What causes yang deficiency?

Yang deficiency may be caused by improper diet, poor congenital constitution, old age and chronic illness.

1. Improper diet

and poor eating habits, like eating raw and cold products, will cause damage to the spleen and stomach, resulting in excessive loss of yang qi in the spleen and stomach, unable to warm the body, so yang deficiency will occur.

2. Poor congenital constitution

, poor nutrition during pregnancy may affect the growth and development of the fetus, resulting in congenital yang deficiency, poor constitution, so yang deficiency will occur.

3. Old age and chronic illness

with age, the body becomes aging, leading to the gradual depletion of qi and blood, unable to nourish the kidneys, so that yang qi produced by the kidneys decreases, and then develops into yang deficiency.