Stress

Struggling with STRESS for long periods can drain you physically, emotionally, and mentally where you feel terrible much of the time and your body has lost the ability to regulate itself in a normal healthy way.

Is it possible to worry yourself sick? According to the Mayo Clinic, it is. Your body has a hard-wired self-defense system called  the sympathetic nervous system, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. The response is supposed to kick in when you encounter an immediate physical threat and turn off when the threat passes. However, your body can get stuck in fight-or flight-mode because of stress or chronic pain and this can cause health problems; hypertension, sick all the time, anxious, can't sleep, digestive troubles.

A relaxation response  will follow the fight-or-flight response, if your body is handling stress properly. This occurs due to a release of countering hormones. During the relaxation response of the  parasympathetic nervous system (Resting, Digesting, Sleeping functions), your body shifts back into equilibrium. It allows your heart rate and blood pressure to return to normal and enables activities such as digestion and sleep to resume to normal.

Prolonged stress puts your body in a continuous state readiness for physical action. When your body has no time to re-establish equilibrium, it becomes overworked and your immune system weakens, making you susceptible to sickness. Many essential bodily processes are disrupted leaving people with health problems. Some effects include:

FATIGUE / DEPRESSION / ANXIETY / HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

BAD SLEEP / POOR DIGESTION / WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM-CHRONIC INFECTIONS

ADAPT

Licorice Root, Eleuthero Root, Fresh Ashwagandha Root, GreenTea Leaf Extract

Adapt is a stress axis (adrenals, pituitary and hypothalamus) tonic, which means it is counteracts the effects of too much stress. Conditions commonly helped include: fatigue, tiredness, depression, exhaustion, brain fog, burned out, crabby, overwhelmed, and weak immune system (prevents sickness and reduces sick time).

Dosage: 60-90 drops per day in water. 

JOYFUL

Valerian Root, Fresh St. Johns Wort, Kava Root, Passion Flower Aerial Part

Soothes the mind and soul in times of increased stress. Decreases anxiety and depression associated with stress. Calms compulsive thinking and panic attacks. Increases parasympathetic function (resting, digesting, relaxing). Better deeper REM sleep. Counteracts crabby, burnt out feelings.  Elevates mood and general happy feelings (Limbic brain tonic).

Dosage: 60-90 drops per day in water.

Chiropractic Adjustments

Each chiropractic adjustment decreases the Fight or Flight response and stimulates the Resting, Digesting, Sleep Response (parasympathetic nervous system). Upregulates the Central Nervous System and balances autonomic response to stress.

Common stress related problems we see get better daily include; sleeping better, a general feeling of relaxation, heartburn and gastric reflux clearing, blood pressure lowering, heart arrhythmia lessening, acute and chronic infections clearing quickly, lessening of allergy response/symptoms, and bowel and bladder dysfunctions improving.