Danielle Kravitz

The egg you ovulate next month started maturing about 90 days ago🤫

That whole window is when it's most influenced by blood flow, hormones, and stress.

One session can calm your nervous system for a day. It can't rewrite three months of follicle development !!
Consistent acupuncture works cumulatively.

Research is exploring how regular treatment may support reproductive blood flow and help regulate the HPO axis that runs your cycle. Those effects build across cycles, not in a single visit.
Three months is simply the timeline nature already runs on. We meet ya there!

Across many traditional cultures, warm water was, and still is, considered a simple form of care. It is not a cure- all by any means, but it can be a small, accessible ritual that offers comfort when the body feels “off”.

Educational purposes only, not medical advice🤍

Over the last 20+ years, researchers have looked at 37 different acupuncture points using brain imaging techniques, with some really interesting insights👏🏼

The most frequently studied acupuncture points are LI4, ST36, PC6, LV3, and GB34. Maybe you are familiar with some of these points!

Interestingly, different points showed distinct and overlapping patterns of brain activity.

There is still so much to learn, but modern research gives us an intriguing look into some of the mechanisms behind acupuncture and how it may interact with the brain and nervous system. Pretty amazing to see modern science beginning to explore something practitioners have observed for centuries..

Peaceful Sunday..☕️🙂‍↔️

The Neuro-Science: Brain Wave Shift🌀

When you lay down and receive acupuncture, your brain leaves its predominantly active and alert state, known as the Beta wave state. The treatment flips your nervous system into “rest-and-digest” mode. Your brain waves slow down into Alpha, and then into Theta waves. Theta waves are the frequencies present in the hypnagogic space.

The TCM View: Yang Rooting into Yin🌀
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, falling into this state is a beautiful sign of balance. It represents your active, bright, and moving Yang energy gently anchoring and sinking down into your restful, nourishing, and cooling Yin energy. Your nervous system stops fighting the world and turns its focus inward to repair, restore, and move stuck Qi.

May not be what you think!!
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What the research finds across prospective cohort studies, adults who report higher purpose tend to have:

•Lower subsequent rates of depression, loneliness, negative affect, and sleep problems, plus higher life satisfaction, optimism, and social contact. In one nationally representative U.S. study of adults over 50, people in the highest purpose group had a 43% lower risk of subsequent depression over four years compared with those in the lowest group.

•More protective health behaviors, including a greater likelihood of remaining physically active, maintaining healthier sleep, using preventive care, and in some studies having healthier diets and lower smoking risk.

•Better physical-health indicators over time, including fewer functional limitations and lower subsequent risks of stroke, lung disease, cognitive impairment, and multiple chronic conditions in observational data.

•Lower mortality risk. A pooled analysis found that a high sense of purpose was associated with roughly one-fifth lower mortality risk and lower cardiovascular-event risk after statistical adjustment.

What are you going to get on your calendar next?