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"Instead of pumping out more adrenaline, the adrenal glands respond to chronic stress by secreting more Cortisol. Because chronic stress is ongoing, high Cortisol levels do not subside until the stress is removed or the adrenal glands exhausted. Over time, elevated Cortisol levels can wreak havoc on your body." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"That's short-term, but fibromyalgia and acid excess create chronic stress responses; they're only a fraction of the potency, but they're happening 24/7, year round. This chronic stress response leads to higher Cortisol levels, lower growth hormone levels, elevated pain-causing substance levels, and blunting of the serotonin system. In other words, your serotonin production is reduced, so it doesn't respond to normal signals to increase or decrease. Many symptoms of fibromyalgia can be attributed to vitamin D deficiency, inadequate omega-3 fats, and dietary acidosis." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Psychological counseling and behavior modification also have a role in the treatment of chronic stress. Lifestyle modifications: chronic stress depletes B-complex vitamins and magnesium in the body, so it is advised that you replace these through supplements during periods of stress. A practitioner who can measure adrenal hormones may also be helpful in evaluating the adrenal depletion that can occur with unremitting chronic stress. Adequate sleep and regular meals with little sugar or processed foods are mandatory during periods of stress to avoid physical side-effects." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"That's short-term, but fibromyalgia and acid excess create chronic stress responses; they're only a fraction of the potency, but they're happening 24/7, year round. This chronic stress response leads to higher Cortisol levels, lower growth hormone levels, elevated pain-causing substance levels, and blunting of the serotonin system. In other words, your serotonin production is reduced, so it doesn't respond to normal signals to increase or decrease. Many symptoms of fibromyalgia can be attributed to vitamin D deficiency, inadequate omega-3 fats, and dietary acidosis." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"For many people, chronic stress has become "natural," and they don't even admit it's a problem. Lisa, for example, is a forty-one-year-old single working mother of two teenagers who has type 2 diabetes. Her children participate in after-school sporting events, which she often tries to attend after work, and she typically brings work home with her as well. Since her mother was diagnosed with cancer last year, she has spent much of her spare time helping with her care in a nearby town." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"To prevent accelerated brain aging and cognitive dysfunction, it is critical to reduce the negative physiological consequences brought about by chronic stress. For this we turn to a practice that is thousands of years old and the subject of many modern scientific research studies: meditation. Besides the awake state, the sleep state and the dream state, there is the fourth state: the transcendent or meditative. In the past three decades, numerous studies have been completed by researchers exploring the far-reaching effects of transcendental meditation, a simple mental technique. . . ." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"There may be other underlying physiological causes that manifest as the symptoms of brain aging, including: hypothyroidism, vascular disease, vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies, depression, fatigue, grief, dehydration, vision or hearing loss, alcohol use, complications from diabetes, from epilepsy, and from medications, or chronic stress. These alternative causes—which clinicians call "differential diagnoses"—can often be treated by your physician, and may reverse apparent symptoms of brain aging before you need to go through the trouble of making an appointment to see a specialist." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Research has shown that chronic stress increases production of the hormone Cortisol, which in some animal studies has been shown to accelerate cell death in the frontal lobes, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and especially the hippocampus, the neurons of which carry many receptors for Cortisol.47 These damages can lead to decrements in memory and learning." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Obviously, Cortisol is a naturally occurring hormone in our bodies, and biological responses to stress may help us cope with emergencies and situations in our daily lives that demand our focus, but over days, weeks, and years, chronic stress responses can prevent us from learning new information (although the biological effects of stress and its impact on memory are not fully understood). In a small clinical trial published in August 2006, Harvard University researchers assigned eight people aged sixty-five to eighty to meditate and do other relaxation exercises for twenty minutes a day." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "As we seek to alleviate our own life stressors we should remember that it is also our responsibility to address the inequalities in our world that place others under chronic stress. Scientists are heralding the discovery of "mirror neurons," a new class of brain cells that may track the emotional flow, movement, and intentions of the person we are with, and induce this perceived state in our own brain by activating it in the same areas that are active in the other person.'" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The result of this excessive sales pitch is that the myope, who could restore his normal refractive state quite easily at this threshold level through a functional rehabilitation program (learning the rules of sight hygiene, lessening the conditions of chronic stress, wearing positive lenses that could, rightly, be called "leisure" and "part-time glasses," or through short treatment with myopic defocus) is condemned to wearing "correcting" negative lenses whose dioptric power must be increased from time to time. ?" - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"When we have chronic stress, our blood supply travels to our extremities. This is because we have an evolutionary fight or flight response. This is to help us run when we are fearful of impending danger. Thus, the blood supply travels away from the stomach and impacts our digestion. Our nervous system is tightly connected to our digestion." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"A 2006 study published in Psychosomaf/c Medicine reports that people with high levels of hostility typically have worse insulin resistance when they are experiencing stress, especially high levels of chronic stress. It is possible that stress-reduction methods may help in this context (see chapter 9). How to Prevent or Reverse Insulin Resistance The good news is that there are effective, easy-to-adopt ways to change the course of insulin resistance at the cellular level." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Lisa was in a state of chronic stress, yet it wasn't until a diabetes educator talked with her and pointed it out that she thought about it. "I guess I knew at some level that I was overly stressed, but I was just too busy to even think about it, much less do anything about it." For Lisa, a stress-management program that included daily progressive muscle relaxation practice was a turning point in her life and in how she managed her diabetes. "Within a few weeks of practicing progressive relaxation, I noticed results," she says. " - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Medical research has repeatedly documented the danger of anger, chronic stress, and the negative emotional states associated with depression and social isolation. We have clearly seen the heavy toll that psychological status and emotions take on patients. These are hidden risk factors rarely addressed by doctors. For instance: • Chronic anger contributes to high blood pressure and heart enlargement. Acute situational anger can promote clot formation. • Depression significantly increases the risk of heart disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Magnesium deficiency may be caused by chronic stress, poor diet, or chronic yeast infections. Magnesium is found inside our blood cells and is needed to activate T4 thyroid hormone into T3. To properly test magnesium, you must check the level of magnesium inside the cells. Do this by measuring an RBC (red blood cell) magnesium level. The level should be midrange or above. A simple blood serum test for magnesium will not do, because magnesium is primarily found inside the cells and not in the serum. Checking only the serum level will miss most deficiencies." