Pivotal Acupuncture + Wellness

My name is Alina Sepeda and I am a licensed acupuncturist in San Diego with a Masters of Science degree in Oriental Medicine. I have always been interested in health and fitness in some way or another and trying to recruit people to explore those areas of life with me. I have gone through many phases in my journey towards finding what exactly is optimum health for me.

You have probably already read or heard that Chinese Medicine has been practiced for thousands of years. As we practice it today, that is more than 2000 years. But what you may not know is that Chinese Medicine has the longest written medical record of any medicine in the world. Conventional medicine- that's the medicine your doctor practices- has only been practiced as we know it since the fourteenth century.

In the last five years, acupuncture has slowly begun to trickle into mainstream awareness. Many states now cover acupuncture in their insurance plans and if you ask many people what acupuncture does, they will say pain relief. Well, they are right. First, it restores homeostasis, meaning it helps the body to return to its natural state of internal stability.

Conventional, Western medicine is brilliant in a lot of areas. People have been able to live normal lives after horrible car crashes and other near fatal accidents. And that's because Western medicine is great at keeping people alive. But what it isn't great at is keeping people pain-free. In fact, Western medicine defines chronic pain as pain that can be controlled or managed but not cured.

Achieving and maintaining good health in our modern age can seem like chasing the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow- evasive to say the least. We seem to get busier and busier as time goes on. We don't make time for the things that sustain us. Because of this, the prevalence of obesity and chronic disease in America is at an all time high.