Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 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. |
| 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. |
Bill Sardi
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 Stress and breast cancer
Many women claim that their breast cancer diagnosis occurred after a period of emotional turmoil in their lives. emotional stress may work in a way not anticipated. It may actually prevent rather than promote breast cancer. Researchers believe stress raises levels of adrenal hormones and lowers levels of ovarian hormones, resulting in a decreased risk for breast cancer. [British Medical Journal 331: 548, 2005] The preventive effect is modest, but it certainly dispels the idea that stress increases the risk for breast cancer.
SUMMARY
What should women do? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| 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. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This can be caused by overeating, abrasive foods and beverages, or emotional stress. If one's food is too heavy or difficult to digest, the stomach passes some of its hydrochloric acid upward into the esophagus, which gives rise to the sensation of "heartburn." A whooping 60 million Americans experience heartburn at least once a month. Over 16 million are plagued by it daily.
Contrary to common belief, heartburn or acid reflux is not caused by too much stomach acid, but by too little of it. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 The chromium that we do obtain from food sources can be depleted in the body by various factors, including a high-carbohydrate diet, infections, and physical and emotional stress. Urinary excretion of chromium can increase as much as fiftyfold under stress.46 A high intake of refined sugar also tends to deplete the body of chromium, as the mineral is used up in removing sugars from the blood.47 Food sources: Brewer's yeast is an excellent source of chromium; other good sources include wheat germ, beef, chicken, liver, whole grains, potatoes, eggs, apples, bananas, and spinach. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Everyone's results on the cleanse will differ, depending on their diet, exercise patterns, and age, as well as physical and emotional stress levels. However, to ensure that you continue to stay as clean inside as possible, you should eat only live, raw fruits and vegetables and should completely eliminate as many environmental toxins as possible (see Part 2). Because the Standard American Diet (appropriately called "SAD") is so poor, you will need to cleanse on a continuous basis to help keep your entire intestinal lining clean. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Among the typical stressors are toxic metals (mercury leaching from fillings, aluminum), petrochemical residues (from pesticides and fertilizers), chemical pollutants (in the water and air), electromagnetic pollution (from power lines), undiagnosed food allergies, nutritional deficiencies, biochemical imbalances, insufficient exercise, and emotional stress. All these factors impinge on the immune system's natural ability to resist the downhill slide into illness. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 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. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| They realize that sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy, often arise from poor diet, toxic overload, disrupted circadian rhythms, emotional stress, disruptive electromagnetic fields, and hormonal and structural imbalances. In short, the majority of sleep problems are symptoms of an unhealthy body, not diseases in and of themselves. |
| In addition, physical, mental, or emotional stress can inhibit production of hormones, particularly the adrenal hormone DHEA. Under conditions of chronic stress, the adrenal glands switch from producing DHEA to producing Cortisol. Since DHEA is a precursor of the male hormones, less DHEA can severely limit testosterone production. A high level of Cortisol also leads to blood sugar imbalances, depressed immune function, and sleep disturbances.23
Are Your Hormones Imbalanced?
The first step in treating a hormonal imbalance is to get an accurate measurement of your hormone levels. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In addition to the above rinsing procedures, it is also important to address the underlying causes, that is, poor diet, dehydration, irregular lifestyle, congested liver and intestinal tract, and emotional stress.
This is what Jim Humble, the inventor of Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), said dealing with his own gum issues. "All of my life I have had trouble with my teeth. Most of my teeth were missing and I wore dentures. My gums were quite soft and my teeth were somewhat loose in the gums. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 NES has produced a general Infoceutical, called emotional stress Release, to address the effects of stress on our body-field. This Infoceutical is correlated to the medulla oblongata, the hindbrain, the seat of the autonomic nervous system (which controls such functions as breathing and heart function). There is also a Star Infoceutical, Energetic Star 8—Chill, that addresses deeper, long-term, stress-related issues. It is bioenergetically correlated to the cerebral cortex, which can become overloaded with sensory data and so contribute to our forming perceptual/emotional tape loops. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. You will:
Heal injuries more quickly
Recover from surgery more rapidly
Fight infection more effectively
Reduce the perception of pain
Reduce or eliminate symptoms of depression
Feel better about being alive!
Looking for even more laughter? Check out this amazing video of a white parrot dancing to The Backstreet Boys: Click here to view it now. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| More specifically, research confirms that high levels of emotional stress increase one's susceptibility to illness. Unrelieved chronic stress taxes and eventually weakens or even suppresses the immune system. Stress can also lead to hormonal imbalances, which in turn interfere with immune function. Of all the body's systems, immune function is the most damaged by stress. It does so by overly activating the sympathetic nervous system, the part of the autonomic nervous system that controls the fight-or-flight response and initiates release of adrenaline and Cortisol. |
Mike Adams
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 Based on this research, one key to preventing both CFS and FMS is keeping your physical and emotional stress to a minimum. This means staying away from caffeine and sugar rushes, maintaining a proper sleep schedule and reducing the emotional stress in your life through major lifestyle changes and relaxation techniques like yoga, deep breathing or hypnosis relaxation.