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "This is how our natural circadian rhythm normally works: high Cortisol in the morning and low Cortisol at night, rising again at the time of waking the next day. With chronic stress, adrenal deficiency, shift work, chronic insomnia, overwork, and age, you can lose your Cortisol control and have low morning levels and high evening or nighttime levels, causing overeating, weight gain, and insomnia. Cortisol curves can be measured by testing saliva levels throughout the day and night." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "If your aldosterone is too high, your blood pressure will be elevated, which is common with chronic stress and is one reason that stress is related to hypertension. When you are chronically stressed, your brain is constantly pumping out ACTH to stimulate your adrenal glands to make stress hormones, particularly adrenaline and Cortisol. Over time only that part of the adrenal gland that makes aldosterone responds to the ACTH. So your aldosterone may rise, but Cortisol and adrenaline may actually fall." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Ginkgo {Ginkgo biloba) is primarily known for its ability to improve blood flow to many organs, but it also helps the brain-adrenal connection (the HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary axis that controls adrenal function). With chronic stress, the HPA is often imbalanced and depleted, and ginkgo can help this. • Astragalus {Astralagus membranaceous) is particularly helpful to support immune function. I often recommend its use in my adrenally challenged patients during flu season to boost their immunity." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"When we have chronic stress our blood supply travels to our extremities. This is because we have an evolutionary fight or flight response. This is to help us run when we are fearful of impending danger. We have no outlet for stress as we cannot ethically or socially attack or run. Thus, the blood supply travels away from the stomach and impacts our digestion. Any worry, stress, shock and anxiety can influence our digestion. Our nervous system is tightly connected to our digestion. For some people any stress manifests in digestive upset." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The Toll of chronic stress on Blood Glucose Stress triggers the fight-or-flight response, an evolutionary adaptation that helped our ancestors to mobilize the stress hormones adrenaline and Cortisol when fighting the wooly mammoth and the cave bear, but this response is maladaptive in modern society. The fight-or-flight response involves a host of bodily changes triggered by a surge in adrenaline and Cortisol levels that impact blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and heart rate, as well as a slowdown in the activity of the gastrointestinal tract (intestines, stomach)." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"One research study found that those experiencing chronic stress had higher levels of interleukin-6, or IL-6, which are pro-inflammatory cytokines that act as signaling messengers between cells of the immune system and which can whip up the immune cells to turn against the body itself. You might remember that this is the same inflammatory cytokine that Douglas Kerr, associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, found in elevated levels in the spinal fluid of MS patients." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Because chronic stress is ongoing, high Cortisol levels do not subside until the stress is removed or the adrenal glands exhausted. Over time, elevated Cortisol levels can wreak havoc on your body. Sustained high Cortisol levels destroy healthy muscle and bone, slow down healing and normal cell regeneration, deplete the necessary biochemicals to make other vital hormones, impair digestion, dull mental processes, interfere with healthy endocrine function, and weaken the immune system." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"This is where the ripple effects of the body's stress response can lead to full-blown mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, as well as high blood pressure, heart problems, and cancer. chronic stress can even tear at the architecture of the brain. But how to make sense of such a woolly concept as stress? By keeping in mind its biological definition. Above all, stress is a threat to the body's equilibrium. It's a challenge to react, a call to adapt. In the brain, anything that causes cellular activity is a form of stress." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The belly is just doing its job, stockpiling energy stores as insurance against the next famine. With chronic stress, that stockpile ends up around the midsection, in the form of a spare tire. This is detrimental not only to our physique, but also to our health, because fat stores can easily make their way into the arteries of the heart and cause blockage. For anyone skeptical of the notion that stress can kill, herein lies one of the physical links between stress and heart attacks. Compounding the buildup of fat, after a stressful event, we often crave comfort foods." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are. WHAT PROTECTS THE MIND PROTECTS THE BODY Bob was stressed out." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "And anybody, regardless of their nature and upbringing, will exhibit the ill effects of chronic stress if there is no outlet for frustration, no sense of control, no social support. Essentially, if there is no hope, our brains don't shut off the response. Everybody's threshold for stress is different, and that point can change in response to influences from the environment or our genetics or our behavior or any combination thereof. As with the neurochemistry of the brain, our stress threshold is always changing." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"And that's not all: Both chronic stress and sleep deprivation each play an independent role in our struggles with overweight and obesity. Most people who are struggling to lose weight never stop to consider the effect that sleep could be having on their efforts. In fact, I've even heard from clients who ask if getting less sleep might be helpful as they'd burn more calories if they were awake more hours." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Choose a method or two that suits you and practice it regularly to help reduce chronic stress. You'll find that these techniques will ultimately reduce your body's physiological response to stress and will also become pleasurable interludes in your daily routine." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Their moai may very well be part of the equation. chronic stress takes its toll on overall health, and these women have a culturally ingrained mechanism that sheds it every afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Books like Bowling Alone chronicle how people in the United States are increasingly alienated from their neighbors. On average, an American has only two close friends he or she can count on, recently down from three, which may contribute to an increasing sense of stress. GARDEN SECRETS From Motubu, Craig, Greg, Rico, and I ventured back inland and headed north along the coastal highway toward Oku." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

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