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How Chronic Stress Disrupts Cortisol, Immunity & Energy And How to Restore Balance Naturally

Stress is often thought of as something that comes purely from a busy lifestyle, emotional pressure, or mental overload. While these are common triggers, stress on the body is far broader than emotional strain alone. The nervous system responds to many different challenges as stress, including psychological trauma, unresolved emotional experiences, acute or chronic infections, inflammation, blood sugar instability, poor sleep, over exercising, nutritional deficiencies, environmental exposures...

Mental Health Nervous System Stress Management

Anxiety & stress: Natural solutions to support a calmer mind

Stress and anxiety are part of life, but when they become constant, they can steal your peace, disrupt sleep, and dysregulate our hormones. Whether it’s exam pressure, work deadlines, or emotional ups and downs, finding ways to restore balance is essential for your health and happiness. Why stress feels overwhelming Stress triggers the body’s “fight or flight” response, releasing hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. In short bursts, this helps us cope. But when stress lingers, due to pain, loss...

Immune Health Mental Health Allergies

Seasonal Allergies and Mood

Inevitably, as spring stimulates the release of plant and mould antigens/allergens, people who are immunologically sensitive to this enhanced challenge display fairly consistent symptoms including itchy, watery eyes; tickly throat; and stuffy, runny nose. Fatigue is also a common response as immune activation is an energy-dependent process, and the related disturbed sleep patterns prevent suitable recovery. Mood and affect A recent series of experiments now also indicates that there is a mood, or...

Essential Fatty Acids Mental Health Weight management

Food As Medicine

An article in Nature Medicine out in October 2022 sets out some of the developing understanding of using food as medicine[1]. Whilst for those practitioners already immersed in this strategic use it seems obvious, it is important to remember that many practitioners are not. In turn, many people and rather depressingly most government ministers are comfortable with the benign approach to food as energy/profit only. The authors of this paper identify two important areas (in their opinion) that need...

Mental Health Nervous System Stress Management

Anxiety and Depression is a ‘Thing’

Reading the press, listening to the radio, or sourcing information from journals or other sources such as social media, it is hard to miss the changes in emotional strength that are being reported on. However one chooses to place the rising rate of emotional dysfunction, there is an expanded need being met by a diminished process of support. Friendships, family and professionals are all stretched and cannot, it seems, easily meet the growing need. Research shows that: In any given week in England...

Immune Health Mental Health Lifestyle Medicine

Happiness – Denied by Distraction – A Solution.

The state of ‘being’, sought by all and yet when obtained, is generally all too temporary, is that of ‘happiness’. How are you in its pursuit and attainment? In the 2020 World Happiness Report the authors note that in the face of a pandemic where the social fabric is not strong enough to support co-operative action on the required scale, then fear, disappointment and anger add to the happiness costs of a disaster. There are few people that have not experienced these costs over the last few months...

How Chronic Stress Disrupts Cortisol, Immunity & Energy And How to Restore Balance Naturally

Anxiety & stress: Natural solutions to support a calmer mind

Seasonal Allergies and Mood

Food As Medicine

Anxiety and Depression is a ‘Thing’

Happiness – Denied by Distraction – A Solution.

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