Q Swamped with work, I often skip meals and snack on sweets instead. Is diet related to burnout?
A Skipping meals and relying on sweets causes blood sugar swings that leave you even more exhausted and emotionally volatile. Simply eating protein and vegetables at regular times can change the foundation for recovering from exhaustion.
Detailed Answer
In a state of burnout, you may not even have the capacity to eat properly, so meals get skipped or replaced with sugar. But this causes blood sugar to spike and crash, increasing fatigue and irritability, and when nutritional deficiency compounds it, exhaustion deepens further. Regular meals and adequate hydration are the basics of recovery.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
In Korean medicine, the digestive system is the key organ that extracts energy from food. If digestive and absorptive strength is weak, even eating well doesn't translate into energy - so at Dongjedang, before replenishing overall energy, we first restore the disrupted digestive rhythm so that what you eat actually becomes strength.
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