How to Bring Your Stress Level to Zero
Stress is emotional tension that comes through anger or nervousness. Those who are going through stress faces many physical and mental abnormalities. Therefore, such people need extensive care based on medicines and lifestyle. In this article we are going to discuss something very special. You’re just going to be drinking one cup of the thing I’m going to tell you, which will bring down your stress level to zero in few minutes. But I first want to explain why it works?
Now I do want to say that reducing your stress to zero is not healthy for a long period of time in the fact you can’t live without some stress. Stress is actually healthy as long as it’s not sustained. Our bodies become stronger when we put our bodies through stress like exercise for example. The problem is, sustained stress burns out a lot of your organs and I want to just go through that fairly rapidly.
1. It Suppress the Immune System
During stress condition, cortisol level become high in body through HPA. HPA stands for “Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal”. So, when you perceive stress through your brain, it goes through these different levels and then it comes out as cortisol. Now, your body can start adapting to stress with the help of cortisol. So, cortisol goes through these organs and adjusts the organs to deal with this stress. But with the immune system, it basically turns off the immune system and that makes you very susceptible to viral infections and all sorts of other agents like these.
Think about what happens? When people get stressed out a lot of times, they get sick right. So, stress suppresses the immune system. That’s not a good thing. Sustained stress can create atrophy to your lymph nodes. It actually shrinks your lymph nodes, shrink the spleen and the thymus. So, stress is very bad for the immune system.
2. Damages to Stomach
You can actually develop a stomach ulcer; you can have the acid start splashing up causing GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease).
There’s more gastric acid increase in the stomach. That’s why you might get gastritis. The entire digestive system is controlled by the parasympathetic that’s the rest in the digest. So, stress pretty much turns off the digestive system to digest. When you’re under stress it just doesn’t work.
Harms of Stress
Is stress bad for you? Now as a side note, stress also depletes you of vitamin B1, calcium, potassium and H+ (that’s a hydrogen ion). Now what does that mean? How does that relate to stress?
- Well, when you’re going through stress you lose the hydrogen ion. What is the hydrogen ion? Well, you know what you’ve heard of pH before? pH that’s the power of the hydrogen ion, so basically this is an acid.
- So, when you go through the stress, you’re jacking up cortisol. You’re losing your acids and guess what you become; too alkaline. So, you would think that stress makes you acid.
- No, it doesn’t. It makes you excessively too alkaline and the symptoms of alkalosis are muscle twitching, hyperventilation, cramping and anxiety.
- Interesting how stress affects the heart by increasing the blood pressure of the heart rate and creating a constriction of the coronary artery.
Can Stress Raise Blood Sugar?
Stress affects the blood sugars by turning things into sugar. Your fats change into the sugar, protein in sugar, ketones in the sugar and this is why high levels of stress can even make a person a diabetic. So, even though you’re not eating sugar, your body is producing sugar out of other things by having too much stress because another name for this is a glucocorticoid. Now all this sugar that’s generated is basically making us fat.
Problems Caused by Cortisol in Body
- So, if you have too much cortisol you start developing fat specifically around your gut.
- Because the liver is becoming fatty and then it spills over into the gut. So, you’ll have belly fat.
- Now the tone of the muscles become very rigid and tight. So, you get muscle spasms.
- The lung has a problem when you have high levels of cortisol and you hyperventilate. Right, you think you’re not getting enough oxygen but you’re getting too much oxygen. If you were to hyperventilate, what would happen? You would get too much oxygen and you would pass out too much oxygen and not enough co2 actually locks up the ability to absorb this oxygen in the tissues. And what happens is you basically starve of oxygen.
- But the point is that stress throws off your lung and causes an inability to breathe. I mean think about asthma, think about people during panic attacks. people have the anxiety; they’re trying to get more oxygen and that’s making things worse. you should basically just breathe through your nose calm your breath down and then you’ll get more oxygen like really slowly.
Effect of Stress on the Brain:
Now the brain is the last part of this puzzle. Stress and brain are interconnected. Stress destroys certain parts of the brain, that’s why it affects your sleep, your circadian rhythms with sleep but the perception of stress coming through the brain that’s activating the cortisol is controlled by GABA neurotransmitter. GABA neurotransmitter is like a turn-off switch, it’s like the brake pads. Synapses in your brain are a combination of glutamate and GABA receptors and only five percent are dopamine and serotonin. So, all you need to know for this example is, GABA is very important in relationship to cortisol. It controls the excessive amount of cortisol level. So, when people go through the excessive amount of stress over a period of time, they don’t necessarily burn out the adrenals. They’re burning out GABA neurotransmitter.
How to Control Stress
So, the remedy I’m going to talk about inhibits GABA, blocks the enzyme that slows down the degradation of GABA. Thus, increasing GABA which turns off cortisol. So, these little hormones that are coming out of the hypothalamus pituitary down to here are all turned off when you increase GABA. okay and that remedy is
Lemon Balm Tea:
You have to start drinking on a regular basis. lemon balm tea’s very simple. You have one in the morning maybe one in the afternoon, maybe one a little bit later and this has certain phytonutrients to increase GABA. One of the big effects that lemon balm has over your body is, it increases tranquility that’s a really cool. Word tranquility, what does it means? It means peaceful serene and shaken unworried.
Health Benefits of lemon balm tea:
- It increases your tolerance to stress
- It helps you to be calm
- It has properties of anti-anxiety, anti-depression.
- It increases and elevates your mood.
- It does a lot of other things but it’s really good for reducing cortisol.
- So, in one study lemon balm which is in the mint family as a plant created a full remission of anxiety.
- It also showed significant sleep improvements for those people who had insomnia.
Now, there’s many things you can do for stress but lemon balm tea is one of the important things. It’s simple, you’ll feel quick effects right away. It’s very inexpensive and it has a lot of additional health benefits as well that go way beyond just the stress reduction.
