12/09/2025
🔷Educational Snippet: Chronic Stress and the Importance of the Chiropractic Adjustment🔷
Even though the left pre-frontal cortex of your brain CAN inhibit the stress response by consciously choosing to act/react differently, most of the physiological reactions seen with chronic stress are under subconscious control. These changes are the body/mind's attempt to adapt to its environment rather than pathological disease processes and should be seen as a signal that change needs to happen. Change in the form of lifestyle/environment choices.
Physiological Adaptation Associated with Chronic Stress:
🔹Increased production of catecholamines (adrenaline/noradrenaline, epinephrine/norepinephrine, cortisol).
🔹Decreased serotonin.
🔹Increased heart rate, vasoconstriction, and blood pressure.
🔹Increased blood glucose levels or insulin resistance.
🔹Increased blood lipid levels,
🔹Increased cholesterol levels (specifically increased LDL, decreased HDL).
🔹Increased clotting factors.
🔹Increase muscle/connective tissue breakdown.
🔹Increased feelings of stress, fear, anxiety or depression.
🔹Decreased short term memory, ability to concentrate and learn new things.
🔹Increased sensitivity to sensory systems.
🔹Decreased immunity.
🔹Decreased anabolic hormones (hormones that build).
🔹Osteoporosis
🔹Decreased REM sleep.
🔹Accelerated aging.
If you have ANY of the above list, you are stressed! Rather than take drugs (which don't deal with the underlying root cause), we need to start looking at our lifestyle choices in the areas of movement (exercise and chiropractic), diet and our mental/emotional state through the lens of toxicity and deficiency. Are we getting enough movement? (This includes movement of our spines!) Are we eating too many toxinsAre we getting enough Vitamin D? Do we have a meditation/prayer/gratitude practice?
Network Spinal Analysis is one of the best tools in my tool belt for helping me maintain nervous system flexibility and reduce stress! Get on the schedule today!
~Dr. Kim
Health is a Matter of Choice, Not Chance!
Rhythms of Life Wellness Studio
1404 N Garden Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
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