What is Sweet Change?
It’s a Traditional Chinese Medicine formula, developed by Stephen Andrews, M.S.O.M., L.Ac. He holds a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin, he’s a licensed acupuncturist, and he’s been in practice in Austin, Texas for twenty years. He formulated Sweet Change in his clinic, for his patients, before it ever had a label.
Stephen Andrews formulated Sweet Change and has a financial interest in its sale.
After twenty years, here’s how Stephen reads a sugar craving.
Not as one thing. As five, running at once.
- Sensory. The tongue. First contact, and the layer every taste-blocker works on.
- Digestive. The gut, breaking food down and signaling hunger back up.
- Metabolic. The energy spike when the sugar lands, and the crash a couple of hours later. The crash is what sets up the next craving.
- The habit loop. Stress arrives, sugar answers, and the pattern gets faster at running itself.
- The organ carrying the load. The long-term work happens somewhere, and it isn’t on your tongue.
In Stephen’s experience, work on one layer and the other four rebuild the craving from underneath. Sweet Change was formulated for all five layers at once, in one bottle, by a practitioner who watched one-layer fixes fall short for his patients.
Why so bitter? It’s not by accident.
You learn in grade school the importance of a balanced diet, but just how balanced is the average diet? If you asked most people to describe theirs by flavor, you’d find mostly salty and sweet. Compare that to cuisines eaten around the world and you see far more variety: spicy and pungent, sour, and bitter.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, different tastes and flavors carry different actions. The flavor of a food, spice, or herb is part of what gives it its character. Spicy and pungent disperses and moves, salty softens, sour is astringent, bitter drains and dries, and sweet tonifies and harmonizes. When the flavors are balanced, the body tends to stay in balance too. Lean too hard on one flavor and that balance can drift.
Most of us favor one flavor and get stuck on it like a skipping record. That’s how a habit forms, and how everyday cravings build. Picture a weightlifter who only trained his right arm. Over time you’d see how lopsided he’d become. By living on just a couple of flavors, we pull ourselves out of balance the same way.
Tipping the Scale
So how do you find balance when today’s food is loaded with sugar, salt, and artificial flavor? By adding Sweet Change to your routine, you’re adding the bitter flavor back in, so the balance has a chance to shift. It’s built to help you lean less hard on one flavor, usually sweet or salty, and to leave room for the others again. It’s formulated to mute the taste of sugar, so sweets have less of a pull. Think of it as a simple tool for interrupting an old pattern and opening a window to build a new habit.
The formula is built to support a changing relationship with sugar and everyday food cravings.
Crave the change!
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