Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's really just a quick booklet; a quick look at a particular component of the maitake mushroom, which is very useful in helping the body correct the imbalance that has arisen through bad lifestyle choices, bad food choices and abnormally high stress levels. It is also very relevant for diabetes.
Mike: Are you the primary author of this book?
Kaylor: Yes, I'm one of the co-authors.
Mike: And you're a PhD, correct?
Kaylor: Yes.
Mike: What's your area of study? |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 This is the reason that diabetic patients under high stress will need to increase drug dosages to compensate for the increased blood sugar levels. Cortisol also increases hepatic protein synthesis and protein catabolism at the same time, and stimulates hormone sensitive lipase and the release of fatty acids from adipose tissue.
ADRENAL MEDULLA
The adrenal medulla consists of secretory cells, 80% of which produce and release epinephrine (adrenaline), while the remaining 20% secrete norepinephrine (noradrenaline). |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Added to this is the fact that pharmaceutical medications, pollution, high stress levels, nutrient-depleted soils, and refined and packaged foods all contribute to nutritional deficiencies.
This chapter and the protocols in this book go well beyond general recommendations for nutritional supplements. We have provided not only the minimal doses people should strive for (such as the RDA) but also the optimal dosages to prevent diseases and deficiencies. |
KC Craichy
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 What actually happens to us in a high stress or emergency situation? A typical stress response sets off approximately 1,500 biochemical reactions in the brain and body. Our heart rate elevates. Our muscles constrict. Our lungs expand. We breathe faster. And we experience an adrenaline rush that sends quick energy to our muscles. Almost all body functions and organs react to stress. Like our caveman friend, this flood of adrenaline allows us to move and think faster and can help save our life. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 High stress was defined as high psychological demand with low decision latitude, and low stress was defined as low-demand, high-latitude.30
For women with preeclampsia, obstetricians and mid-wives often recommend bed rest and lying on the left side; this position helps reduce edema (page 180) and lower blood pressure (page 246) by increasing urinary output.31 However, a review of clinical trials concluded that bed rest can significantly worsen pregnancy-induced hypertension.32 Women with preeclampsia should discuss the pros and cons of bed rest with their doctors. |
KC Craichy
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| Adrenal Fatigue
We aren't meant to experience these high stress threats often, however. They should be the exception rather than the norm. If stress becomes chronic and long-term, which it does in many of our lives, our feedback loops become degraded, and we experience "adrenal fatigue"— the result of racing through life with a constantly aroused sympathetic (fight-or-flight) nervous system. Just ask the person who is stuck in freeway traffic when he's late for a meeting or the person working on an assembly line with increased quotas despite recent layoffs of personnel. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Despite Japan's problems with overcrowding and high stress levels, they still had the lowest level of major depression. A number of studies have confirmed this early finding. New studies have shown that consumption of diets high in N-6 fats increased rates of major depression, and diets high in N-3 oils lowered depression rates. Trans fats played a major role as well.
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KC Craichy
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| Combine a lack of sleep with high stress at your job, caring for a newborn or a sick child, a heavy study load at school, or going through menopause, and we start to feel like a basket case. You can't "burn the candle at both ends" and not pay a price.
Regularly catching only a few hours of sleep can hinder metabolism and hormone production in a way that is similar to the effects of aging and the early stages of diabetes. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 The conversion of T4 to T3 by the liver is slowed down by high stress.629'630,631,632 This is a natural defense mechanism against burning up.
Thyroid lab scores may or may not be low, but the typical symptoms of hypothyroid are present. If a person takes thyroid medication to force their body to go faster, the result can be harmful to health. This problem is even recognized in the scientific literature. A recent study warns doctors not to give thyroid hormone to seriously ill patients, even if their thyroid lab scores are low, as significant problems can easily result. |
| Common anorexia is frequently encountered due to high stress, fears regarding food, or misconceptions about how to lose weight. Cachexia is the same physical problem as anorexia; it is simply caused by a different source, a disease that makes the body waste away.
