I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

Hi, we're so glad you're with us.

What we're going to talk about today is what stress looks like in your

life. Now I often look at her and go, that's what stress looks like.

Okay, for real. So we often say doctors tell you what to do, but nurses show you how to do it.

So that's what we're going to do today.

We're going to tell you what stress looks like and we're going to give you some very practical strategies to fight it.

So stress is actually one of the greatest

killers in our society. It's estimated that 30% of people who go see their

primary care physician are actually there for a result of stress.

So it could be headaches or tummy aches or in my situation I get tension in the back of my neck or I have trouble sleeping.

Right, but almost every disease including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, almost every

disease that we know of is made worse or aggravated by unmanage stress.

Now let's be clear, stress, you can't avoid stress,

but do you have the right strategies

to manage it and make it so that it's not aggravating you

because it decreases your immunity dramatically.

Well, an exposure to stress hormones is associated with depression and cortisol.

One of the stress hormones actually puts fat on your belly and has been shown to kill cells

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