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How Weather Effects Us?

We’ve all heard about how the weather affects how we feel.  Actually, it is thought to be the barometric pressure.  Here is what happens:

1.     We live within an ocean of air.  The atmospheric pressure pushing upon our body is enormous.  The reason we are not “crushed” by this air is because there is an equal pressure within us pushing outward.  Thus, the inside and outside pressures are neutralized.  See #1 below.

2.     The atmospheric pressure around us may drop suddenly before a storm.  The pressure inside of us pushing outward does not equalize as quickly as the atmospheric pressure around us, and so we “swell” or expand outward.  When this happens our bodyfluids flow into the tissue spaces, putting more pressure on the nerve endings.  Aches and pain are more likely to follow.  See #2 below.

3.     What comes down must go up (and visa versa), and so after the storm clears and the atmospheric pressure goes up, the environmental pressure “squeezes” our body.  This pushes the fluids from the tissue spaces back into the blood vessels.  Less pressure on the nerve endings result in the tissue spaces and the pain diminishes or disappears.  See #3 below

Of course, we cannot do anything about the level of health of our body so that is can cope better with the environment.  The answer lies with acupuncture treatments, which improve the body mechanics, blood circulation and nerve flow.  We enjoy greater health and less of the “weather related” aches and pains.

By Dr. David Chen                                                    U.S. Patent TXU 954-246

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