Overcoming the cachexia problem is crucial to surviving cancer. High leptin sets the stage for cancer risk. Initially, high leptin may fan the flames of cancer and make it grow and spread. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Attention to the Pituitary gland may help Thyroid, Adrenal, Pancreas, or reproductive gland imbalance, poormaturation of secondary sexual traits; for high stress; retarded growth; glucose control and hypoglycemia; and poor Protein synthesis. Males often have an over-active anterior pituitary gland; and females often have an under-active posterior pituitary gland. When the Pituitary gland is damaged, one looks older than one's age. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 High stress levels are believed to be a contributing factor in the increasing incidence of hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia can be inherited, but most often it is precipitated by an inadequate diet. This is referred to as functional hypoglycemia (FH). Many other bodily disorders can cause hypoglycemic problems as well, among them adrenal insufficiency, thyroid disorders, pituitary disorders, kidney disease, and pancreatitis. Immune deficiency and candidiasis are strongly linked to hypoglycemia. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| The low stress was measured during summer vacation and high stress during final exams. The control students eating a typical American diet containing soybean oil increased their aggression scores significantly, but the students taking the DHA supplement showed no increased aggression.
With drugs saturating our youth culture, increased aggression associated with such drugs as cocaine has become more common. The idea that diet may make the difference between aggressive, violent cocaine users and non-violent users was recently tested. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Under high stress conditions— hypertension and many forms of heart disease—the need for taurine increases to compensate for either an accompanying impairment of taurine metabolism or increased requirements. Dr. H. Kohaski and colleagues (Japan) suggest that entry-level taurine may have been low and, as the stress of hypertension progresses, taurine levels drop even lower (Kahashi 1983; Braverman et al.1987).
Taurine has a diuretic action that benefits hypertensive individuals, as well as patients with congestive heart failure. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 Lack of physical activity can lead to osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, decreased immune function, and high stress levels. When people go to their physicians' offices for help after developing these problems, almost invariably their doctors place them on medication while paying little attention to the underlying lifestyles that are most likely the main culprit.
Dr. Mark Nelson reported in the American Journal of Hypertension that 42 percent of patients with hypertension could get off their medication if they would follow simple lifestyle changes. |
Patrick Holford
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 One surprising result that emerged from a survey of patients seen at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition clinic was that, before consulting a nutritionist, 54 percent of them scored high on a questionnaire concerning their ability to cope with stress, yet within six months of starting their optimum nutrition regimes only 28 percent still had a high stress rating. For the rest, whatever happened during those six months improved their ability to cope.
The chemistry of stress
Your body chemistry changes fundamentally every time you react stressfully. Stress starts in the mind. |
| An excess of adrenaline can result in a state of high stress and anxiety, while a deficiency can result in the opposite—low energy, no motivation, and poor concentration. There is evidence that some people may abnormally turn excessive amounts into toxins that induce disperceptions and even hallucinations. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 Take these three high-stress scenarios as examples: þHigh-performance nutrition keeps your Wellness level competitive and buffers high stress. þAverage nutrition makes it difficult to sustain Wellness. Stress will have the upper hand. þPoor nutrition debilitates your Wellness level. In the battle for control of your body, stress is winning. You are losing.
In other words, when confronted with high stress levels, the only way to achieve Wellness is through high-performance nutrition. High-performance nutrition puts oxidative stress in its place. |
| Positive food swings brought on by healthy eating habits give you the horsepower to accomplish anything. But high stress levels make it hard to establish these wholesome eating habits, and so negative food swings follow. What do an arthritis-ridden housewife, a pilot with prostate cancer, and a burnt-out attorney have in common? They're all riding the roller coaster of dysfunctional food swings, caught in a cycle of high stress and improper diet.
Although stress is different things to different people, we can all identify it. Simply stated, stress is the stuff that makes you feel bad. |
Gary Null
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| This is a kind of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that results from long-standing insults to the lung tissue such as cigarette smoking and environmental irritants, coupled with a toxic lifestyle: poor nutrition, sedentary habits, alcohol consumption, and high stress.
Our usual healthy protocol applies to this condition, with a few specific recommendations: Increase your intake of green juices, going up to thirteen glasses of vegetable juice a day, and include garlic/ onion juice. Dilute the garlic and onion with aloe vera, cabbage, celery, or apple juice. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| When your immune system is weakened through poor nutrition, high stress levels, not enough sleep, and the rigors of travel, the germs have the opportunity to get a foothold in your body.
