STRESS

Did you know it takes 90 minutes for stress hormones to return to baseline after a stressful event?

Stress is a natural reaction to life’s challenges, but it is meant to be a temporary state to help us cope with overwhelming or threatening situations. Today, however, rarely are we exposed to one stressor at a time. Even rarer is the opportunity for our body and mind to fully disengage from the multitude of perceived and actual stressors we encounter daily.

Chronic stress is epidemic, and the cost of a persistently activated stress response is damage to our mental and/or physical health. The dysfunctional changes stress produces in our bodies, including alterations in nervous, endocrine, and immune function, have wide-ranging effects on every system of our bodies and have been linked to increased susceptibility to acute illness, chronic disease, and mental health conditions. Resolving stress and rebalancing the stress response is key for not only preventing illness but also for healing.

Synthera’s approach to stress management goes beyond teaching relaxation techniques and treating the myriad symptoms of a chronically activated stress response system. Our approach targets the core of your stress—your stress response system—and focuses on restoring balance to your nervous system and re-establishing proper messaging between your immune system, adrenal glands, and the stress centres in your brain.