Can Qigong help you lose weight?

We often see some elderly people practicing qigong in some squares. Qigong can promote people's physical health to a certain extent, and can help people relieve stress. But many people will ask, can qigong help lose weight? According to the answers given by some experts, Qigong can help you lose weight, and the effect is quite obvious. Now let us find out whether Qigong can help you lose weight?

Qigong therapy is a unique medical and health care method in my country. Qigong weight loss is a method that has been refined, processed and adapted based on folk exercises in recent years, and has been given a new name, attracting a large number of weight loss fans.

Qigong prevents and cures diseases by regulating the body, mind and breathing to strengthen one's essence, energy and spirit. Practicing Qigong can not only improve your health, prevent and cure diseases, but also help you lose weight. In recent years, Qigong weight loss has been applied in clinical practice and is quite popular among patients.

Practicing Qigong to lose weight does not require medication or injections. It is simple and easy to practice and master, has no side effects, and does not cause obvious hunger. By practicing Qigong, one can shift one's attention to the focused thinking required by Qigong, which can alleviate hunger to a certain extent. At the same time, Qigong can adjust one's own functions, thus playing a role in weight loss. This shows that qigong does not help you lose weight by simply reducing food intake, but rather relies on the power of qigong to consume excess energy, thereby achieving the goal of losing weight.

Target Group

Qigong weight loss can be used for general obese people, and is more suitable for obese people who are not suitable for other weight loss methods.

Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Qigong is a practice that enables practitioners to exert their subjective initiative and unleash the potential of the human body. By adjusting the body (posture), mind (intention), and breath (respiration), it trains the human essence, energy, and spirit, adjusts the body's physiological functions, and achieves the goal of physical and mental health. It requires a "combination of movement and stillness" in its training methods, emphasizing that during the training process, a person's spirit, form, and qi (spirit, body, and breath) should be actively combined. The characteristics of Qigong such as integrity, initiative, external stillness and internal movement, and the combination of movement and stillness are all the mechanisms of Qigong's ability to "cure diseases and prolong life". It uses the theory of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and meridians and internal organs to explain the laws of birth, aging, illness and death. It regards essence, Qi and spirit as the three treasures of human beings, and takes harmonizing Yin and Yang, invigorating Qi and nourishing the body as the theoretical basis for health preservation and bodybuilding. From a modern perspective, Qigong exercises can help improve physical and mental health and help lose weight.

Qigong exercise can play a good regulatory role on the cerebral cortex and subcortical centers, the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular system, and adjust the body's physiological functions, thereby correcting the body's abnormal reactions. This is the overall effect of Qigong exercise. Qigong has a certain massage effect on the abdominal organs through breathing exercises, and has the effect of strengthening the local abdominal muscles and reducing fat through special breathing methods. But the reason why Qigong can help lose weight is not only because of its local weight loss effect, but it should also be considered mainly from the characteristics of Qigong. Qigong exercises require a state of tranquility, which puts people in a "relaxed state". This can adjust, improve and enhance the electrical activity of brain cells, help adjust brain function, improve the coordination of the autonomic nervous system, and help the brain control and adjust the functions of various organs, including the adjustment of endocrine metabolism, which is a very important aspect for weight loss. In addition, Qigong exercises can dredge the meridians and harmonize Qi and blood. We know that meridians are pathways that circulate Qi and blood throughout the body, connect the internal organs, communicate up and down, inside and outside, and regulate various parts of the body. They communicate with the internal organs inside and the limbs outside.

Through the above answer to the question of whether qigong can help lose weight, I believe you have your own answer. No matter which method we choose to lose weight in life, it must be based on scientific, effective and reasonable premise. We cannot do something very unscientific in order to lose weight, such as dieting, etc. This is not good. Although dieting can make people lose weight in a short period of time, it will have a certain rebound.