564: Chronic Stress Risks and Solutions
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
If you have accepted chronic stress as a way of life, this episode is for you. Chronic stress isn't just a quality of life issue, it's a health issue. Remaining under chronic stress decreases your ability to burn fat while increasing your likelihood of storing it. Chronic stress impairs your metabolism and your immune system. It creates systemic hormonal chaos.
Stress is not meant to be chronic. If you are experiencing ongoing stress, day in and day out, it's time to create a change - for the sake of your health.
Just as important to note: stress isn't just mental or emotional. In today's episode, we talk about toxins, thoughts and trauma - the three types of stress that contribute to living in a state of chronic stress.
In today's episode we'll talk with Dr. Beth Westie about types of stress, the dangers of chronic stress and what you can do to reduce your exposure to stressors while improving your response to others you might not be able to easily avoid.
We'll also talk about the strategies we each use in our own lives to respond more intelligently to periods of stress and individual stressors.
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Chronic Stress - Types of Stress
- Toxins - this can include environmental toxins, toxins in products you use, toxins in food or water, etc
- Thoughts - worry, stress, negativity, complaining, gossip, etc
- Trauma - illness, injury, infection, recovery, over-exercising, emotional trauma
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Beth Westie on Facebook or Instagram
Listen to Dr. Beth's Westies Podcast
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Learn more about Transcendental Meditation and how it's improved my life!
Want to work with me to create LASTING change in your life? Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.2 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | I am Elizabeth Benton and I am super excited to welcome you back to our podcast. |
| 0:31.5 | I just love when you take a little bit of time to invest in yourself, but friendly reminder |
| 0:38.2 | that learning is not doing and that information is not transformation. |
| 0:45.2 | So in that spirit, I want you to lean in today. |
| 0:49.2 | And when you learn something new, challenge yourself to implement it within the next 24 |
| 0:56.1 | hours. |
| 0:57.1 | And even more importantly, as far as practice goes, when you hear something that is not |
| 1:03.2 | new to you, that you have heard before, run it through the filter of, and I consistent |
| 1:10.4 | with this, what can I do to practice this in the next 24 hours? |
| 1:17.6 | Okay, I'm a little fan girl right now because I'm bringing in a very, very special guest. |
| 1:26.6 | The moment I met her, I knew we would be friends whether she liked it or not. |
| 1:31.5 | And I knew she would be a fantastic resource for all of you. |
| 1:36.5 | I knew that you would love to hear our conversations on a variety of topics, but I knew exactly |
| 1:42.6 | where I wanted to start with her. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm just going to go ahead and say this whether she likes it or not, though this is her first |
| 1:49.7 | appearance on the primal potential podcast. |
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