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Isthmus Acupuncture Dietary Recommendations
At Isthmus Acupuncture Center, we work to heal the entire body while alleviating symptoms, restoring balance and encouraging the body to heal itself. An important part of your healing process is ensuring you have healthful foods appropriate for your specific body type and avoid those that are not beneficial. This is so vital, in fact, your practitioner may ask you to make dietary changes to boost your acupuncture and massage treatments, offering you the maximum effectiveness from your care here.
Chinese Dietary Therapy Recommendations
These dietary suggestions are not strict guidelines to follow, but rather a foundation for a healthier pattern of eating based on your Chinese pathology. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) examines the different nature of foods and their effects on the body’s organs. Food has different thermal qualities, such as hot, warm, neutral, cool, or cold; eating the proper food can vary and suggestions will change person to person. These guidelines help you eat to fit your pattern, therefore, benefiting your overall health.
Connecting the Dots: Basal Body Temperature Charting
Basal Body Temperature (BBT) charting serves many purposes, the most important of which may be to confirm ovulation and distinguish fertile times in a woman’s cycle. In its simplest form, BBT charting consists of taking your waking temperature daily, recording it onto a graph, and reading the results to confirm whether or not ovulation has occurred. Monitoring BBT can help women have a sense of accomplishment and hope as they begin their transformation to motherhood.
I'm Pregnant. Now What?
Pregnancy is an exciting and amazing time. Changes in a woman’s body usually begin very early. If you have been working with us for fertility enhancement please contact us as soon as possible to review your supplements and plan individual treatment schedules for the first trimester. If you haven’t worked with us prior to becoming pregnant, please schedule an initial consultation as soon as possible.
What’s Actually in Your Prenatal Vitamin?
When new patients come in for an initial consultation, most are on poor quality prenatal vitamins. Uninformed consumers purchase inexpensive vitamins from local grocery stores or national pharmacy chains believing all vitamins are equal. Generic replacements for paper products and some pharmaceutical drugs are acceptable, but generic vitamin supplements are not satisfactory. In the vitamin world, you get what you pay for.
What To Look For in a Vitamin Supplement
In a perfect world, all necessary nutrients would come from a complete, well-balanced diet. Unfortunately, with today’s processed and refined foods, crops grown in depleted soil and shipped over long distances, and often poor dietary choices, most people do not get the more than 40 nutrients needed every day. Supplementing your diet with a multivitamin or prenatal vitamin can help fill in the gaps left by diet.
Michelle was with me throughout my struggle to conceive. Michelle’s acupuncture and herb treatments not only helped me feel great, but complimented my in vitro fertilization treatment and optimized its success. With the help of her acupuncture and herb treatments, I was able to successfully conceive and have a beautiful baby boy after years of trying. As important, Michelle never gave up hope that I could get pregnant and have a successful pregnancy. Her treatments also helped me feel great throughout my pregnancy. Michelle was an integral part of a team of people who helped me get pregnant and have my son. I am so thankful for Michelle!”
