Dietary and Lifestyle Advice
9:1 for lifestyle
The Chinese Classics about medicine and healthcare are adamant about what keeps people healthy: one part treatment, nine parts lifestyle.
While modern "scientific" research often implies that one way of diet, rest, exercise and lifestyle is right for everyone, all traditional medical systems, including Chinese medicine, stress the fact that "Nothing is right for everyone." Thus, it is important you know about your constitution, and about what helps you stay healthy and what to better avoid.
Our habits regarding diet, work, exercise and rest influence our health strongly. The effect of anything we do for weeks, months or years, add up. Thus, knowing what is good for oneself, and forming habits around that knowledge is the best way to care for our well-being.
It also means that even small adjustments carried over a long time will make a big difference.
Consultation about your constitution's strengths and weaknesses, and the effects of your diet and lifestyle is a regular and very important part of treatment. I help you find both what keeps you healthy and ways to include these new habits increasingly into your life.