by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Over the next several posts, I want to tell you the story of my personal journey and life-changing encounters with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). First, a disclaimer: I hope that I have made it clear that just as there is no such thing as the “right” life journey for...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last post, I introduced the notion that stress didn’t act upon our immune and nervous systems in an entirely unmediated way. The flip side of the mind-body connection is that effective use of the mind can benefit the well-being of the body. Skills to cope with...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In previous posts it has been well established that the immune system is susceptible to the cascade of effects produced by stress, but what makes one person’s immune system more susceptible? Can stress have statistically measurable and quantifiable consequences for an...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Numerous studies show that stressors can have profound emotional and physical health consequences. Stressful events trigger cognitive and affective responses, which in turn induce sympathetic nervous system and endocrine changes that ultimately impair immune function....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The high correlation between early childhood trauma and chronic diseases has prompted research on the body’s reaction to prolonged versus occasional stress and whether it could be measured through biological indices. According to Steven Maier: “Research shows that the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The last several posts have explored the biomechanics of stress memory. Reactions to all stressors are stored in memory. As stressors are activated or reactivated, the previously conditioned responses are retrieved from memory, primarily by the hippocampus, which is...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the past few posts we’ve explored how sensitive is the neuro-immune system. This fact has been reflected by the large number of patients I see “wired” with generalized muscle tension which persists long after the initial injury. Many mechanisms appear to be in...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
My last post explained how stress memory could contribute to deleterious effects upon health. Research is finding that systemic or neuro-inflammation and neuroimmune activation play a role in the etiology of a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, such as...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The “stress memory” also needs to be addressed, not just the original cause of the stress. Although removing the cause, exiting an abusive relationship for example, will alleviate triggering the stress feedback loop, susceptibility persists until the body releases the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last post we saw how stress triggered cortisol and some of the deleterious effects of excessive, prolonged cortisol in the system. A less known effect of cortisol is its ability to divert blood glucose from the brain, in particular the hippocampus, to muscles....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In previous posts we’ve seen the importance of stress in the mind-body connection of good health. Our primary stress management pathway is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis that signals the endocrine system to release hormones. The HPA axis responds to...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last post, we explored the biology of the sympathetic nervous system. Among the things we learned was that neurotransmitters are released from the brain during times of stress, resulting in increased interleukin-1 in the hippocampus. As Steven Maier explains,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In recent posts we’ve explored the biochemistry of the nervous and immune systems, particularly with regard to how stress affects the mind-body system and can thereby affect our health. Now it’s time for a broader picture view of the body’s response to stress. ...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Uncategorized
A company cannot mandate an employee to take an experimental drug, they would also have to do the following to justify their decision, which is then challengeable: 1. A risk assessment under the Management of Health & Safety at Works Act 1999, as to why they want...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
The this is a, this is a surreal moment for me. When I think back to two years ago, this was not part of my life plan that’s for certain. I, ironically enough, similar to Dr. Danesi, losing her job over a violation of what she held to be her ethics. I’m...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
As promised in my last post, let’s take a close look at the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Neurotransmitters called peptides enable communication between the mind and the body through the SNS. The sympathetic-adrenal-medullary pathway activates the autonomic...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
By Dr. Angela Durante, Prof Denis Rancourt, and et al. Global Research, November 01, 2021 Ontario Civil Liberties Association 29 August 2021 Region: Canada Theme: Law and Justice, Science and Medicine *** Following their “Open Letter to the Unvaccinated”, an expanding...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In last post we looked at the connections between the brain and immune system. This led to reflection on the role of the vagus nerve and its role in this process. This led us to question whether it was possible to communicate with the vagus nerve so as to decrease...
