Here in Macomb County, we experience the same types of stress that others experience throughout the world. When you think of stress you probably think of mental stress.  Did you know that there are other types of stress that are just as damaging to your body?

3 type of stress:

1. Mental stress: This can come from your professional life or your personal life. It is all of those things that you think about that make you not enjoy your day.

2. Chemical Stress: Drugs, whether they be prescription or non-prescription, create chemical stress in the body.  Medications are considered toxins to the body and create an internal stress or an external stress(side effects).  Preservatives in our food create chemical stress and pollution in the air.

3. Physical Stress: Falls and injuries create physical stress on the body, but did you know that repetitive activities create physical stress on the body.  Such as sitting at a desk and computer all day. Dentists create physical stress, working in small spaces holiding their arms up all day.  Stylists, holding up their scissors and blow dryers, on top of standing on their feet all day. Kids that carry a back pack full of books and parents that are holding their newborns and infants continuously.  These are physical stress'.

     When the body is undergoing stress, it will cause the nervous system to go into overdrive.  If this continues to occur, than your nervous system, just like anything else, starts to break down. When the nervous system is interfered with the first thing that may take place is tissues and joints get sick.  The organs start to malfunction, (have you had any removed because the malfunctioned?).  So then medication is neeeded.  Remember when you could eat anything you wanted and it didn't bother you? You could wake up in the morning and feel refreshed?  Signs of the nervous system being interfered with is that your body becomes tired and your systems start to fail. Your entire body gets sick.  Your immune system gets affected.  Until your whole body starts to function abnormally.

     You can focus on the problem, stress, or you can focus on a solution, more health. We will always have physical stress and mental stress in our lives. You can control the chemical stress to some extent, but you can't get rid of all the pollution in the air, or the preseratives in our food.  So insteaed of focusing on the problem, more stress, you need to focus on a solution, more health.

     A nervous system free from interference will allow your body to function at the optimum potential.  Allowing your tissues, organs and systems to create optimum health, physically, mentally and socially, allowing you to be the best you can.

Dr. Wilbraham practices in macomb county. Please email me directly at drwilbraham@comcast.net with any health questions you may have to see how I can help you experience less stress on your body with improved health.