Some say that life is a response to stress. While that may seem callous it is safe to say that our responses to normal stress help keep us alive. Stress resulting in a fight or flight response is part of our adaptive process keeping us out of immediate danger and is typically short-lived and our recovery from it rapid. However stress changes when it becomes a day-in day-out condition without chance of recovery. The deleterious effects of chronic stress include reduced immunity high blood pressure and other cardiovascular manifestations fatigue poor digestion and mental anomalies like loss of concentration anxiety depression and insomnia. Elevated cortisol levels from over-amped adrenals are being implicated in the dramatic rise in inflammatory diseases often associated with aging in industrialized societies. Lifestyle choices are critical in dealing with stress and should include some form of relaxation. It is also helpful to regularly engage in some enjoyable and nurturing activity. Herbally there are plants called adaptogens that are particularly well suited to helping us cope with chronic and excessive stress. Adaptogens help the body to rebalance internal regulating systems and increase biological resistance to diverse physical chemical biological and psychic factors. The ideal adaptogen is non-toxic and non-specific in the sense that it increases resistance to a wide range of stressors and has a normalizing action whether dealing with excessive conditions or insufficiencies.Other products from HerbsPro