From the current medical point of view, obesity is not a disease, but it is a common problem of many modern people. There are many ways to lose weight on the market, but few of them are effective, and no effective method is suitable for everyone. No one can guarantee that even if it is effective for a while, there will be no sequelae.
Some celebrities who have successfully achieved the goal of losing weight will be respected by the public and begin to teach people to lose weight, but not many of his students really lose weight.
Some people succeeded in reducing fat, but they soon relaxed and did not continue to take various measures to lose weight. People have gained weight again and are getting fatter and fatter. Therefore, measures to lose weight must be done for a long time, and losing weight has become a work that requires perseverance and perseverance.
From these phenomena, it is obvious that the pathological study of obesity in modern medicine has not been really clarified.
The understanding of obesity in modern medicine is that when the human body is over-nourished, the body will store excess fat under the skin, which will lead to obesity, that is, the substance added by obesity is fat, and fat is a kind of stored energy. This theory is mainly based on the observation of some hibernating animals.
Some animals with hibernation habits will eat a lot of food before winter comes, and their bodies will gain weight obviously, and then they will sleep all winter, and their bodies will be supported by energy stored in the form of fat.
In fact, only a few animals in nature have the habit of hibernating. Maybe their bodies are designed to have this function. Obviously, human beings have no habit and ability to hibernate, so they should not have this function when designing. At the same time, many fat people don't eat much. On the contrary, many thin people eat surprisingly much, but they don't accumulate fat under the skin. Does this energy storage function vary from person to person?
If you carefully observe the "fat" on the fat man, you can feel that the excess "fat" is separated from the body and does not seem to be a part of the body tissue when you "scratch" and "pat" with your hands. When we have the opportunity to check the fat pork bought in the market, we can find that some fat pork is not connected with its tissue and can be easily separated by hand, but some fat pork is directly connected with subcutaneous tissue, which is obviously different.
Some people's lipomas will change their location, and it is obvious that these tumors are separated from the body. In other words, these redundant substances are not human tissues, but substances in the interstitial spaces. These substances may be nutrients containing energy, and it is more likely that the body is unable to excrete garbage.
Those substances are called fat only because of a specious truth realized from hibernating animals, and there is no conclusive evidence. But today, almost all the theories and methods of losing weight are developed from this theory, trying to prevent the increase or decrease of "fat". The main method is to reduce energy intake or fat consumption. For example, control diet to prevent excessive calories from being converted into fat; Exercise consumes fat energy; Even direct extraction of fat through surgery ... and so on are all methods developed by animal hibernation theory.
Obviously, these methods are not very clever, so many people can't get rid of fat even if they use these methods, and even lose fat and continue to grow. But there are also many people who will not get fat even if they don't live according to this rule.
Careful observation of the traces left by age on the body and face will reveal that with the growth of age, more and more "things" are accumulated on the face and body. If those things are fat, does it mean that the older you get, the more energy you store? Obviously, this is just the opposite of the actual situation. People who have less things seem to have better physical fitness.
With the increase of age, the blood gas energy is decreasing, and more and more garbage is discharged from the body, and more and more wrinkles and spots are found. Like an old house, it always leaves indelible marks everywhere.
We use the experience of TCM diagnosis to construct a new logic of obesity:
"When the body's blood gas energy is not enough, there is not enough energy to excrete the waste in the body. These refuse that can't be discharged is piled up in the cracks in the internal tissues of the body. As the accumulated garbage gradually increases, people will gradually get fat. "
From this new logic, obesity is not an excess of energy, but the body stores too much energy; On the contrary, there is not enough energy, so that the body does not have enough energy to excrete garbage. From the energy point of view, the two are completely opposite, the former is energy surplus and the latter is energy shortage. This logic almost runs counter to traditional cognition, but it can make a more reasonable explanation for various obesity phenomena.
For example, many fat people don't eat much, but they are always fat; I often hear fat people complain that they will get fat even if they drink water. Sometimes this is not an adjective, but a real situation. Many thin people won't get fat if they eat more. There is no direct relationship between the obesity and food intake of these two types of people. People who eat less will get fat, but people who eat more will not. There is no direct relationship between how much people eat and how much they are fat, and the energy storage theory can't explain the difference between them. But with the theory that there is no energy to discharge garbage, it is easy to explain the difference between the two.
