DON’T STRESS: SUPERFOODS’ RESCUE REMEDY!

By Bonnie Pockley

Stress is one of the broad reaching ailments of society today. While everyday stress affects most of us, we often pass it off as ‘normal’ and march on with the overload of activity and strain in our lives. Stress comes from many different areas of our lives. Emotional stress, environmental stress and physical stress all impact the way we function and overtime, have a negative impact on our physical and mental condition. Stress contributes to disease and illness so much so that its dangers has become of more and more concern to health practitioners.

Cortisol is a hormone released when the body is stressed. It is often simply known as the ‘stress hormone’. Small levels of cortisol are released into the bloodstream before the body relaxes and resets to its normal state of homeostasis. While cortisol is a normal and healthy part of the body’s stress response, chronic stress produces high and unhealthy levels of the cortisol hormone.

Effects of high and prolonged levels of cortisol in the body:

· Elevates blood sugar levels

· Increases abdominal fat

· Decreases bone density

· Suppresses thyroid function

· Impairs cognitive function

· Lowers immunity

How to manage Cortisol levels:

In order to truly manage cortisol levels you need to reduce stress. This is not the easiest thing to do once we enter the vicious cycle of stress compounding and promoting more stress and high cortisol levels compounding and promoting higher cortisol levels! There are, however, ways of supporting the sympathetic nervous system and our adrenals to balance out raised hormonal levels and redress the negative symptoms associated with elevated stress-released cortisol. TONICSUPERFOODS Maca is one such product. Maca, as regular readers would know, is not only an adaptogenic root vegetable but an easily absorbed bioavailable product that works specifically on the endocrine and central nervous systems. Its adaptogenic properties mean that Maca increases cortisol levels if they are underactive and decreases cortisol levels when they are overactive. As most of us live a modern fast paced lifestyle of high stress, most of us have elevated cortisol levels that need to be addressed.

Vitamin B and stress management:

A Vitamin B complex is also extremely important in stress management. Stress affects most functions of the body including metabolism and detoxification. When we ‘stress’ our body leeches high levels of mineral and uses up vitamin stores to manage excess hormone levels that need to be balanced, metabolised and excreted. The more prolonged stress is, the more impaired these processes are. As Vitamin B is a water-soluble vitamin that isn’t produced by the body and isn’t stored, it must be continuously replenished. Furthermore, Vitamin B is deficient in most diets.

B-Vitamins are commonly associated with and commonly used to treat:

· Stress

· Nervousness

· Anxiety

· Cardiovascular system health

· Poor energy levels

· Skin, Hair and Nails

· Our immune system

Not all vitamin B supplements are the same. The beauty of TONICSUPEFOODS BEE POLLEN is that unlike supplements, Bee Pollen is a food substance that is easily absorbed, high in protein and contains high levels of B vitamins as well as essential amino acids!

Stress and dehydration:

Dehydration is caused by stress as well as causing stress in and of itself. When we are stressed our body filter systems work over-time to process excess levels of hormones. The body requires a larger amount of fluid to do this and insufficient levels of water means the body leeches water from our cells. As our cells become dehydrated, our bodily systems are taxed and rendered less effective.

Staying hydrated is imperative for health as well as for lowering and managing stress.  Megahydrate is one of the best products we could find on the market. Not only does it allow your body to absorb and utilize fluid faster and more effectively but it also alkalises your blood. Megahydrate also gives you a much needed dose of hydrogen ions that protect cell integrity and prevent early and avoidable signs of aging.

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