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Stress And Anxiety

Your Plan Of Action – The Natural Approach

  • Make changes to your diet to help your body cope better with stress
  • Know that a certain pattern of eating may be making you feel more stressed than you should be
  • Take specific nutrients that reduce the impact stress has on you physically and mentally

Best Test Option: Adrenal Stress Test

What Is Stress?

Millions of years ago, our bodies were designed to react quickly to danger.  Like wild animals we were on constant alert so we could run or fight if threatened. When your brain thinks your life is in danger it stimulates the release of adrenaline and cortisol

This fight or flight response is incredibly clever and thoroughly efficient. It provides instant energy for 5-10 minutes allowing you to react swiftly to dangerous situations.

These days, many of us live under chronic stress.   But your body can’t distinguish between late trains, missed appointments, spiralling debt, infuriating work colleagues, family disputes or a truly life-threatening stress it gears up to challenge. So it reacts exactly the same as it’s always done. 

The problem with many modern lifestyles is that stress (our ‘perceived threat’) is almost continuous and comes without the natural release that either fighting or fleeing might provide.

What Symptoms Could You Experience?

The knock-on effects of continually being too stressed are enormous, physically and mentally.  They can include:

  • Sleep problems
  • Tension (including neck, head, back and shoulder pain)
  • Digestive disorders
  • Hair loss
  • Fatigue
  • High blood pressure
  • Palpitations
  • Chest pain
  • Skin problems (such as hives, eczema, psoriasis and rashes)
  • Jaw pain
  • Infertility
  • Menstrual problems
  • Sexual difficulties
  • Immune suppression (making you prone to recurrent illness and infections)
  • Nervousness, anxiety and panic attacks
  • Depression and moodiness
  • Irritability and frustration
  • Memory problems and lack of concentration

Can Nutrition Help With Stress and Anxiety?

Nutrition can have a big impact on how you cope with stress and how that stress can affect you both physically and mentally.

Balancing blood sugar is essential in lowering stress because the crashes in sugar levels which happen through the day (due to going long periods without food and not eating the right foods) stimulates more adrenaline and cortisol to be released. This is because these stress hormones, apart from helping you to run away from a tiger, can also mobilise your glucose (which has been stored as glycogen in the liver) back into the blood stream. This is why you can feel more jittery, irritable etc. when blood sugar plummets!

Nutrients

Certain nutrients can be extremely helpful in helping to reduce stress and its impact on your health.   These include the B vitamins especially  B5 for stress relief and energy, magnesium – nature’s tranquiliser for relaxation and sleep, chromium for blood sugar balance, Siberian ginseng which acts as a tonic to the adrenal glands and  L-theanine for reducing stress and anxiety. 

Test Options For Stress and Anxiety

The Adrenal Stress Test is the best way to see how stressed you are and this test checks your levels of cortisol using saliva.  Cortisol fluctuates during the day, ideally being highest in the morning, as you start the day and lowest at night when you are ready to wind down and go to bed.  It is most useful to look at this pattern of cortisol over a day and see whether it stays within the normal range throughout the whole day.

The test is easy to take as you collect the saliva samples at home.  The test also measures your level of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) which is the hormone that works to balance many of the negative effects of cortisol and helps you cope with stress. 

Where To Start?

Make sure you are eating well to support your symptoms.  If you would like personalised advice on what to do next then request a consultation with one of our qualified nutritionists.

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Our Testimonials

I have been looking after my health with help from Dr. Glenville for many years. However, I would point out that there appears to be a dearth of information for the over 60′s. I would like to continue learning with Dr. Glenville as I have discovered that there is indeed life after the menopause.Marie
Just sending you this note of thanks. After a hair mineral test for both of us, you devised an eating plan of vitamins and minerals that we needed. Since then we had ICSI treatment and had a little girl. After her birth, I followed your programme again because I wanted another baby. This time we conceived naturally. So thank you very much for all your help. We would not be a family without your help. I am positive that with your help ICSI worked for us the first time, so thank you for that too. Susan
I have not felt healthy in almost 20 years. I am healthier, no longer hungry all the time, have lots of energy and feel more optimistic than I have in years. I feel like a new woman, I have lost inches of weight and discovered a love of exercise all through your teachings. Thank you so much. Mary
I would just like to let you know that I have been following the ‘lose your belly’ plan for two weeks now with great success. Not only have I lost weight and my flattened my belly, but I notice a big difference in my skin and hair. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Irene
I am the lady with high FSH (50+, age 41) who had a baby following your diet, after being told I had a less than 1 per cent chance of conceiving. My husband and I want to pass on our heartfelt thanks to you for helping to bring our baby son into the world. We really cannot thank you enough for the tremendous difference you have made to our lives in helping this ‘high FSH’ lady have a baby, so long hoped for.Heather

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