Primary Prevention to maintain health is an effective strategy.
Stress negatively impacts our behavior. We are less likely to exercise, eat well, or get enough quality sleep when we are stressed. Even people who know that exercise will help reduce stress don’t exercise when they feel too stressed. Dieters whose stress level increases go off their diet and consume higher fat and higher calorie foods than they consume when they’re not on a diet. Stress negatively affects sleep by keeping people awake fretting about their problems before they sleep and after they wake up in the middle of the night.
Stress also has a negative effect on health because it changes the biochemistry in our body. Stress increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and stoke. It also increases physical pain. The connection between physical health and stress is clear and compelling.
Changing our circumstances to eliminate stress is nearly impossible. Changing our perspective to minimize stress is easy when you know how.
In this talk, you’ll learn about the connection between stress and health. You can read the research linking stress and health here.
- You’ll learn strategies that allow you to reduce stress that will help you achieve your health-related goals.
- You’ll learn how to know when your thoughts decrease stress and when they are increasing stress.
- You’ll learn how to invoke the Placebo Effect to improve your health.
- You’ll learn how to avoid invoking the Nocebo Effect that can harm your health.
Primary Prevention to Maintain Health and Prevent Illness
Stress affects the body along many pathways including cognitive ability, digestive system, immune function, and energy that all contribute to long-term well-being or ill-health.
- Increased physical activity
- Better nutrition
- Better sleep
- Preventing obesity
- Preventing Heart Disease
- Preventing Type II Diabetes
- Pain Management
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