12 Compelling Reasons to Ditch Stress from Your Life

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mikecarrie01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:33 GMT

What an excellent article on stress. Who knew it affected digestion so profoundly. Maybe that's one reason I could never get my calcium levels up. As a person who always got stressed easily and had crashed adrenals I've worked hard to avoid and manage stress, changing how I react to it and what a huge difference it has made.

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charmela — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:41:42 GMT

I am of the type that does not respond well to stressful situations. On the other hand, I work well under pressure, and get a lot of work done, but the "side effect" of that is unwanted stress on my body and mind. This is why we need vacations, it is just a need to get away from it all. There is no better medicine than this.

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JoLee01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:10:45 GMT

Yeah send ya teenager to "BOARDING SCHOOL" ! That would help heaps !!!!!!!!!

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spinkman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:10:21 GMT

cuople of comments referring to god, whom i believe to be manifested to us in jesus christ, i believe the main way to have stress is an absense of faith in god

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laughonpurpose — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:34:09 GMT

Stress is the number one cause of illness in the USA and constitutes a large threat to the wellbeing and health of Americans, particularly now in these trying economic and financial times. Laughter Yoga has been proven as a viable and effective way of reducing stress and improving overalll health.

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skip smyth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:30:59 GMT

Whoa ! Have mentioned previously on this site that I suffer severe tinnitus. I mean severe. Has been almost 44 yrs. Stress, ha. It too is severe and perpetual. Six feet, 175 lbs, 62 yrs. of age. All is functioning very well. Beer to sleep as have heard sleeping pills are far more deadly.

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superangelkitty — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:26:39 GMT

I agree with TrainerBob about being able to just sit down and enjoy meals. Our society has gotten to the point where stress rules every single thing we do. We should be able to sit down and slowly consume and enjoy our meals but we instead gobble down so that we can move on to the next task. I've always been one who, for whatever reason, has not put such emphasis on eating. I eat out of necessity and chew slowly so as to enjoy every morsel. I CAN'T eat when I'm stressed and I consider myself very fortunate. However, I recently experinced TREMENDOUS stress in my life and found myself semi-binging just before bedtime and as a result put on an additional 20 lbs...and it's mostly visceral which we all know is very dangerous. I am now fortunately out of that stressful situation and can see the effect stress had on my health. I have just started to exercise again and I must say, it feels so good! I had forgotten just how good it feels when those endorphins kick in. Exercise is a major stress buster and thank you Dr. Mercola for posting this excellent article touting it's benefits! :-)

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Arthur_Strauss — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:10:42 GMT

I don't know where this will go because I am not willing to pay to join the "inner circle". Althought this information is true,origin od "fight or flight" is not being focused upon. The body functions according the "A(airway), B(beathing) and C(circulation) priority all the time. Our tongue/Jaw relation in general in "civilized" society (not what Weston Price studied in first half of the last century) is impaired. Most often tongues are crowded by crowded dentition and other times (less often) the mouth is too large for the tongue to provide appropiate proprioceptive stimulus to the tongue to allow for muscle tone, position and posture for ease of the primary functions of the tongue< swallowing, speaking and preathing. Farrand C. Robson, DDS has identified the way the body compensates for this. It is through going into a state of fight or flight, what has been aptly defined as stress here, clenching and grinding of the teeth (look up Human Jaw-Tongue reflex and by going to a forward head position (compromised posture) to manage the airway so the body stop getting signals that it is choking (on the tongue). look at hre study: in “Compensatory head posture changes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea” by Tong, Maorong, and others in the Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology -- Medical Sciences – Pages 66-69 - Volume 20, Number 1 / March, 2000. Information is now surfacing in the literature. However, Joe Mercola and others, this is basic science, coupled with Farrand Robson"s pbservation powers and common sense. It takes alot for the body to manage whatever the posture, fight or flight hormone levels and "jaw muscle tone and position" to maintain a balance for different individuals, so any sudden relaxation or distraction upsets the equilibrium of the tongue in the throat. The tongue drops back providing the most primal threat to us "choking" or compromising the airway and the body has a surge of "fight or flight" . Out of words!

