Learn about two stress hormones: Adrenaline and Cortisol.
100 ways to keep up on your exercise routine.
This stress video from National Geographic will share with you a scientific overview of the body's stress response system involving the stress hormones known as adrenaline and cortisol.
Understanding the link between cortisol and stress is a particularly compelling subject in the study of the science of stress because there can be some fairly major consequences, physically, if this stress hormone is not managed correctly.
When the body is exposed to a stressful experience (mental or physical), it begins to release the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, allowing you to deal with the situation.
Adrenaline helps improve our speed and force, making us more capable of reacting/responding to the stressor, and cortisol provides the energy burst needed to support that extra speed and force.
The video explains that when the stress is physical, the cortisol burst is used up as the body burns energy, but when the stress is mental, the body cannot eliminate the hormone as easily.
Left unchecked over a long period of time, a buildup of cortisol can deplete bone density and cause other chronic diseases.
The basic message of this presentation is that, if you are going to live a life filled with mental stress challenges, then you must have a healthy and rigorous exercise routine in order to eliminate all the cortisol produced in your body.
100 ways to keep up on your exercise routine.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Time for an Attitude Adjustment!
We are all leaders in our own lives. We have to be because no one else is going to do it for us. Michael Gerber, author of the E-Myth says, “Leaders are at their best when operating from their strengths and core values.”
However, most of us don’t think of ourselves as leaders. Many of us just think we are like a small cog in a large wheel, doing what we can to get by. Many of us don’t really believe that what we do, say and feel has much impact on the world or even the people in our immediate surroundings — our community.
A great example is the environment. For decades, people have believed that their individual actions don’t matter, but now we see that the collective actions of billions of "individuals" have destroyed this planet and we are now working feverishly to repair the damage.
The truth is that we do matter as individuals, but there is more than one way that individuality can be understood. One way is through a sense of entitlement. A few years ago, Dr. Jean Twenge wrote a book called, ”Generation ME”, which discussed the idea that the post baby boom generation in North America, called Generation X, felt entitled to receiving things not earned.
Dr. Twenge explained that Gen-Xers walked around with their hands out. In this first book, the dynamic was limited to Generation X, but in her latest book, ”The Narcissism Epidemic”, she reports that this dynamic has taken over in all age groups, including seniors and children. I am sure most would agree that extreme narcissism is not a good plan for any society.
A second and perhaps better way to “DO” individuality is what Michael Gerber, author of “The E-Myth”, calls, “Putting your life first.” He does not mean entitlement. He does not believe that life owes anybody anything, not earned. He does believe, however, that people compromise their dreams far too often. I agree with him and I believe that we pay a high price; in terms of wellness, for compromising our dreams.
We all compromise all the time and we have been doing this since birth. In fact, as we grow older, we become masters of compromising. Dr. Gabor Maté, author of “When the Body Says NO, The Costs of Hidden Stress”, says that as babies, before our brains are fully developed, we are forced to constantly compromise our needs as our parents try to function in this high-stress world. Dr. Maté believes that all this compromising leads to repressed emotion and repressed emotion leads to chronic degenerative disease later in life. As I said, we pay a very high price.
Many other doctors, such as Dr. Ray Strand, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and Dr. Kenneth Cooper, all support the notion that extreme emotional stress is a major component of chronic degenerative disease. The reality is that we have confused our need for individuality by taking the destructive narcissism and entitlement path too far, and completely overlooking our own core strengths, values and dreams. It seems that the further we put our hands out, the lower on our own priority lists we fall.
The result has been epidemic levels of chronic degenerative disease across North America. The Centers for Disease Control in the US and Canada now believe that 75% of us suffer from one chronic degenerative disease and 50% of us suffer from two or more chronic degenerative diseases. I don't know about you, but, I think it's time for an attitude adjustment.
However, most of us don’t think of ourselves as leaders. Many of us just think we are like a small cog in a large wheel, doing what we can to get by. Many of us don’t really believe that what we do, say and feel has much impact on the world or even the people in our immediate surroundings — our community.
A great example is the environment. For decades, people have believed that their individual actions don’t matter, but now we see that the collective actions of billions of "individuals" have destroyed this planet and we are now working feverishly to repair the damage.
The truth is that we do matter as individuals, but there is more than one way that individuality can be understood. One way is through a sense of entitlement. A few years ago, Dr. Jean Twenge wrote a book called, ”Generation ME”, which discussed the idea that the post baby boom generation in North America, called Generation X, felt entitled to receiving things not earned.
Dr. Twenge explained that Gen-Xers walked around with their hands out. In this first book, the dynamic was limited to Generation X, but in her latest book, ”The Narcissism Epidemic”, she reports that this dynamic has taken over in all age groups, including seniors and children. I am sure most would agree that extreme narcissism is not a good plan for any society.
A second and perhaps better way to “DO” individuality is what Michael Gerber, author of “The E-Myth”, calls, “Putting your life first.” He does not mean entitlement. He does not believe that life owes anybody anything, not earned. He does believe, however, that people compromise their dreams far too often. I agree with him and I believe that we pay a high price; in terms of wellness, for compromising our dreams.
We all compromise all the time and we have been doing this since birth. In fact, as we grow older, we become masters of compromising. Dr. Gabor Maté, author of “When the Body Says NO, The Costs of Hidden Stress”, says that as babies, before our brains are fully developed, we are forced to constantly compromise our needs as our parents try to function in this high-stress world. Dr. Maté believes that all this compromising leads to repressed emotion and repressed emotion leads to chronic degenerative disease later in life. As I said, we pay a very high price.
Many other doctors, such as Dr. Ray Strand, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and Dr. Kenneth Cooper, all support the notion that extreme emotional stress is a major component of chronic degenerative disease. The reality is that we have confused our need for individuality by taking the destructive narcissism and entitlement path too far, and completely overlooking our own core strengths, values and dreams. It seems that the further we put our hands out, the lower on our own priority lists we fall.
The result has been epidemic levels of chronic degenerative disease across North America. The Centers for Disease Control in the US and Canada now believe that 75% of us suffer from one chronic degenerative disease and 50% of us suffer from two or more chronic degenerative diseases. I don't know about you, but, I think it's time for an attitude adjustment.
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