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If Your Heart Still Races Even After You Quit Coffee

Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin
의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

If the palpitations remain even after you've quit coffee, the cause may not be caffeine but your autonomic nervous system.

Caffeine can "trigger" palpitations, but if your sympathetic nervous system is already tilted toward tension, the palpitations continue even after you stop caffeine. An oversensitive regulator reacts strongly even to small stimuli.

  • The palpitations remain even after you cut back on caffeine and stimulants
  • They get worse with tension, fatigue, or at night

In cases like this, rather than blaming caffeine alone, we need to also look in the direction of calming down the oversensitive autonomic nervous system itself.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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