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BestofLuckforAll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:32:31 GMT

I had some type of painful stress many times in my life. One day I was visiting a friend and saw a small staple bound book on her coffee table. The title was something like How to Beat Stress by, I believe, Oxman is the last name. I can't remember the first name.

The book was only about 20 pages. I read the whole book in short order. My life has never been the same. Stress is no longer a problem. I have never read or heard anything like that book before or since. Funny — how these things happen!

Good luck to all.

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curious7 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:30:58 GMT

Especially in this time of economic upheivals it is very important to pay attention to the stresses in our lives. Aside from proper sleep, and a balanced diet, we must pay attention to our spiritual posture. Live up to your beliefs, take time to play, reach out help other who may be struggling, this will get your mind off your worries. Go hiking, biking, or go fly a kite. Do not just play but include your spouse, your children, and good friends.

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krash — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:02:44 GMT

All bandaids. And we know what everntually happens to bandaids.

You must get to know yourself, who you really are. The ultimate tool is the Enneagram. Beware, it will take a little time to come to terms with it, but otherwise, you will always revert to your stress by not knowing why you are how you are. The Ego will always step in to "protect" you by invoking "sinful" behavior (pride, sloth, lust, etc.). Until you know how to blow it all off with a good dose of reality, you will spend all your time trying to remember little "tips" about what to do for stress. Frustrating, they will always be with you then.

Personality Types by Riso is a great encyclopedia to start with. My Best Self, Hurley/Dobson, explains the spiritual aspect of it all.

Or you can just keep tying ribbons around your fingers. Over the bandaids, of course (hate to mix metaphors).

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JJ72 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:32:49 GMT

And he forgot to mention magnesium, which is lost at a very high rate under stress... And then when magnesium gets low, in encourages the body to react in a "high stress" way (releasing adrenaline easily) even more, creating a vicious cycle that can leave one feeling AWFUL. I have experienced this, and am feeling better with significant magnesium supplementation. This is such an important mineral, often more important than calcium!!! The symptoms of low magnesium are pretty much what people suffer when they have been under too much stress. Please, if you're feeling stressed, make sure you get more magnesium! (like 2-3x the RDA, but not all at once, and you may need to try different forms or try topical magnesium for a while)

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havetomove — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:13:49 GMT

Dr. Mercola needs to let go of "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die". That book is so reductive and preachy. I know that Mercola is great about staying updated, researching new things and replacing stale recommendations with new ones, so I was surprised to see that he's still recommending that book. I would recommend "Molecules of Emotion" by Candace Pert for the explanation part.

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JoyfulGent — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:41:12 GMT

One of the most effective and fast-acting ways to dissipate stress is LAUGHTER, and Laughter Yoga (Laughter As Exercise) is a reliable techinque to deliver the RDA (15 to 20 minutes) to receive the health benefits (which include relief of stress, strengthening the immune system, improving blood pressure,etc.). With this system you laugh for its own sake, and do not need to feel good first, you don;t need any jokes or comedy routinesl you don't even need to have a sense of humor. YOu cna start feeling lousy; laugh as exercsie, adn soon you feel good. It works best when done with others (the laughter is coontagious). Check it out at www.LYInstitute.org .

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gman1962 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:31:17 GMT

I liked the information presented and would like to add another important factor regarding digestion and that is

Food Combining. Improper food combining causes the foods we eat to ferment and putrefy. Thus preventing

the ability of the body to properly breadown the foods into simple sugars, fatty and amino acids. The resulting

poisons cause physiological stress to the body which further prevents our capacity to deal with stressors in

the environment. If you are not aware of the Science of Food Combining, I would suggest you incorporate

this subject into your research paradigm. It's benefits are far reaching.

Sincerely, Gman