Q I usually enjoy cold water, iced coffee, and salads—do these cold foods make cold sensitivity worse?
A Frequently eating cold food and drinks can chill the stomach and burden digestion and circulation, making you feel colder. Switching to warm water, cooked food, and warming ingredients can change the foundation of your circulation.
Detailed Answer
Cold food and drinks are not the only cause of cold sensitivity, but habitually eating a lot of cold items can burden the digestive system and keep the stomach cold, which can also affect whole-body circulation. Drinking warm water often, choosing cooked food over raw, and avoiding extreme low-calorie diets to secure energy for heat generation are helpful. Smoking and heavy drinking also hinder peripheral circulation, so reducing them together is good.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
In Korean medicine, the digestive system (spleen and stomach) is key to extracting warming energy from food. If the stomach is cold and digestion is weak, even eating well doesn't translate to warmth, so at Dongjedang we warm the stomach and establish a digestive rhythm before addressing circulation, helping what you eat turn into warmth that circulates through the whole body.
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