The stress response is designed to protect and preserve life. But too much stress of anything can kill you! Stress impedes delivery of bio-information. The body will pick the most efficient route to "deliver" information, but if there is an impedance/blockage it will pick an alternative route and stay there unless told the impedance is clear. In one stress event 14,000 chemicals and 30 hormones are released into the bloodstream. We can clear some chemicals with one deep breath, but some hormones stay for 30 - 60 days. All around the cycle, chronic stress can deplete available resources and the cycle starts all over if those chemicals don't clear. Stress impacts in order:
DESCRIPTIONS
Prostaglandins: released during an inflammatory response. But if there's chronic stress, they become less able to help as anti-inflammatories.
Serotonin: Key to coherence and cellular communication. It puts every cell in body on same page (coherence): "we're under stress now, so listen up". It takes 60 days to rest from a high-stress event, so if there is too much or long-term stress, the well goes dry and cells can't communicate. 70% is in the bowel, so Prozac and other anti-depressants can lead to constipation.
Adrenal Glands: the "fight-flight" or "conserve & withdraw" impulse, so chronic stress can lead to a "freeze in the lights" response. Top hormone is cortisol—we can't live without it. If overused, then not it's available to fight allergies. This is why they use cortisol in autoimmune shots, but they give a lifetime supply in one shot!!! Impacts all organs and systems. Too much cortisol damages the brain, especially the hippocampus. The release of epinephrine/norepinephrine helps to fight enemies and allergens also. But the chronic release of these damages the immune system and reduces one's ability to fight infection and cancer. Chronic elevated levels of these hormones impact other organs and body systems as well.
Thyroid is stimulated by these hormones and releases its own, speeding up metabolism and helps to burn fuel and provide energy. But chronic stimulation leads to deficiency that contributes to fatigue, depression, hair loss and weight gain.
ANS. Autonomic Nervous System (parasympathetic calms & sympathetic speeds us up): the driver for alkaline/ash minerals—if not balanced, we burn up key minerals. Affects heart rate, endocrine, metabolism, etc. In stress cycle, it's like pushing the gas and brake simultaneously, but will use a lot of resources and go nowhere.
Liver: Affects cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, pleurisy, blood sugar levels: in battle—stress—they all go thick, because we don't want to bleed to death. Blood sugar levels increase to provide more energy.
Pancreas: sugar imbalance contributes to hypoglycemia, pancreatic exhaustion. When glyco-nutritionals go out of whack, we get diabetes.
OTHER ORGANS & SYSTEMS
Kidneys & Bladder: bodily fluid imbalance.
Detox Pathways congested lymphatics; excess load jettisoned through bowel/bladder.
Hypothalamus-Pineal-Pituitary: master glands for hormones.
Sex Hormones: impacts sex drive, generally lowers.
Stomach & Intestines: Shutdown of entire digestive tract, constipation/diarrhea, IBS.
Skin: itching in same spot (related to meridians), sweats more, clamminess—can create a chronic condition.
Spleen: blood filter.
Spinal Chord-Ganglion: nerve transmission.
Senses-Awareness-Instincts: Normal stress response heightens awareness and stimulates the senses. Chronic stress response creates burn out, inefficiency and loss of senses. We're the only species with osteoporosis because we have a diminished sense of smell to know what we need. Taste: 8 have been reduced to 2 in American diet: salt & sweet, the most extreme on the alkaline-acid scale.
Thymus: immune system response lowered.
