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"A recently published study suggests that severe emotional stress can triple the risk of breast cancer. One hundred women who had a breast lump were interviewed before they knew that they had breast cancer. One in two who had the illness had suffered a major traumatic life event, such as bereavement, within the previous five years. The effects of emotional stress or unhappiness can severely impair digestion, elimination, and immunity, thus leading to a dangerously high level of toxicity in the body." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Some individuals may be experiencing cyclical patterns; for example, emotional stress leads to binge eating, which leads to further emotional stress, which leads to further binge eating. Strategies for avoiding binge eating should be linked to factors that appear to be leading to binge eating for each individual. 5. Family Influences on Dietary Intake and Eating Practices Research has demonstrated that familial factors contribute to the etiology of obesity via genetic and shared environmental factors [231, 232]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"If mental and emotional stress can cause elevated levels of cytokine activity, which can lead to more episodes and flare-ups of autoimmune disease, how can we break this self-defeating cycle? If emotional stress can promote disease, can finding a way to be calmer and less stressed by whatever challenges come our way help to improve our health? THE BIOLOGY OF EMOTION One of the most fascinating findings about how our thoughts and emotions influence our health springs from a study of 180 nuns ranging in age from 75 to 103." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Some individuals may be experiencing cyclical patterns; for example, emotional stress leads to binge eating, which leads to further emotional stress, which leads to further binge eating. Strategies for avoiding binge eating should be linked to factors that appear to be leading to binge eating for each individual. 5. Family Influences on Dietary Intake and Eating Practices Research has demonstrated that familial factors contribute to the etiology of obesity via genetic and shared environmental factors [231, 232]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"It aids in toning the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract and acts to combat the effects of emotional stress. Certain medications such as steroids deplete Vitamin B. One can safely take 100 mgs of B complex daily with meals. B12 and folic acid are useful to better absorb iron and reduce high homocysteine levels. High levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, in the colon and blood may predispose people to both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"He experienced chest pain with normal activity, such as walking across a room, or from just mild emotional stress. He had visited several cardiologists for his heart problem. They gave him a number of standard heart drugs, but his situation persisted, and he decided to see Dr. Sinatra for a fresh opinion. Testing showed that Louis had high levels of uric acid in his blood, indicating faulty ATP metabolism. He had already been taking low doses of L-carnitine and CoQIO. He needed higher doses, and he needed D-ribose to build his ATP pool." - 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.)

"It's a potent part of a cascade of chemicals that relieve emotional stress and reduce anxiety. Along with pain-blunting endorphins and endocannabinoids, the increase in ANP helps explain why you feel relaxed and calm after a moderate aerobic workout. When you talk about burning off stress, these are the elements at work. At this level, you're tearing things down and building them back up again, stronger than they were before. It's crucial to build in recovery time, so your body and brain have the opportunity to bounce back." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"This condition can also be triggered by infections and emotional stress. SPOTS AND VEINS Small Red Raised Spots If you start noticing small red or violet, slightly raised, smooth, rounded spots popping up on your torso, you may have Campbell de Morgan spots (aka cherry angiomas). The spots may look like red domes and are usually smaller than 'A inch. Campbell de Morgan spots are a common benign sign of aging that tend to occur in men and women in their 40s and 50s. Because they often increase with age, they used to be called senile angiomas." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"It aids in toning the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, nerves and acts to combat the effects of emotional stress. Certain medications such as steroids deplete vitamin B. One can safely take 100 mgs of B Complex daily with meals. B12 and Folic Acid are useful to better absorb iron and reduce high homocysteine levels. High levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, in the colon and blood may predispose people to both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The remaining 30 percent of cases of DUB occur among women age 20 to 40, generally as a result of polycystic ovarian syndrome, elevated prolactin levels, emotional stress, obesity, weight loss due to anorexia, or athletic training. The actual cause of DUB is not completely clear. One theory is that the fluctuating estrogen levels seen in chronic lack of ovulation can cause intermittent estrogen withdrawal bleeding. Another theory is that the continuous estrogen stimulation leads to a thickening of the endometrium, which needs more estrogen in order to maintain itself." