Welcome back to another episode of the Estée La Land show. I'm your host, Estée La Land,

and today we'll be delving into the world of five-element acupuncture. What is it? How does it work?

Let's talk about it. I couldn't think of anyone better to discuss this subject with than my own acupuncturist,

Johnny Childs. You can find him on Instagram. Go give him a follow at

Johnny Child's acupuncturist. And he operates out of kite clinic here in London on Wimpole Street.

And one last thing before we get started, I don't care what Johnny says, I do not smell rotten.

Hello, Johnny. Hi, Estée. How are you? I see that you're in your, would you

call it an office? Is that what you call it? I am in my clinic on Wimpole streets, yes.

Clinic, yes. Office slash clinic slash where I live. I'm here like 12 hours a day. I thought this podcast would be interesting

for people because I feel like there are a lot of misconceptions and ideas around acupuncture.

And it's kind of one of those things that when you're into it, you love it and you sing its praises all

the time. But if you've never tried it or you don't know anyone that's tried it, you love it and you sing its praises all the time. But if you've never

tried it or you don't know anyone that's tried it, you kind of have no idea what it is and you

also maybe think it's like not even a real thing. So first of all, what even is acupuncture and how

many types are there? Okay, so this is five elements acupuncture. So this version, it's considered to be one of the

oldest forms of acupuncture. The reason why it's called five elements acupuncture is that it's based

on the natural laws of nature that have existed for thousands and thousands of years and still

exist obviously today. When we look at the workings of nature outside, how does

it operate in a human being on the inside? So it's kind of to recognize that

human beings are part of nature. You know, we're not separate to it. So we're not human beings kind of running around in nature.

So if you take the five elements, and so if you look at those in nature,

and then I look at you, or my patients or whoever,

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