One of the keys to resisting an infection is to begin helping your body fight it as soon as you are aware it's there. We all know the symptoms: fatigue, achiness, sore throat, swollen glands, runny nose, cough, and fever. If you have a sore throat and ignore it, stay up late, and eat a bowl of ice cream, it's bound to get worse. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Particular medical conditions that have a high stress component include asthma and allergies, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases, arthritis, and cancer. Surgery, viral conditions, and environmental chemical exposure may be short-term problems with high stress components. Thus, aspects of this program may apply to many of the other programs. Check other discussions as they may tie into your particular concerns. |
Michael Janson, M.D.
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 I often recommend high doses of pantothenic acid for my patients with recurrent illnesses, environmental toxicity, allergies or high stress levels.
How to take
Pantothenic acid is generally sold as calcium pantothenate, and it is commonly available in 500-mg tablets or capsules, which contain a little bit of calcium in addition to the pantothenate. I usually recommend 500 mg per day as part of Basic Multiple. I may suggest up to 2000 mg to those patients experiencing very high stress levels. The coenzyme form, pantethine, is available as a supplement. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 The focus of this study was to determine if quantifiable physiological changes take place when electrical stimulation is applied during periods of high stress or anxiety.
Initial testing was done on monkeys by measuring levels of gastric acidity during periods of high stress and again following application of CES. Results of repeated testing showed a significant decline in the amount of gastric acidity following the CES treatment. Carefully controlled tests and studies with human volunteers yielded the same results. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 If you have an infection, fever, an injury or trauma, high stress levels or planning surgery.
• If you have a nervous system disorder.
• If you have kidney or liver disease or underactive adrenal or pituitary gland.
• If you are in a weakened condition or undernourished.
Over age 60:
Increased risk of developing low blood sugar. Pregnancy:
Decide with your doctor if drug benefits justify risk to unborn child. Risk category C (see page xviii).
Breast-feeding:
It is not known if drug passes into milk. Avoid drugs or discontinue nursing until you finish medicine. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
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 In fact, lack of stress may be more harmful to physical and mental health than high stress levels: many busy executives thrive for years on a high-pressure schedule, only to drop dead weeks after beginning a relaxing retirement. Severe, chronic, long-term stress can indeed be harmful, but most of us don't even come close to reaching critical stress levels except on rare occasions. |
the Editors of PREVENTION
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 You can take kava as needed during periods of high stress, but you shouldn't take it for long periods of time. of an upper respiratory infection such as the common cold or sinusitis, or of an allergy, says Connie Catellani, M.D., medical director of the Miro Center for Integrative Medicine in Evanston, Illinois. But the fact that stuffiness is a symptom doesn't make it any more stuffy nose isn't an ailment. It's a symptom—usually
A71 Hp., IIV CI WITH HpDR«i pleasant to have to breathe through your mouth and pronounce your ns like ds. |
| The dosage above is recommended to help carry you through times of high stress. If you prefer a more concentrated extract, look for one that has 200 to 300 milligrams of standardized extract. Once you're back to a more routine schedule, you can cut back to two doses a day on an ongoing basis, Dr. Broadhurst says. Tincture forms of schisandra are widely available, she adds, as are combination formulations that contain schisandra. Either option is fine, she feels. Follow the instructions on the label.
Garlic
Eat two cloves a day or take a 500-milligram capsule three times a day. |
| The dosage above is recommended for times of high stress, Dr. Broadhurst says. Once things calm down, you can take one-half to two-thirds of that dose on an ongoing basis.
Ashwaganda
Take one 400- to 600-milligram capsule three or four times a day.
Ashwaganda is India's version of ginseng, according to Dr. Broadhurst. "Like other adaptogens, it helps increase resilience to stress," she says, "no matter what form the stress takes. Some people are hyper when they're burned out, while others are sluggish. Adaptogens like ashwaganda help return you to normal. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) is equally important during periods of high stress or in individuals who need adrenal support. Pantothenic acid deficiency results in adrenal atrophy characterized by fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, nausea, and abdominal discomfort. Pantothenic acid is found in whole grains, legumes, cauliflower, broccoli, salmon, liver, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes. |
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