High Stress Levels Increase Risk Of Stroke

Start the New Year with a more relaxed lifestyle incorporating a few simple tips to help make your 2005 a happy and healthy year.

• Deep breathing exercises and walking help sooth the body and clear the mind.
• Meditation encourages positive thinking. This is important because stress can often lead to negative thinking and pessimistic views.
• Drink more water. Even mild dehydration can impair mental ability resulting in more stress than you already feel.
• Eliminate alcohol and smoking when stressed. It inhibits vitamin and mineral uptake, as well as, interrupts sleep patterns. Smoking depletes levels of vitamin C and creates a toxic internal environment.

"People who reported high stress levels had an 89% greater risk of fatal stroke than people who reported rarely or never having stress." Journal of the American Heart Association

The holidays are over and it's a long stretch before your next day off. During the first few months of the New Year, slowing down is not an option. A recent poll found a higher number of Americans feel more stressed now than they did just a year ago. Living under stressful conditions on a daily basis can certainly take a toll on your body. It not only affects you internally and psychologically, but you may begin to show physical signs of stress such as hair loss and weight loss/gain.

Studies show nearly 80% of all health related problems are attributed to stress. Stress is a reaction to internal and external stressors in which all of the systems within the body are modified to meet the response. Common internal stressors include financial worries, concerns about the future, job stress, and relationship stress. Poor working conditions, abusive relationships, and response to physical pain are a few examples of external stressors. Whether internal or external, both stressors generate the same results. They weaken the body's immune system and may elevate blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart disease and heart attack.

During times of stress, your body works harder than normal burning up extra nutrients and weakening your immune system. Even as stress is deteriorating your health, you can't afford to be sick.

Give your body what it needs. The specific doctor-formulated nutrition in Extress helps replenish essential nutrients burned up by the body during times of stress. The ingredients in this homeopathic medicinal have been shown to naturally:

• Help diminish emotional sensitivity and mood swings
• Help calm and focus attention
• Help relax muscles safely
• Help reduce the possibility of stress-induced head pain and muscle aches