Stress and the Brain

背痛 受壓徵兆 胸口痛 小便頻密 肌肉抽搐 失憶 驚慌病 便秘 肚瀉 失眠

背痛

受壓徵兆 頭暈 頭痛 吞嚥問題 作嘔 胃灼熱 胃打結 頸痛 慢性疲勞

受壓徵兆 皮膚問題 潰瘍性結腸炎 哮喘 類風濕性關炎 敏感

受壓徵兆 moody Emotion explosion withdrawn

受壓徵兆 eee Emotion explosion withdrawn

受壓徵兆 etc Memory loss etcn

What does it mean to you? 壓力對你有甚麼的意義？

STRESS IS BIG BUSINESS! 壓力是非常大件事！

US$200 Billion 二仟億美元

Brain makeup Chemical/Electrical Network

Chemical/Electrical

Network

Cortisol & Anxiety , Depression … chronic stress can lead to actual physical changes in the arrangement of the neurons in the brain 長期壓力可改變腦部神經元的 po 排

… chronic stress can

lead to actual physical changes

in the arrangement of the neurons in the brain

A person who survived the harzardous years of childhood was likely to live nearly as long with or without modern medicine Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.

A person who survived the harzardous years of childhood was likely to live nearly as long with or without modern medicine

Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment William C. Dement (from The Promise of Sleep

Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment

Stress & Hostility Omega 3 Tomohito Hamazaki, Toyama University, Japan

Depression Australia Omega - 6 Omega 3 Belgium Omega 3 EPA US EPA Depression UK (cell red blood membrane) 3 Omega (DHA)

The Immune System 免疫系統 Care vs Anger 關心與嬲怒 Immunoglobulin (IgA) 免疫球蛋白 Source: Freeze Frame, DocChildre

Emotional state has been known to trigger heart attacks .. With feelings of sadness, anger, and “control” (that is, how much control people feel they have over their lives and/or destinies) being linked to heart disease. P.63

Emotional state has been known to trigger heart attacks .. With feelings of sadness, anger, and “control” (that is, how much control people feel they have over their lives and/or destinies) being linked to heart disease.

P.63

Personality and Stress Person with autoimmune diseases Quiet Introvert Reliable Conscientious Restricted to expression of emotions (mainly anger) Conforming Self-sacrificing Sensitive to criticism

Quiet

Introvert

Reliable

Conscientious

Restricted to

expression of emotions (mainly anger)

Conforming

Self-sacrificing

Sensitive to criticism

Distant Overactive Busy Stubborn Rigid Controlling Pseudoindependent Personality and Stress Person with autoimmune diseases

The Biochemistry of Emotions

Nodal points Points that receive a lot of emotional modulation We have found that for virtually all the senses for which we know the entry area, the spot is always a nodal point for neuropeptides receptors

Points that receive a lot of emotional modulation

We have found that for virtually all the senses for which we know the entry area, the spot is always a nodal point for neuropeptides receptors

Angiotensin Mediates thirst Found in brain and in kidney 血管緊張素

Mediates thirst

Found in brain and in kidney

CCK Found in brain, gut and spleen Food satiety – makes you not want to eat

Found in brain, gut and spleen

Food satiety – makes you not want to eat

From esophagus to the large intestine – all lined with nerve, neuropeptides opiate receptors

From esophagus to the large intestine – all lined with nerve, neuropeptides opiate receptors

Cortisol, fatique and insomnia 可的素，疲勞與失眠 Stressful events in the afternoon to early evening will hamper a person’s ability to relax and fall asleep that night . 下午或傍晚太大壓力會影晌個人放鬆能力及睡眠質素 AVOID!

Stressful events in the afternoon to early evening will hamper a person’s ability to relax and fall asleep that night .

下午或傍晚太大壓力會影晌個人放鬆能力及睡眠質素

Mineral deficiency is a large problem facing most people today. And mineral deficiency relates to the quantity of life energy, or more specifically, electricity, in our bodies. How You Rot and Rust

Mineral deficiency is a large problem facing most people today. And mineral deficiency relates to the quantity of life energy, or more specifically, electricity, in our bodies.

How You Rot and Rust

Minerals are as important as, if not more important than, vitamins. Minerals are co-enzymes which help vitamins function. In the absence of minerals, vitamins can’t function. How You Rot and Rust

Minerals are as important as, if not more important than, vitamins. Minerals are co-enzymes which help vitamins function. In the absence of minerals, vitamins can’t function.

