In today’s modern world, CHRONIC stress keeps us wallowing in a corrosive bath of hormones. Although stress is a natural response to acute danger, fight, or flight, chronic stress means we’re unable to turn that response off. After a while, the stress response is MORE damaging than the ACTUAL stressor. Sometimes, we don’t even realize we’ve triggered the stress response but that’s exactly what happens when we worry. What Happens to Our Bodies When We’re Stressed? Cell repair and regeneration shuts down – after all, your body perceives you’re in danger and its goal is to enable you to fight or flight All unnecessary systems…
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A lot of people suffer from Fibromyalgia. One of our patients at Optimum Health came in yesterday who has suffered from Fibromyalgia for over 10 years. She is only 4 weeks into her fibromyalgia treatment (freedom from fibromyalgia) plan with us here at Optimum Health and she said she wants to find as many people out there suffering from Fibro and tell them to come with her because you CAN feel better! Living your life in constant pain sometimes makes it hard to remember or even believe it possible to BE pain-free. Here at Optimum Health, we take an Integrative…
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There has been controversy regarding the need for vitamin E and how much we really need. A recent study recommends that adequate amounts of vitamin E are especially critical for infants, pregnant women, and the elderly. It is one of the most difficult vitamins to obtain through diet. It is estimated that only a small percent of Americans consume enough dietary vitamin E to meet the recommended daily allowance, which is typically much lower than optimum amounts. On the other hand, some experts have raised unnecessary alarms about excessive vitamin E intake when most people obtain insufficient amounts in their…
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