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Acupuncture for Anxiety in Raleigh, NC: Understanding the Connection Between Mind and Body

By Dr. Adam Gries, DACM, L.Ac. | Awakenings Health One of the things I love most about practicing Chinese medicine is working with people who are experiencing anxiety. It’s an area of medicine that I find particularly fascinating because anxiety is rarely as simple as it initially appears. Our thoughts, emotions, and physical bodies are constantly influencing one another, and

Adam Oct 21st, 2026

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How Does Stress Affect the Gut?

Feeling stressed, anxious, angry or sad while eating will have a short and long-term effect on the functions of the gastrointestinal tract. Research continues to report that exposure to stress results in alterations of the bidirectional microbiota-gut-brain axis interactions (“brain-gut axis”).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀“The major effects of stress on gut physiology include: 1) alterations in gastrointestinal motility; 2) increase in visceral perception; 3) changes

Adam Jul 24th, 2019

Acupuncture for Anxiety in Raleigh, NC: Understanding the Connection Between Mind and Body

How Does Stress Affect the Gut?

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