How You Rot and Rust

Good news … a powerful inverse relationship between stress and the strength of one’s social network – meaning that strong social support (from friends, family, and coworkers) can be a key factor in reducing the link between stress and heart disease; P.63

… a powerful inverse relationship between stress and the strength of one’s social network – meaning that strong social support (from friends, family, and coworkers) can be a key factor in reducing the link between stress and heart disease;

P.63

Level 4: intellectual progression Affirmation Self-talk

Level 4: intellectual progression

Affirmation

Self-talk

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr Union Theological Seminary, NYC, in about 1932

知止 而后能 定 定而后能 靜 靜而后能 安 安而后能 慮 慮而后能 得

物有本末 事有終始 知所先後 則近道矣

At 18 , you worry about what everybody is thinking about you At 40 you don’t care what anybody thinks of you At 60 you find that no one’s been thinking about you

1850s— 3,000/1 mil 1973— 20/1 mil 1945 97% 1940s Streptomycin 1950s Vaccination TB 肺病

人之所以健康因為 他們本身當初已 不易患病

Utah and Nevada 猶他州﹑內華達州 地理 天氣 收入 教育 城市發展 醫生病床對人口比例

猶他州 內華達州 成人死亡率 高 40% 肝硬化, 肺病高100-600%

Lifestyle: an indication on resistance to illness 不吸煙 少喝甚至不喝酒 定期運動 定時食飯 足夠睡眠 生活方式 –– 抵抗疾病指標 七千 成人 七年

It is, first and foremost, a healing brain. 它最首要的任務是 一個治療的腦袋

Antoine Bechamp microbiologist pleomorphism 多型現象 microorganism can evolve into various growth form Louis Pasteur microbiologist monomorphism 單型性 microorganism is static and unchangeable

Antoine Bechamp

microbiologist

pleomorphism

多型現象

microorganism can evolve into various growth form

Louis Pasteur

microbiologist

monomorphism

單型性

microorganism is static and unchangeable

Bechamp Microzymas – microbes in the blood which can change shape when a person is diseased Pasteur disease is sole caused by microbes or bacteria from the outside: Germ theory

Bechamp

Microzymas – microbes in the blood which can change shape when a person is diseased

Pasteur

disease is sole caused by

microbes or

bacteria

from the outside:

Germ theory

Claude Bernard – “milieu” –environment (terrain) Microbes will change according to the environment. Disease in the body is a biological process – dependent on the state of the internal biological terrain. At the core of that terrain is pH.

Claude Bernard – “milieu” –environment (terrain)

Microbes will change according to the environment. Disease in the body is a biological process – dependent on the state of the internal biological terrain. At the core of that terrain is pH.

Le germ n’est rien, c’est le terrain qui est tout.

Le germ n’est rien, c’est le terrain qui est tout.

Bernard is correct, the microbe is nothing: the terrain is everything. 問題不在乎細菌 : 問題在於土壤

Bernard is correct, the microbe is nothing:

the terrain is everything.

物先腐而後蟲生

Stress resistant personality Suzanne C Ouellette Kobasa Problem with studies on stress 1. High stress high illness

Problem with studies

on stress

1. High stress high illness

Avoid stressful events

Avoid stressful events

People are passive victims of their environment

People are passive victims of their environment

800 Telephone company executives (middle and upper level executives) stress illness 壓力 病痛

Age Income Religion Job level stress 壓 力 No Difference

Age

Income

Religion

Job level

High Stress More committed More in control Felt more challenged Difference

More committed

More in control

Felt more challenged

*know who they were Talk more about their values and priorities More in touch with their feelings Knew what was important to them Committed to Self

*know who they were

Talk more about their values and priorities

More in touch with their feelings

Knew what was important to them

“ The policy comes down from above – but how that’s going to work is up to me.” Sense of Control

“ The policy comes down from above – but how that’s going to work is up to me.”

Express more eagerness in what they were doing. Felt challenged

Express more eagerness in what they were doing.

High stress high illness profile 30 – hypertension, peptic ulcer, migraine Arrived 45 minutes late Trench coat flying out Papers in arms Call on the phone telling people where he’ll be for the next 45 minutes Every time phone rings he would get in Finally ask interviewer to speak to tape recorder

30 – hypertension, peptic ulcer, migraine

Arrived 45 minutes late

Trench coat flying out

Papers in arms

Call on the phone telling people where he’ll be for the next 45 minutes

Every time phone rings he would get in

Finally ask interviewer to speak to tape recorder

Support Social assets Boss support Family support

Social assets

Boss support

Family support

Social assets Not much difference

Not much difference

Boss support Hardiness + boss support important

Hardiness + boss support important

Family Support … most illness were those who reported high stress, low personality hardiness and very high family support.

… most illness were those who reported high stress, low personality hardiness and very high family support.

Religion Utah lawyers LDS lawyers better than non-LDS lawyers

Utah lawyers

LDS lawyers

better than

non-LDS

lawyers