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with Dr. Marissa Heisel to talk about stress in our lives and what we can do to find more relaxation

every day. Marissa, thank you so much

for taking the time to sit down with us and talk about this really important topic. I know this is

something that a lot of people deal with in their everyday life, and we want to make sure that we're

giving them the best resources that we can to help them manage this. So Marissa, why is managing stress so

important? First of all, thank you so much for having me on. This has been a topic of huge importance

to me in my professional life long before I even was new of Dutera or was in Dutera. You know,

the reality is that about 264 million people in North America

experience stress on a regular basis. We know that stress, cortisol levels in our body rise.

That's something that I saw regularly even in my chiropractic practice. I had left midwifery and gone back to chiropractic, and I was doing

testing of patients. And I had a lot of pregnant women in my practice who were showing incredibly

significant signs of stress. And when I dug into that a little bit, one of the things that I learned is when

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