What is the specific difference between dietary restrictions, like the egg diet, and Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) weight loss programs?
Egg diets focus on high protein and yield rapid initial weight loss, but often lead to plateaus and extreme fatigue due to nutritional imbalance. In contrast, TKM weight loss does not simply restrict intake; it focuses on boosting the body's overall metabolic function to create an internal environment that naturally burns fat more efficiently.
Many people attempt trendy restrictive diets, only to experience 'brain fog' and dizziness. From a TKM perspective, this state is often viewed as Spleen Deficiency (脾虛, Bi-heo). When the Spleen's function is weakened, digestion and absorption decline, leading to lethargy and a lowered basal metabolic rate, which ironically makes the body more prone to gaining weight even with small amounts of food. If you restrict your diet too severely, the body enters a 'survival mode' and clings more tightly to fat stores.
Our TKM approach focuses on clearing 'Dam-eum' (痰飮, accumulated phlegm-fluid/metabolic waste) and 'Eo-hyeol' (瘀血, blood stasis). Much like unclogging a drain to let water flow, we restore the body's circulation to increase the efficiency of body fat combustion. The core of TKM weight loss is shifting the focus from 'what I eat' to 'how my body burns.' The most effective first step is to accurately diagnose your current metabolic state and constitution.
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