Emotional Stress: How Chronic Emotional Stress Can Ruin Your Health

 

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What's the most powerful step you can take to dramatically improve your health?

My answer is this:
Learn how to effectively manage emotional stress

All of my clinical and personal experiences over the years have me convinced that no other factor has more influence over your health. 

Not diet, not exercise, not even how much you sleep. 

Why is emotional stress is one of the most significant causes of all chronic health challenges? 

Because your body cannot defend itself against the damage that emotional stress quietly creates over time. Your body pays a heavy physiological price for every moment that you feel anxious, tense, frustrated, and angry. 

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Estrogen Dominance: Is It Affecting Your Health?

 

'When researchers from l'Universite de Montreal recently tested the waters of the St. Lawrence River downstream of Montreal, they discovered levels of estrogen 90 times the normal rate. 

These estrogens were both the natural type (estradiol) occurring in all women and men, and synthetic estrogens, like the ones found in some contraceptive medications and medications used in hormone replacement therapy.

Although the original reason for the research study was to determine the cause of changes in the reproductive organs of fish, there are implications for humans as well.'

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Cortisol is the Stress Hormone

 

 'All the stress and pollution along with poor diet choices are causing people to experience hormonal imbalance and decline at an earlier age than ever. Hormonal imbalance is now showing up in men and women in their late 20’s. 

Many people in their 30’s are in unrecognized hormonal imbalance that saps their energy, causes weight gain, and makes their thinking foggy, leaving them in a state where they are unable to act in their own best interests.

Americans are experiencing record levels of depression and sleeplessness. Their conventional physicians answer their symptoms with the prescription pad, adding even more chemicals to the pile without addressing the causes of these symptoms.' 

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How To Restore Magnesium In 3 Steps

 

'I am often asked, “So how much Magnesium do I need to take daily?”

It’s a great question.  And like most great questions, the answer is, “It depends.”

There are actually 3 points to consider:

1) Increased S*T*R*E*S*S = Increased MBR

First, please know that stress consumes Magnesium (Mg) — it’s how we’re wired as a species.  The more “Stress!” you are under, the more Magnesium your body burns.

I call this the “Magnesium Burn Rate”, or MBR.  It’s the metabolic price we pay for all that pressure & tension we feel.'

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Crying Can Help Relieve Stress, But for Optimal Health You Need Better Stress-Relieving Tools

'The connections between stress and physical health are undeniable. Studies have found links between acute and/or chronic stress and a wide variety of health issues, including:

Lowered immune system function
Heightened inflammatory response
Increased blood pressure and cholesterol levels
Altered brain chemistry, blood sugar levels and hormonal balance
Increased risk of cancer and increased tumor growth1

The video above brings up another biological reaction associated with stress: crying.2 Interestingly, tears that are shed due to an emotional response, such as sadness or extreme happiness, contain a high concentration of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) — a chemical linked to stress.' 

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Mindfulness from Meditation Associated With Lower Stress Hormone

'Focusing on the present rather than letting the mind drift may help to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, suggests new research from the Shamatha Project at the University of California, Davis.

The ability to focus mental resources on immediate experience is an aspect of mindfulness, which can be improved by meditation training.

"This is the first study to show a direct relation between resting cortisol and scores on any type of mindfulness scale," said Tonya Jacobs, a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and first author of a paper describing the work, published this week in the journal Health Psychology.'

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How Stress Affects Your Heart and Gut Health

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By Dr. Mercola

'As much as you may try to ignore it, you cannot separate your wellness from your emotions. Every feeling you have affects some part of your body, and stress can wreak havoc on your physical health even if you’re doing everything else “right.”

The classic definition of stress is “any real or imagined threat, and your body’s response to it.” Celebrations and tragedies alike can cause a stress response in your body. 

All of your feelings, positive or negative, create physiological changes. Your skin, heart rate, digestion, joints, muscle energy levels, the hair on your head, and countless cells and systems you don't even know about change with every emotion. 

Stress plays a major role in your immune system, and can impact your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, brain chemistry, blood sugar levels, and hormonal balance. It can even “break” your heart, and is increasingly being viewed as a cardiovascular risk marker.'

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Study finds: Reactions to stress could affect health 10 years later

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'It's not just the stress, but how you react to it, that could have an impact on your health down the road, according to a new study from Pennsylvania State University researchers.

Published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine, researchers found in the study that people who were more stressed out and anxious about the stresses of everyday life were more likely to have chronic health conditions (such as heart problems, or arthritis) 10 years later, compared with people who viewed things with a more relaxed lens.'

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How You Can Have High Blood Sugar Without Carbs

'High blood sugar is bad. Carbohydrates raise blood sugar. Therefore carbohydrates are bad. The theory is simple, and yet incredibly flawed.

The truth is, you can have chronically high blood sugar even while religiously avoiding every starch and sugar in sight. Low-carb forums are littered with posts asking a very relevant question:

Why is my blood sugar so high when I'm not eating any carbs?

The answer is simple, yet often overlooked.'



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Balance Between Work and Rest

'Throughout history mankind has had to work and struggle against nature in order to survive. In doing so, however, one must work within the limits of his or her tolerance and must rest to release tension caused by work. This is known as striking a proper balance between work and rest.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) insists that this balance has great beneficial effects on health. Moderate work and rest is advocated rather than excessive hard work and too much rest. Healthcare experts through the ages have maintained that imbalance between work and rest is a great taboo. Imbalance between work and rest is harmful to health in several ways. Internal injuries caused by overstrain may involve not only the physical and mental types but stress that is due to sexual intercourse. Injuries caused by too much leisure will involve either mind or body or a combination of the two.'


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Soursop Fruit 100 Fold Stronger At Killing Cancer Than Chemotherapy

'Besides being a cancer remedy, graviola is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent for both bacterial and fungal infections, is effective against internal parasites and worms, lowers high blood pressure and is used for depression, stress and nervous disorders.

Deep within the Amazon Rainforest, this tree grows wild and could literally revolutionize what you, your doctor, and the rest of the world thinks about cancer treatment and chances of survival.

Research shows that with extracts from this miraculous tree it now may be possible to:'

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Tinnitus: What causes it and what can be done … naturally?

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'Tinnitus is one of those modern day maladies that has gone totally epidemic, and yet very few even know they suffer from it.


Why? Because many people have had this condition from such a young age that they accept it as perfectly normal. For others, the symptoms manifest just enough below the radar, so that it’s never ‘seen’ and always stays below a certain threshold of conscious awareness.




In any case, because of the numerous physical causes, environmental co-factors and unconscious emotional contributors of this health condition, we can say that throughout stressful Western society, having tinnitus has become the new normal.'


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Endtime Madness: A Condition To Be ‘Reckoned’ With

 

'How do you spell S T R E S S? How we deal with this little reality of life in 2012 and beyond will dictate, to a great extent, how far we stay away from even a hint of Endtime Madness. For those completely uninitiated in this type of discussion, please be aware that even the best of us can be caught unaware when we least expect it even after we have shined the light of awareness on it.

Please do be aware that we are using this label of “Endtime Madness” a little more loosely than usual in order to sensitize every reader to a dynamic which is occurring under the radar more and more every single day. Is it a bit melodramatic? Perhaps for those who live in a cocoon. 

 Does it have a definite set of symptoms and possible causes which might be listed in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? Well, “NO”, not quite yet … and it may never make it to that level of acceptance or scrutiny for reasons that are best described in the following essay:'

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