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“An individual who is prone to anger is about three times more likely to suffer a heart attack or sudden cardiac death as someone who is least prone to anger.” Williams et al, Note get mad but laugh about it

“Higher levels of homocysteine are associated with feelings of aggression and rage in both men and women.” Stoney et al

“Violent behavior in young men appears to be linked to an imbalance in the relationship of copper and zinc.”  William Walsh, Ph.D.

“The first step towards redressing some of the ills of civilized life—from depression to road rage, from cavities to osteoporosis—would be to get more light, inside or outside. Vitamin D adds sunlight to life from childhood through the golden years.” Krispin Sullivan, CN

“Whether in the form of sunlight or dietary vitamin D from food and fish oils, optimal levels of the sunshine vitamin allow your body and mind to thrive, even during periods of stress.” Krispin Sullivan, CN

“Insulin, blood sugar, and cortisone all cause increased secretion of DHEA into urine. Prolonged stress, which may raise insulin, blood sugar and cortisol, eventually leads to low DHEA blood levels.”  Doctor Norman Shealy

“The blood level of cholesterol usually remains normal, (that is, below 200 units) except when total stress produces blocks to the usual metabolic pathways in which cholesterol is used to make various healthy homeostatic (balancing) hormones. In general, under stress, testosterone, estrogen, and even thyroid hormones decrease while cholesterol increases.” Doctor Norman Shealy

“DHEA is a major marker for age and health. Its major effect in a coping person is anti-stress, meaning that the increased cortisone produced by stress is subsequently normally brought back down to baseline by a rise in DHEA.” Doctor Norman Shealy

“Regular exercise may be the most powerful natural antidepressant available.” Murray & Pizzorno

“Much of the mood-elevating effect of exercise may be attributed to the elevation of mood-elevating endorphins by exercise.” Carr et al

“Decreases in DHEA levels has been linked to a number of chronic and degenerative diseases including cancer, coronary artery disease, depression, stress disorders and neurological dysfunctioning.” Straub et al

“The single most important step you can take to improve your aging mind is to reduce your cortisol levels by lowering your stress.”  Doctor Nan Fuchs PhD

“Simply eliminating coffee can often result in complete relief from the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks. This recommendation may seem too simple to be valid but substantial clinical evidence indicates that in many cases it is all that is necessary.” Murray & Pizzorno, Note this is sure a good place to start in any case

”The caffeine in your morning coffee is confirmed to put you in a state of sustained stress, affecting both blood pressure and heart rate all through the day.” Duke University

"Reducing cholesterol in the population on a large scale could lead to a general shift to more violent patterns of behavior. Most of this increased violence would not result in death but in more aggression at work and in the family, more child abuse, more wife-beating and generally more unhappiness." Professor David Horrobin Oxford

“Ashwagandha counters some of the oxidative damage generated by nervous tension. Ashwagandha has been shown to confer perceptible improvements of promoting a sense of well being and a healthy mental outlook. In a large human clinical trial ashwagandha reduced the hormone cortisol by up to 26% while helping to maintain healthy blood sugar. Study subject reported improvements in energy, sleep and wellbeing as well as diminished fatigue.” Life Extension

“Adrenal fatigue is commonly caused by chronic stress from any source (including emotional, physical, mental, or environmental) that exceeds the body's capacity to adjust appropriately to the demands placed on it by the stress. Adrenal glands can be restored to optimum health naturally by adhering to healthy living principals. Proper rest, together with specific nutritional diets and removal of stressors are key components to adrenal fatigue recovery. The road to adrenal recovery is not a linear or straightforward path because of the complexity of our internal hormonal and stress-regulation system. Most people who suffer from adrenal fatigue also have multiple endocrine imbalances including sub-clinical hypothyroidism, insulin resistance, and estrogen dominance.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

“These four primary things -- exercising, addressing emotional stress, eating right, and getting regular sun exposure -- will make you feel at the top of your game. Whether you want to overcome depression or just want to stay healthy, these are the lifestyle changes that will get you there.”  Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

"Have you ever felt stressed and anxious and then taken a long walk only to feel calm and relaxed afterward? Why did this happen? Because you burned off the stress chemicals adrenaline and cortisol which made you feel anxious." Doctor Mark Hyman

"Now we understand that 95% of all illnesses are either caused by or worsened by stress. What you think can influence how sick or well you are. The mind influences the body." Doctor Mark Hyman

