Would you believe that your posture is capable of affecting your inner hormonal balance? It’s amazing but true. In the last blog series on stress, we looked at the detrimental effects that long-term stress has on our health and the appearance of our skin. One of the reasons this occurs is the unfavourable hormonal balance that stress results in as cortisol levels rise and DHEA/testosterone levels plummet. Rebalancing these two hormones is an important part of becoming stress resilient and it is now kno[...]
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If you want to take the art of breathing a step further, try Pranayama. Pranayama is an ancient form of breathing exercise designed to calm the mind and strengthen your ability to concentrate. It also great for our health and is believed to purify the nerve channels and the blood and strengthen the lungs and respiratory system. It also massages and tones the abdominal muscles which is an added benefit. Regular practice is said to reverse the aging process and help maintain us in optimal health. I find[...]
It seems that in our modern world, stress is unavoidable however there are many simple techniques available to you that can help you become more stress resilient. Breathing and breath-based activities are one of these techniques, having the power to flip your nervous system from ‘flight and fight’ to ‘rest and repair’ in a very short space of time. The breath is a connection between the conscious and unconscious mind. It is one of the few things we can consciously control if we choose but otherwise[...]
When we are under stress, cortisol is an important hormone that helps our bodies cope. Unfortunately, because our adrenal stress response often overreacts, we end up secreting too much cortisol, for too long and this is what has detrimental effects on our health and our skin. If that stress becomes long term, then the cortisol levels continue to increase and our DHEA/testorsterone levels decrease. It is this imbalance in these two important hormones that causes us to gain weight, lose muscle, become tired,[...]
Stress is such a constant part of our day to day lives that it’s nearly impossible to avoid. So if we cannot avoid stress, what can we do to help our bodies become more stress resilient? There are many simple techniques you can use to recover from stress faster and more effectively. In this series of blog posts I will explore some of these methods available to you. The next blog post will look at the physiological response our bodies have to stress and the effect that has on our health and the beauty of[...]