Jator Pierre joins Debbie on this episode to talk about how stress affects your health.
Stress is the root of most people’s health problems but they are unaware of it. Everyday people juggle a busy schedule, family and life obligations. Then we add a full training schedule for a 50k, marathon or Ironman distance triathlon or we have a tragic death in our family, lose a job or a divorce. What does the stress do to your body…your gut, your joints and your brain!?
In the chapter on stress in Paul Chek’s “Eat, Move and Be Healthy” book, he explains the different kinds of stress. Jator Pierre explains the types of stress we have in our lives including internal and external stressors.
The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system is activated with repeated stress that hits us everyday. We all deal and react to stress differently. We have two parts of our automatic nervous system- sympathetic nervous systems (SNS) that produces the flight-or-fight nervous response. A stressful situation will activate the SNS as your fight or flight… then your body responds by releases stress hormones to increase your sweat rate, heart rate and blood pressure. The redirection of the blood being shunted away from your internal organs to the skin and muscles then reduces the digestive and elimination processes of the body in response to the stress. When the SNS is over-activated, the hormone cortisol levels are increased which results in the suppression of the growth and repair hormones. The body begins to breakdown muscle tissue and increases fatigue as the cortisol levels are increased over a long period of time (faucet keeps running) which leads to dysfunction of the immune system.
When are parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is suppressed, then we have digestion and repair problems as well as hormone dysfunction since the PNS stimulates digestion, metabolism as well as release of tissue building hormones.
We need to find the right balance of the nervous system… the balance between stress hormones and repair hormones. Too much of one or the other causes imbalance in our hormonal system.
Talk to Jator for a consultation at http://www.wehlc.com/ or contact Debbie at http://fitnessforwardstudio.com/contact-us/
Find Paul Chek’s book at http://www.amazon.com/How-Eat-Move-Be-Healthy/dp/1583870067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429028132&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+move+and+healthy
