Andrew Huberman· PhD
Now, the form of acupuncture that they explored was one that's commonly in use called electroacupuncture. So, what Qiufu Ma's lab found was that if electroacupuncture is provided to the abdomen, to the stomach area, it creates activation of what are called the sympathetic ganglia, and the activation of these neurons involves noradrenaline and something called NPY, neuropeptide Y. The long and short of it is that stimulating the abdomen with electroacupuncture was either anti-inflammatory or it could cause inflammation. It could actually exacerbate inflammation, depending on whether or not it was of low or high intensity.