After 14 years in practice and thousands of acupuncture treatments, I've noticed a few mistakes that get in the way of the healing my patients are hoping for.

Consider this your insider's guide, so that you can get the most out of each and every acupuncture treatment.

I get this question a lot: "What's the difference between your acupuncture facial and microneedling — and which one should I try?" It's a great question, and the honest answer is: it depends on what your skin is asking for. Both treatments work entirely with your body's own natural healing intelligence — no fillers, no chemicals. Just your skin, doing what it was designed to do, with a little expert guidance. Read on to learn more.

Acupuncture works. People seek it out for chronic pain, migraines, anxiety, insomnia, fertility, and more, and the outcomes and research consistently support its effectiveness. But for decades, one question has lingered: how does it work? What is actually happening in the body when a needle is placed at a precise point along a meridian? A landmark article published this month in The New York Times Magazine finally holds the answer.