Stress without Distress

Stress without Distress through Nutrition

John Brimhall, D.C.

There are three stages of the general adaptive syndrome:  1. The alarm reaction, 2. The stage of resistance, and 3. The stage of exhaustion.  Dr. Selye made an interesting analogy to our childhood, our adulthood and then on to senility.  We have found the specific use of glandulars and cofactors to minimize long term damage and help rebuild past insults.  The glandulars to be used are adrenal to help offset the adrenal hypertrophy and later atrophy in the final stages.  The stomach substance to help the damage to the stomach lining, thymus and spleen to help replenish the diminution of those tissues and parotid because of synergistic connection to the entire process.

It has also been found that the parotid glands are important to tag other nutrients as we in-salivate them. The parotid is also quite helpful in the detoxification of heavy metals from the body.  Dr. Versendaal’s research has found toxins in the system of any kind and particularly heavy metals respond to parotid.

The co-factors that are necessary to allow for repair and healing are pantothenic acid in the form of (calcium and d-panathothinate), vitamin C, Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-2 (riboflavin), niacinamide, proanthocyanidins, along with zinc, iodine and chromium.

It is important that the trace minerals accompany the glandulars to allow enzymatic activity to be adequate.  Enzymes are the building blocks of our existence.  The major building blocks of sea water are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium combined with chloride, phosphate and carbonate to provide the general matrix for our cells.

In Dr. John A. Meyers opinion, metabolic disease and health loss have happened most abundantly from our loss of mineral elements.  He states depletion of our soils has yielded plants with almost no trace minerals.  Washing, soaking and boiling of vegetables further reduces the mineral elements.  We then discard our cooking water which further depletes our availability and the spring water we used to get deep in the wells is now no longer how we acquire our water.  The foods that we use to get our vitamins and minerals from have also been cooked, microwaved, prepackaged and devitalized further.

So not only should we add the glandulars to rebuild glandular deficit from stress, but also the trace minerals necessary to allow the body to utilize them in repair and in normal function.

Trace minerals act as catalysts and regulators in both the plant and the animal kingdom.

We are told that stress is the cause of many conditions of the aggravator.  Yet stress comes to us physically, emotionally and nutritionally in a constant barrage.  Any stressors cause the autonomic nervous system to yield stomach irritation almost instantly with the hypothalamus-pituitary action over- stimulating the adrenal cortex and causing hypertrophy and the thymus as well as other parts of the immune system diminishing in size and function.

The adrenal stretch reflex will show any stress patterns affecting the adrenals.  You can check any strong intact muscle and stretch it.  If it becomes weak, the adrenals need nutritional support.  The DSF of the DE-Stress Formula will neutralize that action.  Postural hypoadrenia will also manifest itself many times by the blood pressure dropping when we stand and or Rogoff’s Sign with the pupil dilatation to light, DSF is also indicated.  Any other adrenal depletion symptoms are a tip off to DSF necessity, such as a person getting dizzy when they stand.

REFERENCES

1.         Selye, Hans, M.D., Stress Without Distress, The New American Library, Inc., New York, NY., 1975

2.         International College of Applied Kinesiology, Collected Papers, pg. 21, Winter Meeting, 1977

3.         Schutte, Karl H., Ph.D., and Meyers, John A. M.D., Metabolic Aspects of Healthy, Discovery Press, Kentfield, CA., 1979

4.         Ornish, D, Stress, Diet and Your Heart.   Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Publishers, New York, 1982.

5.         Warning:  Hostility can be dangerous to your healthy.  University of Texas, Lifetime Health Letter, Oct. 1989.

6.         Campbell, T.A. Study on diet, nutrition and disease in the Peoples Republic of China, Part II.   Revision of Nutritional Science, Cornell University,        thica, New York, 1985.

7.         Sorenson, Marc, Ed. D., Mega Healthy, NIF, Ivins, UT, Page 370-392.