Is Stress Causing Problems For You?

Stress is a silent killer.  It can cause life-altering changes in your body and sometimes you don’t even realize you have stress.  How can this be and what can you do?

Some of the common symptoms from being overstressed include:

1. rapid heart rate.  our body was made for back in the caveman days and if there was stress, it was often life-threatening.  A wild animal close by is a great example.  You need to be able to fight it off or run away.  In order to accomplish that, your heartbeat rate will often start to rise so you will have the ability to accomplish that task.  In 21st century United States, most stress is not life-threatening, but our bodies have not adapted and so your heart rate will often rise under stress.
2. Low energy levels especially at the end of the day.  Even though most stress today is not life-threatening, your body will still react to it.  One of the ways it reacts is to send blood to the muscles of your back legs and arms.  The reason is to prepare you for a fight, but the result is to put those muscles into a  slight spasm.  it takes a lot of energy to keep those muscles ready to go all day long so if you are feeling like you don’t have energy like you should at the end of the day it is probably not because you are aging, but because all those muscles are using up all the energy that you would have available to you.

There are 3 types of stress that you can potentially face every day of your life.  Physical stress is when you fall off a bike, do a workout, or get in a car accident.   Not all physical stress is completely bad.  For instance, if you lift some weights, you are tearing muscles, but then in the next day or so, your body repairs those tears and actually builds them back bigger.

Chemical stress is the stress your body suffers when you breathe in fumes from a toxic chemical, come in contact with a toxin like a pesticide, and even when you decide to eat fast food rather than make dinner at home using organic foods, or smoke a cigarette.

Finally, there is Mental/Emotional stress.  This is the most likely one to fly under your radar and affect you without you even realizing it is there.

If you would like to find out if stress is causing problems in your life, there is an easy way to do this.  We have computerized technology that is cutting edge and can show you the effects of the stress you live with on your body.  This testing is easy to do and can let us know if the stress you have built up is something that you can work on yourself or if you need some help.

Give us a call at 402-333-4848 and we can get you scheduled for your scan.  The normal charge for this is $150 which is a bargain but if you mention this blog post you can receive the scan for only $47.  Call us right now at 402-333-3838 or text us at 531-600-9420.