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That's a Stress Response
Stress affects every system of the body, including the gut – it’s no coincidence that gastrointestinal (GI) problems are one of the issues most commonly cited by people dealing with anxiety.
Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Disease, in other words, is not a simple result of some external attack but develops in a vulnerable host in whom the internal environment has become disordered.
Gabor Maté M.D. • When the Body Says No
Maybe you’re sick all the time: you have chronic pain, injuries that just won’t heal, or infections that keep coming back. Because stress is not “just stress,” but a biological event that really happens inside your body, it can cause biological problems that really happen inside your body but can’t always be explained with obvious diagnoses. Chroni
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We observe old people and see them age, so we associate aging with their loss of muscle mass, bone weakness, loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects. But these failures to self-repair come largely from maladjustment—either too few stressors or too little time for recovery between them—and