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Most often it is not the case but more of a hormonal problem such as blood sugar instability or emotional stress. The simplest way to combat food cravings is to eat a well-balanced diet and use a good quality multiple vitamin." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Any physical stress (surgery, illness, rapid change in weight) or emotional stress can cause hair loss. Usually, shedding hair loss will be noticeable around two to three months after the stress begins because it takes this long for hair to grow up your hair shaft. Other causes of shedding are high doses of vitamin A, blood pressure medications, certain antidepressants, gout medications, birth control pills, and low iron or zinc." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"But blue lips may be a sign of Raynaud's disease, a condition in which the small arteries, usually in the fingers and toes but sometimes in other parts of the body, become constricted from the cold or emotional stress. This prevents those body parts from getting enough oxygen and turns them blue. (See Chapters 7 and 9.) Medically known as cyanotic lips, blue lips may also be a red flag that your body isn't getting enough oxygen because of one of several possible respiratory conditions, including pneumonia, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and pulmonary edema." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Free radicals are also generated by high sugar intake, excessive physical or emotional stress, heavy metal toxins, medical radiation, trans fats, certain drugs, and the immune system's response to chronic infection. The oxidative stress inflicted by free radicals on tissues is similar to the oxidation of metal (rusting) or the oxidation of a fat such as butter (turning it rancid). Antioxidant compounds made by your cells eliminate free radicals. You also get antioxidants from food, notably fruits and vegetables, and supplements." - 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.) "For a cardiac patient, emotional stress is deadly. Blood vessels can spasm and tighten up, creating more deficiency to the heart. There could also be some lesser plaque that our diagnostics don't pick up—for example, 10 or 20 percent blockage—or the plaque can develop inside the wall where it can't be seen. Plaque is dynamic. Left to its own devices, it will increase in size. If it develops substantially but very slowly, the body's intelligence can form natural bypasses. We call these collaterals. A patient may have a slowly closing coronary artery and not have a heart attack." - 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.)

"Even avoiding stress can help, because emotional stress depresses the immune system. Stress can also contribute to Th-2 predominance. Overactivity of Th-2 cells is, by itself, also a primary contributor to allergy. It can even create a cycle of almost perpetual allergy. This occurs when Th-2 skewing promotes immune hyperactivity, which then promotes further Th-2 skewing. This cycle can last indefinitely. Antibiotic overuse, particularly during infancy, also contributes to Th-2 skewing, as well as to other important forces that promote allergy, sensitivity, and intolerance." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "In utero stressors, including environmental toxins, inoculations, bacteria, viruses, nutritional deficiencies, and emotional stress. 8. Thyroid disorders-most commonly low thyroid activity, resulting in impaired energy and cognitive function. A similar problem is autoimmune thyroid disorder. 9. Presence of testosterone in males, which exacerbates toxifi-cation. 10. Genetic factors that contribute to all of these various assaults upon the nervous system, immune system, and gastrointestinal system." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Reduce emotional stress by working on your lifestyle. Reduce your workload. Work on your family and relationships in a positive and loving way. Find ways to reduce your financial worries by taking steps for debt repayment. • Get a good night's sleep. The most restorative sleep happens when you fall asleep around 10:00 p.m. If you have sleep troubles, try some relaxing supplements such as passionflower, hops, valerian, magnesium, GABA or melatonin. • Get some exercise and have some fun! Many of us forget that we are meant to move our bodies." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Studies show that mental and emotional stress causes blood glucose levels to rise in people who have type 2 diabetes and can cause glucose levels to rise or fall in people who have type 1 diabetes. Georgia, a forty-nine-year-old marketing manager with type 2 diabetes, noticed that she was having an increasingly hard time keeping her glucose levels in a healthy range with diet and her oral medication. The trouble all began, she said, when she took on a major project at work that required her to take work home with her every night." - 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.)

