Stress is characterized by any change or condition that upsets the body's equilibrium. This can be a physical, emotional and/or a mental response.
Dr. Hans Selye postulated the General Adaptation Syndrome (3 stages the body goes through in order to adapt to stress):
- • Alarm stage- acute initial response
- • Resistance stage- attempt to adapt to repetitive stress
- • Exhaustion stage- exceeded the body's coping mechanisms, resulting in physical, emotional and mental health problems and potentially chronic illness.
Physiological Consequences of Stress:
- • Fight or Flight response:
- • Increased heart rate, blood pressure and respiration
- • Increased sugar in the blood
- • Thickening of the blood
- • Prioritizing of blood supply to peripheral muscles to motor and basic-functions regions in the brain; decreased blood supply to digestive system and higher order brain regions
- • Secretion of adrenaline and other stress hormones
- • Secretion of endorphins
- • Results of cardiovascular changes
- • Increased oxidation and waste products
- • Decreased blood mobility
- • Results of neurological/ hormonal changes
- • Over-sensitized hippocampus and amygdala
- • Dependence on hormonal stimulation
- • Depressed immune response
Therapeutic Considerations:
- • Decrease sympathetic nervous system activity
- • Restore heart rate and blood pressure to normal levels
- • Increase blood mobility
- • Blunt hormonal/ adrenal response
- • Relax muscles and digestive system
- • Decrease extraneous mental activity
- • Improve Immune activity
Nutritional Supplements for Stress and Mood Balancing:
EleCore™ Stress & Mood is an effective and unique product. Its primary active ingredient is L-theanine. It works by stimulating alpha brain waves. It is an amino acid extracted from green tea leaves. It is all natural, non-addictive and does not cause drowsiness.
EleCore Benefits:
- • Promotes healthy, pleasant relaxation
- • Helps soothe and relax the digestive system
- • Helps reduce nervous irritability
- • Helps restore mental alertness and wakefulness when fatigued or drowsy
- • Helps maintain healthy microbial environment in the mouth and ears
- • Relaxes without compromising alertness
- • Stimulates alpha brain waves
- • Taking L-theanine before bed has been shown to help improve the quality of sleep
- • In 1999 the University of Shizuoka, Japan found that L-theanine helps improve learning performance, mental clarity and concentration
- • Helps diminish normal symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome (keep in mind that this product is just as suitable for men as women)
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