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How Does Stress Become Illness?

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....

Early Childhood Trauma and Chronic Disease

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...

Summarizing the Stress Memory Discussion

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...

Muscles Standing “on Guard”

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...

The Ills of Stress Memory

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...

Stress Memory

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...

More on the Deleterious Effects of Excessive Cortisol Levels

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....

Inspiring Patient Stories Every Healthcare Provider Should Read

by Contributor | About Your Health

As noted by a study in the BMC Health Services Research, patient-centered care is implemented by providing customized treatment, sharing pertinent information with the patient and approved third parties, and nurturing a supportive and healing environment....

The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

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...

Implications of the Sympathetic Nervous System

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,...

The Body’s Response to Stress

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.  ...

The Sympathetic Nervous System

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...

A Letter to the Vaccinated

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...

Emotional Stress and the Immune System

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...

Implications of the Brain-Immune System Connection

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

In the last post we examined the early emergence of psychoneuroimmunology, concluding with the insights of Steven Maier on the brain-immune system connection. So how exactly does that connection work? Here’s what Maier discovered.   According to Maier: “your...

Early 20th Century Animal Research on the Mind-Body Connection

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

The last couple posts have been telling the story of the early history of diagnostics which recognized the importance of the mind-body connection and taking account for the role of emotion in an individual’s health. Here are the links to the last couple of posts...

Start Your Day with Optimal Health

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

5 Tips to Begin Your Day Feeling Refreshed and Energized Whether you are the CEO of a major corporation responsible for the gain or failure of your company, or the CEO of your household with kids running rampant and a list of never-ending chores, you still need time...

Unmasking the Symptoms of Dis-Ease

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

One woman’s journey from dis-ease to optimal health   Always being a healthful-minded, go-getter type of person, my career and family life have always been extremely busy. As an entrepreneur and mother of three, everything was scheduled down to the minute, yet...
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