Did you know that stress alone can be causing many seeming unrelated problems? Stress can cause digestive issues, contribute to allergies, cause your memory to fade, cause you to lose sleep or develop chronic insomnia?
In today’s society, we are inundated with stress, and this stress doesn’t let up. Sure, our bodies were designed to handle a certain amount, but they can’t handle the constant demands piled on us today. This puts our adrenal glands at risk!
Think about yourself, and the people all around you. Everyone has been under chronic stress of some type for YEARS, maybe decades. Symptoms of stress include memory loss, anxiety, inability to sleep, an irregular or deceased appetite, digestion problems, energy swings, irritability, low sex drive–the list goes on and on.
Everyone has stress, we always have; our bodies are built to handle it. However, that’s only half the picture; there is some fine print: we’re only designed to handle short-term stress. If the stress continues, that’s when the trouble starts.
When your brain first senses stress, it tells your adrenal glands to work harder to make more cortisol, our “stress hormone”. This creates symptoms in the first list. After months, or years of working too hard, the adrenal glands get tired and worn out; which then create symptoms from the second list.