"If you focus on just a few hormones insulin, thyroid, sex hormones, melatonin, growth and cortisol all the rest come into balance." Doctor Mark Hyman

"Relaxing is anti-inflammatory. Stimulating your vagus nerve sends acetylcholine throughout your body, not only relaxing you but also turning down the fires of inflammation."  Doctor Mark Hyman, Note laughing stimulates your vagus nerve

"It appears that obesity is not the only thing controlled by the information in our food. So are stress response, mood, behavior. memory and brain function. That is why a fresh, whole food, organic, real-food diet is the foundation of health."  Doctor Mark Hyman

"Food is powerful medicine. Eating more of certain foods and less of others can substantially boost the bodies ability to fight most illnesses from colds to cancer."   Doctor Keith Block MD

"If you do not eat meat or if you ate trying to increase your fiber intake, if you are under stress or are an athlete it may not be possible to get the needed zinc through your diet." Doctor Anthony Cichoke

"In this study, scientists started by restraining a group of mice. Physical restraint of an animal induces stress. The stress promotes lipid peroxidation in their liver. Lipid peroxidation is biochemical damage to cells. After 18 hours of restraint, the researchers checked their blood levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Higher levels of ALT indicate serious liver damage. All of the mice had ALT levels indicative of liver damage. That's not all. The stress reduced the ability of their blood to neutralize toxic free radicals. Then the researchers fed the animals bilberry extract. The extract had incredible results. It improved their oxidative stress. And they had smaller rises in ALT than those mice that didn't eat bilberry. Moreover, a key chemical marker of damage, malondialdehyde, a byproduct of cellular damage, was significantly lower in the bilberry supplemented groups. Now here's a real pearl. Restraining the animals caused them to have much lower levels of vitamin C (173 mcg per gm) in their tissues compared to non-restrained animals (400 mcg per gm). After they ate the bilberry, their levels rose sharply to 347 and 451 respectively.”   Doctor Robert Rowen MD

"Ginkgo biloba is an amazing plant it contains three powerful flavonoids that help in the fight against stress. Quercetin, kaempferol, and isorhamnetine. Studies have proven it’s a great stress reliever because it helps improve the ratio of cortisol to DHEA."   Doctor  Al Sears MD

"Our stress hormones are made out of cholesterol in the body. Stressful situations increase our blood cholesterol levels because cholesterol is being sent to the adrenal glands for stress hormone production. Apart from that, when we are under stress, a storm of free radicals and other damaging biochemical reactions occur in the blood. So the liver works hard to produce and send out as much cholesterol as possible to deal with the free radical attack.”   Doctor Natasha Campbell-McBride MD

Stress is a VERY important part of your life

"A new study out of Sweden finds that men who let resentment over unfair treatment at work fester inside them had double the risk of heart attack or death by heart disease than those who were unafraid to vent. Researchers also found that men who routinely ignored work- related conflicts had triple the risk of heart attack or coronary death. I didn't need to see the details of this in the online edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health to confirm what most of us have known all along: Holding this stress in can hurt you or even kill you.”   Doctor William Douglass MD

Some stress is required to have a full life but continuous unwarranted stress is a killer. Some stress triggers are external in nature and we can do little about the external; it is the internal response to the external and internal triggers we can control. Nature designed us to be stressed but then to RELAX.

Vitamin C and Stress

"The amount of ascorbic acid which can be taken orally without causing diarrhea when a person is ill sometimes is over ten times the amount he would tolerate if well. This increased bowel tolerance phenomenon serves not only to indicate the amount which should be taken but indicates the unsuspected and astonishing magnitude of the potential use that the body has for ascorbate under stressful conditions."   Doctor Robert Cathcart MD

"There are many well-established functions of vitamin C that help in the handling of stress. When stressed, the higher mammals can augment these functions by this feedback mechanism. For the higher primates, including humans, ascorbate can amount to the MISSING STRESS HORMONE (4)."    Doctor Robert Cathcart MD

In times of severe stress, such as an infection, your body can burn grams of vitamin C per hour. Please make sure you supply it.

Vitamin D and Stress

“Whether in the form of sunlight or dietary vitamin D from food and fish oils, optimal levels of the sunshine vitamin allow your body and mind to thrive, even during periods of stress.” Krispin Sullivan, CN

It is quite likely you may be vitamin D deficient under severe stress. It is easy to cure this possible problem. 1000 IU of vitamin D3/20 pounds of body weight/day will solve this problem.

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This site was last updated on: 16 May 2012 09:51 AM

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