Learn how to de-stress your body and build up your glands of stress by way of healthy lifestyle, including diet and specialised supplementation.
During these stressful times, it is vitally important to reduce stress and look after your health and the health of those around you. Stress intensifies the demands on your body, depleting nutrients faster than food can replenish them, rapidly building up toxic by-products, and making every organ and gland, including your brain, work harder.
Think about the difference between driving your car around town at 30 miles an hour and racing around a track at 180 miles an hour. In a race, your vehicle needs better fuel and more frequent care. Our bodies are the same. During stress, your body is in a race, and to finish the race in good shape, it’s essential to pay attention to what your body needs and to step up your self-care. With years of experience dealing with stress in my naturopathic clinic, I’d like to share some valuable information to help you stay healthy and handle stress more easily. I’ve developed effective tools to combat stress’s destructive effects and avoid adrenal fatigue and other stress-related health problems.
Here is some of my expanded knowledge. Remember, as a general rule, the better your overall health, the better you handle stress. Follow my D E S T R E S S guidelines to protect your health from stress and notice the difference in how you feel and function.
D – Define What’s Important
– Identify who and what are important in your life and decide to live accordingly.
E – Energize
– Nourish yourself with healthy foods, exercise to increase circulation, optimize function, and eliminate toxins.
S – Support
– Use dietary supplements designed to compensate for the effects of stress on your body and supply the nutrients used up during stress.
T – Take Your Time
– Breathe deeply, find moments of calm, and enjoy something every day.
R – Reframe
– Reinterpret stressful events to discover what you can do and how you can benefit from them.
E – Eliminate Energy Robbers
– Identify and remove energy drains and establish clear boundaries.
S – Sleep
– Ensure you get enough rest to recharge and heal, and take moments of silent solace each day.
S – Smile
– The physical act of smiling can change how you feel inside, influencing your behavior and how your body reacts.
In challenging times, we often do without many material things we took for granted. This provides an opportunity to reevaluate who and what are essential for our happiness and to focus on them. Imagine today is the last day you’ll see the people in your life. How would you treat them differently? If everything you value were taken away, which would you miss most? Decide to live in a way that reflects these priorities.
Simple changes, like eliminating caffeine or sugar, can have a huge payoff. Stress depletes nutrients quickly, so it’s essential to eat well to provide your body with the nutrients it needs. Plan nutritious meals and snacks ahead of time and shop weekly for healthy foods. Besides good nutrition, enjoyable exercise—like dancing, playing sports, or wrestling with your kids—reduces stress’s impact, normalizes bodily functions, eliminates toxins, increases energy, decreases depression, and makes you feel better overall.
During stress, your body burns up many times the daily requirement of vitamin C. A sustained-release vitamin C formula with bioflavonoids, antioxidants, and trace minerals can help. Additionally, herbal supplements specifically formulated for stress support can keep you balanced, calm, clear-headed, and focused.
Change little things to reduce stress. If you’re always hurrying to work, leave a few minutes earlier. Relax your way through the early hours rather than rushing. On the way to work, listen to something enjoyable instead of the news. Remember to breathe deeply throughout the day.
Our stress often stems from how we interpret events. Reframing your perspective can reduce stress. If you’re worried about losing your job, proactive steps—like updating your resume, trimming expenses, and exploring other employment opportunities—can lead to a better outcome and lower stress levels.
Identify what energizes and what drains you. Take steps to eliminate energy robbers from your life and establish boundaries to protect your time, energy, and emotional space. Focus on positive, useful thoughts and bring more of what makes you happy into your life.
Good sleep is crucial for reducing stress’s effects. Aim for 8-9 hours of restful sleep each night. Herbal support formulas and magnesium citrate can help you relax and sleep well. Additionally, find periods of silent solace through prayer, meditation, nature, music, art, or physical activity to renew your heart and mind.
Smiling, even without emotional content, can make you feel happier. So why not, look deeper at the people, places, and events around us and appreciate their soulful qualities. Allow yourself to smile and notice how it changes your feelings and behaviors.
This financial and global crisis will end, but life’s stresses will continue. So, take care of yourself now to not just survive but to strengthen your health, so you’re always ready for whatever lies ahead.
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