The Many Faces of Stress | Part 1

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The Many Faces of Stress | Part 1

By Dr. Justin Marchegiani

When I say we’re going to talk about stress today, you are probably thinking of emotional or mental stress. Struggling to pay the bills, difficulty in your relationship and the death of a loved one are all very real examples of emotional and mental types of stress. These stressors definitely take a toll on you, and it is my goal to make sure you are equipped with as many tools as possible to turn stress into speed bump rather than a roadblock.

However, there are other hidden stressors that we don’t talk much about, ones that we will be focusing on today: physiological stressors.

 

Stress can be simplified into three categories:

Triad of Health

You can see that stress is more than just mental/emotional, it can also be physical/structural (like a broken bone), and physiological- nutritional/biochemical (which we will be focusing on today).

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Physiological Stress:  This type of stress commonly comes from 3 areas.

  1.  Food: Nutrient density, blood sugar stability, and food allergens.

Remember: The human brain is roughly 60% fat!  I find many people today are fat-phobic and are worried about fat causing heart disease.  Because of this misinformation, many patients are deficient in important building blocks and are walking around with brains that aren’t functioning optimally.

Thankfully we now have tests that can actually predict up to a decade in advance if this is happening to you, which gives us the time to make the changes to help reverse these conditions from progressing.  Removing all grains is a good start, and if anyone interested in running these new state of the art lab tests, please contact the clinic.

  1.  Toxins:  Heavy metals, pesticides, xenoestrogens, molds, radiation etc.

The environmental exposure to these xenoestrogens throws our body into a state of estrogen dominance, which makes it easy to develop weight gain, hormonal imbalances, and PMS to name just a few.

  1.  Infections:  Parasites, fungus, bacteria and viruses.

Great Ways to Improve Recovery and Decrease Stress:

Great Ways To Improve Recovery and Decrease Stress

Stay tuned for the next post in this series on stress, which will focus on the “Physical/Structural” side of the stress triangle.

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