Using Acupuncture and Healthy Sleep Habits to Decrease Stress
Stress is widespread among American adults. Stress regularly causes physical symptoms that can manifest as insomnia, headaches, muscular pains, emotional disturbance, etcetera.
How Acupuncture Relieves Stress: Acupuncture can have a stress-relieving effect. Acupuncture has been shown by research studies to reduce insomnia and anxiety while increasing nocturnal melatonin secretion. Melatonin is a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle, and more of it may help you sleep better. Anxious adults with insomnia demonstrated significant reductions in anxiety improved their sleep onset, arousal, total sleep time, and sleep efficiency over five weeks. (1) Talk to your practitioner about your goals for treatment and discuss your needs for stress relief. Give Pema Chen Acupuncture a call at 201-431-5066 or contact us online here : CONTACT
(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14990755
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How Acupuncture Relieves Stress: Acupuncture can have a stress-relieving effect. Acupuncture has been shown by research studies to reduce insomnia and anxiety while increasing nocturnal melatonin secretion. Melatonin is a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle, and more of it may help you sleep better. Anxious adults with insomnia demonstrated significant reductions in anxiety improved their sleep onset, arousal, total sleep time, and sleep efficiency over five weeks. (1) Talk to your practitioner about your goals for treatment and discuss your needs for stress relief. Give Pema Chen Acupuncture a call at 201-431-5066 or contact us online here : CONTACT
(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14990755
Disclaimer: All Content provided on or through the Site is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis or treatment, and is not designed to promote or endorse any medical practice, program or agenda. Please speak with your doctor before making any changes to your lifestyle. This article is written by Pema Chen Acupuncture in February of 2019.
Copyright © May 2019 Pema Chen Acupuncture. , All rights reserved.
