It’s not in your mind! Cortisol, the stress hormone, is a physical and mental health hazard. Chiropractors have been talking about this hormone for years and how it impacts health by interfering with memory, raising blood pressure, adding abdominal fat to the body, heart problems and other maladies. The chronic stress of our society: constant multi-tasking, deadlines, school/sports schedules – get people running at maximum capacity, and they keep running until they break or take a break!

Combat stress and cortisol production with the following activities:

1. Regular chiropractic adjustments

2. Regular physical activity

3. Meditation or prayer or both

4. Getting together, face-to-face, with good friends, ditch the tech!

5. Laugh a little or a lot

6. Listening/playing music you enjoy, singing changes brainwaves.

Our digital age is sedentary. Many tasks require sitting for an extraordinary amount of time. Many of us are developing the health patterns and diseases of over-the-road truck drivers where convenience food and sedentary lifestyle combine with high stress into serious health problems. The bright side of this new age lifestyle is that the fix is in the above six steps toward better health, and, guess what, none of them are painful!