Female doctor's sports beauty secrets: running + abdominal breathing

The benefits of exercise are not only burning fat and improving health, but it can also make people "ageless" and even make them more beautiful the more they move. However, if you want to enhance the beauty and anti-aging effects, Chinese medicine practitioners share their secrets for beautiful skin through exercise, which is to use abdominal breathing while running, and to massage the acupoints along the stomach meridian after taking a shower to maintain a good complexion like an apple.

Exercise helps to increase the basal metabolic rate, promote physical health, and also has the effect of beautifying the skin.

Rejuvenation! Regular exercise can also fight aging

Dong Yirong, a Chinese medicine doctor at the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Changhua Christian Hospital, said that exercise can increase the basal metabolic rate, help burn excess body fat, control body temperature, stimulate blood circulation, increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, and transmit it to various parts of the body including the skin through the microvessels, making the skin appear rosy and elastic.

She said that people who do not have the habit of exercising are prone to obesity and skin aging. In contrast, people who exercise regularly always feel "rejuvenated". Not only do their bodies become healthier, but the frequency of aches and illnesses decreases, and the whole person looks radiant and appears to be getting younger and younger.

Another reason why exercise is good for beauty is that it can stimulate the brain to secrete endorphins, making people happy. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine that the seven emotions and six desires dominate human health, if the internal organs function in a coordinated manner, the circulation of qi and blood will be smooth, the body will be healthy, and the skin will naturally be hydrated. In short, exercise helps your skin fight aging.

Moderate intake of protein foods after exercise can replenish the body's lost energy and repair damaged skin cells. (Photography by Hong Yuqi)

Sports Beauty Abdominal Breathing + Nutritional Supplement

However, with the same amount of exercise, some people have a rosy complexion after exercise, while others have a pale complexion. Chinese medicine practitioners believe that this may be related to the incorrect exercise method. In addition to choosing aerobic exercises such as walking, jogging, rhythmic dance, swimming, etc., you should also pay attention to whether the exercise intensity is within your personal physical capacity, and whether you are doing the right breathing method during exercise.

Chinese medicine practitioner Dong Yirong uses running as an example. If you want to "run for beauty", you should first master the breathing secret of "regulating qi, not wasting qi". Don't run too fast. Take a full breath with every breath when running. Use abdominal breathing, inhale through the nose and send the air to the dantian, then exhale slowly and evenly through the mouth. This helps regulate the qi and blood between the abdomen and stomach, allowing it to flow smoothly to all parts of the body, avoiding pale face and poor complexion caused by excessive qi consumption during exercise, which may damage your health.

Elderly people with poor joint function can train their leg muscle strength by walking or walking in water, or by clapping and swinging their hands to expand their chests to inhale more oxygen, thereby training their cardiopulmonary function and stimulating the circulation of qi and blood in the heart and lung meridians.

Exercise consumes energy and causes certain damage to cells. Female friends should never force themselves to exercise continuously or adopt intense fasting methods in order to lose weight. Chinese medicine practitioners remind us that we should rest when we feel tired, and replenish protein, starch, water, etc. within half an hour to an hour after exercise to repair damaged cells and restore the body and skin to health.

If you want to enhance the beauty effect of your facial skin, you can massage the acupuncture points on your face after exercising and taking a shower. This will help promote blood circulation in your face and achieve a skin-beautifying effect.

Love face! Massage the stomach meridian points after exercise

Exercise can promote blood circulation throughout the body, but for women who care about their appearance, good complexion is more important than other parts of the body. How can we enhance the "beauty" effect of exercise? Chinese medicine practitioner Dong Yirong recommends that after exercising and taking a shower, when the capillaries are dilated and blood circulation is best, you can massage the facial acupoints along the stomach meridian, from under the eye sockets, cheekbones, corners of the mouth, chewing muscles, and down the mandibles on both cheeks to the neck and breasts.

Among the many meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, the stomach meridian extends from the head to the feet. The acupuncture points along the meridian are characterized by abundant qi and blood. If you want to enhance the beauty effect of the face, in addition to directly massaging the above-mentioned facial meridians, you can also do acupoint massage on the Zusanli point on the leg, the Xiaguan point on the cheek, and the Zuzu point, Sizhukong point, and Tongzijiao point on the inside of the eyebrows. This helps to maintain the stomach and intestines, regulate qi and blood circulation, and eliminate dark circles and wrinkles around the eyes.

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