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Last month, we identified cortisol … the hormone your body produces under stress … as the silent destroyer.
This month, we look at what you can do to avoid stress, de-stress, and mitigate some of the effects cortisol has on your mind and body.
Some stress in life is unavoidable and even necessary. From challenge comes growth, but most of us are experiencing way too much stress and paying way too high a price in terms of compromised health and wellbeing. So, what do we do about it?Read More
It makes your blood pressure rise. Makes you crave carbohydrates. Makes your blood sugar rise. Causes you to “burn up” your calming and repair nutrients, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, zinc and magnesium.
It suppresses your immune system, playing a role in the development of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes, while increasing your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It turns damaging free radicals loose in your system. It inhibits the collagen production your connective tissue needs to sustain and rejuvenate itself and causes your cells to age faster. It not only stops the production of new brain cells, it damages your brain at the structural level of your DNA and puts you at higher risk for mental illness.
It compromises your ability to regulate your body’s immune response over time, resulting in chronic inflammation. It cuts off production of the master hormone responsible for growth and repair, DHEA.
All this makes you old before your time and shortens your life. This stuff is trouble.
And those aren’t all the problems it causes.Read More
When I finally get some time, I’m going to __________.
What? What will you do? Fill in the blank.
Okay, may I be blunt?
There are some things that shouldn’t be in that space … things that tell me you’re just asking for trouble. And yet, a large percentage of the population might very well say these very things.
