REST AND RELAXATION
Your body needs time to heal and recover from your stressful situations. You need to take a break from the stressful lifestyle and do something, or even physically do nothing, that will help you recoup. Doing so will allow the negative stress chemicals to burn off, the body to produce more hormones for future stressful situations, and helps your immune system get back up and working like it should.
Rest and relaxation does not always mean you have to go on an expensive vacation at a resort (to me that can be a negative stressor); instead, what you do can be simple and easy. The important thing is Read More
Before I give you some sound advice on how to logically combat the ills of stress let me preface with what not to do:
Slapping a Bandage On It
In modern times and in the Western culture, the answer to everything is some kind of pharmaceutical or prescription – a man-made, unnatural concoction of chemicals meant to alter the body. The fact is doctors “diagnose” illness and disease and only “treat” symptoms, they don’t cure or heal the real issue. Symptoms are the body’s way of telling you on the outside that something is seriously wrong inside. The best solution in all cases is to take care of your entire self by eating, exercising, and addressing deficiencies. Once the whole body has an opportunity to heal and has the proper, natural nutrients it needs, the symptoms go away naturally. It’s called the immune system and it is an amazing thing.
Some of these “bandages” I talk about include legal drugs, some people resort to caffeine such as Read More
The stress you deal with day in and day out leads to the sustained stress level and this level is very detrimental and unnatural to your health and well-being. This is the “silent killer”. It does several things to you. At the chemical level, you are constantly secreting chemicals that your body is not used to having over a long period of time. In a fight or flight situation, you are supposed to use these chemicals up. Constant exposure and then depletion of these chemicals are what make stress deadly.
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Stress Article #1
On a daily basis, we all deal with stress. Life gets more stressful as time goes by and we get older. The dangerous fact is that stress is a sly killer. Our initial reaction to stress is natural, but our continual exposure and reaction to stress is not natural and wears down our systems to the point that your immune system cannot fend off illness and disease, you are fatigued, and your concentration and memory tend to suffer. Some people expose themselves to stress so much that they have literal breakdowns that lead to their deaths.
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You can’t go anywhere without hearing about green tea and its incredible properties and the claims of health benefits. One of the derivatives of green tea is a potent amino acid called Theanine or L-Theanine. L-Theanine was introduced from Japan many years ago and has been widely studied for its ability to supercharge the brain.
L-Theanine Effects on the Brain
Theanine is able to enter the brain and help in increasing the levels of dopamine and serotonin (effect of serotonin still debated) partially through the formation of Read More
