Q No matter how well I eat, I can't gain weight. Why do I have such a thin constitution?
A Often you don't absorb as much as you eat, or your stomach is weak so your meal portions themselves are small. It's not simply that you eat little, but that the digestion, absorption, and metabolism rhythm is disrupted, so constitutional improvement is needed.
Detailed Answer
A thin constitution is not simply a matter of insufficient food intake. It is common that the stomach is weak so you can't eat much at once, or even when you eat, you don't absorb enough nutrients, so weight and muscle mass don't increase. It also becomes fixed when basal metabolism is fast and energy consumption is high from stress and lack of sleep.
Oriental Medicine Clinic Perspective
At our clinic, we raise weakened stomach function and absorption and reinforce the spleen-stomach (脳胃) energy so that what you eat accumulates in the body. In particular, those of the Soeumin (소음인) constitution tend to have inherently weak stomachs, making thinness easily fixed, so reinforcement prescriptions tailored to the constitution are effective.
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