However, once you do develop either FMS or CFS, all is not lost, and you may even be able to reduce symptoms to the point where you can resume your normal lifestyle. Both magnesium and vitamin D can reduce muscle pain symptoms. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Toxins from Physical / Emotional Stress: 200,000
Depression, anxiety, fear, and other negative emotions cause the body to over-produce stress hormones and other compounds to fight these conditions. This is dangerous because the body damages itself in the process
Toxins from Heavy Metals: 130,000
Cookware, deodorant, chemically poisoned fish, mercury dental fillings, cosmetics, aluminum cans, food, water, light bulbs, many herbal supplements, toothpaste, vaccines, household and automobile paints, etc. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Louis suffered with refractory angina, experiencing chest pain with normal activity, like walking across a room, or with only mild emotional stress. Louis had visited several cardiologists for his heart problem. They placed him on a number of common heart drugs, but the problem persisted.
When Louis came to my office I noticed high levels of uric acid in his blood, indicating faulty ATP metabolism. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 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. |
| 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. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 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. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 There is also simply an inability to respond to physical and emotional stress. So many patients say, T seem to be feeling better and then as soon as I take a brisk walk or go swimming, within 72 hours, I begin to experience what seems like a flu?chills, sore throats, fevers. I get exhausted and go into a relapse and I don't feel well for anywhere from a week or two to months on end.'
"Fatigue is usually a symptom of depression. Because there is no known cause of chronic fatigue, you might see your general practitioner and complain of a list of symptoms and he would diagnose depression. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| All of these, except for the emotional stress Release Infoceutical, have been replaced by Energetic Star Infoceuticals, the newest class of remedies, which work as major "unblockers" of the body-field and energetically correlate to metabolic pathways in the body. Another class of Infoceuticals called Energetic Terrains also was developed. The Terrains deal with energetic environments in the body that can host pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, or their energetic imprints. |
Dawson Church
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 If you realize that your problems are primarily the result of unresolved emotional stress, you will find a complete self-therapy program in Ninety Days to Stress-Free Living, a guide to nurturing yourself.3
Use your journal to track the results of your treatment. Evaluate how you're doing. Have the patience to give each treatment time to have its effect. Some produce very quick results. Some may result in you feeling worse before you feel better. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Food poisoning, highly spiced foods, iced beverages, dehydration, and emotional stress also cause gastric distress. All of these also cause gallstones in the liver and gallbladder, thereby starting off a vicious cycle and creating major disruptions throughout the GI tract. In the final event, malignant stomach tumors may be formed.
Most medical doctors now believe that a "bug" (H. pylori) causes stomach ulcers. Combating the bug with antibiotic drugs usually brings relief and stops the ulcer. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 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. |
David De Angelis
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 She might be under other kinds of stress at the same time (remember that the eyes suffer from emotional stress more than other organs), and all this has led to her sight going more negative. However, it could be healed in this initial phase simply by lessening the near-point/proximal stress (viewing in distance and, perhaps, wearing positive "leisure" glasses for all near-work). Besides, it would be very useful to have some break in your ordinary activities and to let yourself relax and rest. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Although taking an adaptogen by itself is unlikely to be curative for most serious illnesses, using adaptogens as part of a treatment plan can speed up a patient's recuperation, reduce inflammation and oxidation, normalize or enhance immune system response, promote restful sleep, support endocrine re-regulation, and relieve psychological and emotional stress. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Common culprits are intense cold, physical exertion, emotional stress, excessive heat, or an overactive thyroid. Occasionally coronary artery spasm occurs; this, too, squeezes the lumen shut and contributes to a reduction in oxygen delivery. For some people, angina is the result of a combination of coronary artery spasm on underlying plaque. These are the most irritable areas of your arteries because the inner walls, or intima, can become seriously inflamed from chronic silent inflammation.
Physicians use the term stable angina to describe a fixed relationship between oxygen supply and demand. |
| Intense cold, physical exertion, or even emotional stress may cause an increased need for oxygen and result in symptoms of angina.
As a cardiologist, I use medications to protect the heart muscle from diminished oxygen supply. Some drugs work to reduce the heart's work load and oxygen demand, while others, such as nitroglycerin, work to increase the diameter of the arterial walls and increase oxygenated blood flow to the heart. Drug therapy certainly has a place in the treatment of coronary artery disease, offering an improved quality of life in spite of coronary heart blockage. |
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