t miss the Recipes page!
“Food therapy is about the big picture. It's about looking at the average of the foods you eat all the time and how the food's properties impact your overall health. It's using your Chinese medicine diagnosis to understand how the foods you eat may be impacting your life.
It's not eliminating entire food groups, it's adapting what you eat and drink to what your body needs in the moment and to the seasons. It's about learning to listen to your body's symptoms as signals. It's about moderation. It's about learning how food makes you feel and nurturing yourself and your health through your food choices.
It's about truly thinking less about your food on a meal-to-meal basis (which means more time and energy to put towards...literally anything else).
I am not here to help people lose weight. Acupuncture can’t do that, and that’s not my training (or role). I am a firm believer that body size is not intrinsically related to health and that you can’t tell anything about someone’s health just by the size of their body. (check out asdah.org for more info)”