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Stress: Critical Health & Wellbeing

12/26/2017

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The CDC has stated that by 2020, stress will be one of the most critical health issues for Americans.

While stress is a part of life, if it’s excessive and we don’t take proper steps to handle it in a healthy way, we can experience devastating effects on our health.

First, it’s very important to understand what happens in the body when it encounters too much stress.

The adrenal glands are the body’s emergency system. When the body is under chronic stress, the adrenals will send out cortisol into the bloodstream. Over time, this chronic cortisol output will weaken the endocrine system, liver, digestive system, the brain, slow down your thyroid, etc.

Here are some other things stress does to the body:

  1. Stress elevates cortisol production which depresses the immune system. The adrenals are your emergency organs. When they fire, your body goes into fight or flight mode. The body has to make a decision – do I want to save my life right now or fight infection. The body will choose to save your life. This is often a root cause of autoimmune disease.
  2. Chronic stress overworks the adrenal glands which can lead to low DHEA, low progesterone, abnormal estrogen/progesterone ratios, pituitary and thyroid imbalances.
  3. Elevated cortisol decreases your liver’s ability to detox excess hormones out of the body which can lead to estrogen dominance, PMS and menopausal symptoms.
  4. Stress elevates cortisol and decreases T3 production. This has a negative effect on thyroid health.
  5. Elevated cortisol tells the body to stop using fat as energy which can lead to hypothyroidism and weight gain around the waist.
  6. Elevated cortisol decrease the amount of stomach acid produced in the stomach. When this happens the body can’t use the nutrients in your food.
  7. Elevated cortisol lowers white blood cell production making it harder for your immune system to fight.
  8. Chronic stress increases insulin output and can cause insulin resistance or even type II diabetes.

The good news is that essential oils can reduce stress almost immediately when inhaled or diffused!

Why is this? Because your sense of smell is directly connected to your emotional brain, so when you smell an essential oil it can immediately effect how you feel and reduce stress levels dramatically!

Pretty incredible.

~Originally from 
Deliciously Organic 


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