“We spend so much of our time racing to work or getting the kids to school, all which utilize our fight-or-flight nervous system, or sympathetic nervous system. Acupuncture helps us relax and shift into our parasympathetic, or rest-and-digest, nervous system.”
This process increases hormones associated with a positive mood.
“This important shift changes our neurochemistry, increasing our ‘happy’ hormones, such as serotonin and epinephrine, and decreasing our main ‘stress’ hormone, cortisol.”