"Helps release pent-up anger, resentment, jear and emotional stress. scotch broom Used when lack of motivation, doubt and discouragement causes an imbalance in the body to the point of depression. yarrow For those oj have become drained by city life and its stresses. Australian bush flower essences The Australian Aborigines have always used flowers to heal emotional imbalances and physical injuries, and so it is no surprise that Australian native flowers have proved to be suitable for making remedies in the tradition of Bach flowers." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Severe emotional stress, however, causes the number of free radicals to rise significantly, creating oxidative stress. Have you ever noticed that when you are under a lot of pressure you frequently become sick? How many times have you known a close friend or family member who has been under tremendous stress for a prolonged period of time only to discover he has developed cancer or had a first heart attack? I don't have many patients who have run multiple marathons in their lifetimes, but I have hundreds of patients who are under prolonged emotional stress." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"When the blood supply to an area of the heart is inadequate to meet increased metabolic demand (during exercise or emotional stress, for example), patients often feel crampy, pressure-like pain in the left side of the chest, known as angina. When a coronary artery becomes completely blocked by plaque and there is no other blood supply to the downstream heart tissue, muscle cells die. This is known as a heart attack. Most heart attacks are not, however, caused by a gradual buildup of plaque." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Used to treat a variety of ailments including chronic fatigue syndrome, high blood pressure, hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, high cholesterol, constipation, and HIV and AIDS, maitake contains all of the essential amino acids and is an adaptogen, a substance that helps the body adapt to physical and emotional stress." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The effects of emotional stress or unhappiness can severely impair digestion, elimination, and immunity, thus leading to a dangerously high level of toxicity in the body. Just ridding the body of cancer through "weapons of mass destruction" fails to remove the unresolved emotional pain behind it. Chapter Four Body Intelligence in Action Cancer Cannot Kill You Cancer, like any other disease, is not a clearly definable phenomenon that suddenly and randomly appears in some part or parts of the body like mushrooms popping out of the ground." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"By staying primarily at a low baseline of emotional stress, they protected their immune systems from becoming erratic. For centuries, American medicine has deemed the question of whether our emotions can affect our health as irrelevant. Our two-hundred-year span of medical miracles has led us to revere the technological and scientific approach while giving little thought to the impact that emotions might have on our health. In large part that's because until very recently we have lacked scientific proof that our feelings can influence our physical well-being." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "But Raynaud's does not affect her except when she's exposed to sudden changes in temperature or to emotional stress. Selena, like nearly a fifth of her preschool class, has eczema and food allergies (dairy and tree nuts), but other than that, the Sandlers are all quite healthy. Becky would no doubt be surprised, then, to learn how many noxious, invisible chemicals are quietly entering her family's bloodstreams every day, silently lodging in their cells, fat tissue, and, in Becky's case, her breast milk." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "If emotional stress can promote disease, can finding a way to be calmer and less stressed by whatever challenges come our way help to improve our health? THE BIOLOGY OF EMOTION One of the most fascinating findings about how our thoughts and emotions influence our health springs from a study of 180 nuns ranging in age from 75 to 103. Researchers had access to their early journal writings and were able to determine who among them had a mostly positive attitude when faced with stressful situations and who had a more negative response to life's slings and arrows." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Emotional stress," he explained, plays a role in all illnesses, "from the common cold to cancer."39 Once these truths were recognized, he concluded again and again, all such problems could be countered with positive thinking, the great secret of psychology and the Gospels alike: [S]ome people who firmly believe that Jesus Christ healed the sick in the First Century find it difficult to believe that this same power operates today and especially for them. The age of miracles is past, they say sadly. Healing is now done through scientific medical means . . ." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Asthma and allergies share a relationship to emotional stress. Even conventional doctors, especially the younger ones, now know that asthma has significant emotional triggers in addition to its physical components. Anxiety and stress are common asthma triggers—just as they are for so many other conditions and symptoms. It's not that emotions cause asthma, but they can make symptoms a lot worse. Strong emotions can even trigger an attack. Stress management may be one of the best "natural cures," or "adjuncts," for managing asthma severity." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"This means that emotional stress may not only trigger or contribute to the development of cancer, but also undermine or reduce the effectiveness of cancer treatments. The German university professor, Ryke Geerd Hamer, M.D., discovered during routine CT scans of over 20,000 cancer patients, that each of them had a lesion in a certain part of the brain that looked like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a stone has been dropped into it. This distortion in the brain is known as "HAMER herd." Dr." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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