Fat people are fat because the body doesn't have enough energy to discharge garbage, and those garbage that can't be discharged cause obesity. Because of the different energy of two people, different results are caused. In fact, usually two people of similar age, the thin man's physical strength is often stronger than that of the fat man, and the fat man always sits still, while the thin man always keeps moving.
Another example is obesity caused by age differences. Because young people don't accumulate much garbage in their bodies, and at the same time, the meridians are unobstructed and the energy of qi and blood is high, most of the garbage can be discharged, and even if the food intake is amazing, it is not easy to gain weight. The blood gas energy of the elderly is declining, the garbage is accumulating more and more, the meridians are gradually blocked, and more and more garbage can't be discharged, so they gradually get fat. Moreover, wrinkles are formed in the thick parts of facial subcutaneous fat accumulation, and some pigment garbage accumulates on the skin, forming spots. The older you get, the more rubbish you have. Young people feel beautiful because people have an intuitive sense of cleanliness. It is more reasonable to explain these phenomena with the fattening logic of "not having enough energy to remove garbage" than the traditional fattening theory of "overnutrition".
If the substance that causes obesity is fat that stores energy, then the body must store this energy in the same way and convert it into use in the same way. Then most of these fats should be stored in the same place, so obese people should all be of the same size. But in fact, most fat people are obese in different parts and have different bodies.
"Wang" in TCM diagnostics is a very important method, among which "Wang" is the most important. "Observation" looks at the obese figure, that is, the state of garbage accumulation in various meridians.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, when the vitality of an organ is poor, the vitality of its corresponding meridians is also relatively poor. For example, when your stomach is cold, you can feel that the temperature is lower than the surrounding area by touching your stomach. At this time, the physiological activity under this part of the skin is definitely worse than that around it, and of course it will pile up garbage.
For another example, some people have a lot of fat on the outside of their thighs, which is where the gallbladder passes. Therefore, it can be asserted that this person's gallbladder function must be very poor and he does not like sports. If this person likes sports, the garbage accumulated in this part will flow down and accumulate on the calf to form radish legs. Therefore, people with radish legs are characterized by poor gallbladder function and love sports. The symptoms of the former mostly appear in women, while the latter mostly appear in male or female athletes. This diagnosis completely conforms to this new obesity logic, which is also verified by clinical diagnosis, and also conforms to the actual situation of patients.
In addition, the subcutaneous fat on the forehead is so thick that wrinkles appear. Because it is the place where the large intestine passes, it can be concluded that there are many lesions in this person's large intestine. Hypertrophy of cheeks on both sides of the chin is also a problem of the large intestine meridian. The higher part near the ear is thicker, which is a problem of the small intestine meridian; The front cheek, thicker at the moment and on both sides of the nose, is caused by stomach trouble; ... and so on are all diagnostic methods based on this obesity theory.
In our experience, when the blood gas of the human body rises to the stage of yang deficiency, the body will begin to repair various organs, and when the organs are repaired, the garbage of the corresponding meridians will begin to be discharged. In the past, some people had a thick layer of garbage under their heads and felt soft. After several times of gastrointestinal cleaning (with your own body), the garbage on your head was discharged, leaving only a thin layer of skin.
For another example, most of our friends who accept our strokes in triplicate, after knocking for a while, the fat on the outside of the thigh disappears. Even after the qi and blood increase and the gallbladder channel is dredged, the garbage accumulated on the gallbladder channel will be discharged. If garbage is energy stored by human body, it should not be easily discharged by human body.
It is not only fat people who have garbage accumulation. Some thin people have weak lungs, and their bodies can't absorb water. The water they drink is directly discharged without being distributed to various organs. If this person also has the problem of spleen deficiency, then a lot of garbage will accumulate on his body, but the water in the garbage is very little, and most of the garbage is in a dehydrated state, dry and flat, not fat, strong to the touch, black and thin.
Once this kind of person is nursed back to health, when the body's blood gas rises to the degree of yang deficiency and begins to have the ability to remove garbage, he will quickly fill the garbage with water and let it flow between the tissues of the body so as to be excreted. So in a very short time, this person's weight will rise linearly and his volume will expand rapidly. We have encountered such an example. In just a few months, the patient weighed dozens of kilograms and his arms were more than twice as thick. From a black and thin person, he was fat for nothing. Because this person's stomach has many problems, his body must be removed together with these organ problems, so it takes a long time to lose weight.
Although we didn't take losing weight as the main service item in these years, we can observe the changes of these wastes in the body in many different patients. We are convinced that obesity is not the result of eating too much, but the result of eating too little.