Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), Vicki Griffin
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000200
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:03 designed to promote good health and 00:05 is not intended to take the place 00:06 of personalized professional care. 00:09 The opinions and ideas expressed are those 00:11 of the speaker. Viewers are encouraged 00:13 to draw their own conclusions 00:15 about the information presented. 00:16 Hello and welcome to Health For A 00:50 Lifetime I am your host Don Mackintosh 00:52 and today if you are stressed you are watching 00:55 the right program because we are gonna 00:56 be talking about stress and some simple 00:58 solutions about how to deal with that 01:00 and talking with us about that 01:02 today is Vicki Griffin. She is an author, 01:04 she lectures at Michigan State University 01:07 in areas of nutrition and stress. 01:09 She is working on a masters' degree in 01:12 nutrition right now and has another 01:13 masters' degree. We are just glad 01:15 that you are with us today Vicki. 01:16 Thank you. You also work with the 01:17 Michigan Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist, 01:19 which is a large Adventist conferences that has all 01:24 kinds of members, but the impact of that 01:27 Conference goes far beyond Michigan 01:29 especially through you know different 01:30 ministries like yours and we are just 01:32 glad that you could be with us today. 01:33 You have written a book about diet 01:35 and stress you know is what you are eating, 01:39 eating you and that kind of you know 01:42 forms the basis and it's hard to cover 01:44 one book in one program, but we are 01:47 gonna try and take a shot at some 01:49 of the you know the points here and I 01:51 think people gonna just find some really 01:53 good information, so we are glad 01:56 you are here. And I have some questions 01:58 for you, we hear a lot about stress and 02:01 there you know people say they are 02:03 stressed out, but really what is 02:05 stress how would you define it? 02:06 Well stress is actually a term that has been 02:09 borrowed by the psychological sciences 02:11 from the engineering field and it's disequilibrium 02:16 or lack of homeostasis, but I guess an easier way 02:19 to put it is you are out of balance so that, 02:22 that is the. Out of balance, so when you 02:24 are stressed out, you are little unbalanced. 02:26 It's also been, it's also been 02:28 described as the some total of your 02:29 responses to the various stressors that 02:31 existing your life. Now you talk 02:33 in your book about emotional stressors, 02:35 you talk about physical stressors, you talk 02:37 about chemical stressors, you talk 02:39 about environmental stressors, you talk 02:41 about symbolic stressors and spiritual. 02:44 I understood all those except for 02:45 maybe the symbolic. What's the symbolic stress? 02:48 Well the symbolic stress, stressor is something 02:51 that would elicit a stress response because 02:54 of a memory for instance some people 02:56 that are very closely associated with 911 02:58 may never be able to see a picture 03:00 of a New York Skyline without having a pretty 03:02 significant stress responses as a result 03:04 to that, so that would be a symbolic stressor. 03:06 A spiritual stressor would be guilt over 03:09 wrong doing something along those lines. 03:11 A chemical stressor could be caffeine, 03:14 large amounts of certain micronutrients 03:18 could cause a stress response high-fat 03:20 feeding regimens, very large amount of 03:23 sugar things of that nature, drugs can be 03:26 a chemical stressor then you have of course 03:28 the emotional stressors and physical stressors, 03:30 a physical stressor can be either specific and local 03:34 such as a beasting or a broken arm or it can be. 03:37 That does stress people of. It does or you could 03:40 have a nonspecific journal stressor such 03:43 as an autoimmune response or fever 03:46 something along those lines. Okay, 03:48 so how wide spread is the problem, you know, 03:51 of chronic stress some of these are 03:53 acute stressors. Right. You talk like a beasting 03:55 on the end of your nose, but what about 03:58 chronic stress this long term stress how 04:01 prevalent is that. Chronic stress is very prevalent 04:06 in our society today as a matter of fact 04:08 one researcher said that the world 04:12 is suffering to a large extend from 04:14 generalized anxiety disorder, which I 04:16 thought was interesting, but experts estimate that 04:20 almost 20 million people in the United States 04:22 suffer from chronic depression, stress 04:25 related that had an annual cost of 04:27 47.3 billion dollars a year as a matter fact 04:32 it's interesting that, that psychological 04:35 factors such as stress and depression have a 04:38 greater impact on heath care cost then 04:41 physical factor such as obesity, smoking, 04:43 and high blood pressure combined. 04:45 So, stress is really stressing people out 04:48 not on just the personal level, but on you know 04:52 the level of government and how to handle it. 04:55 Yes, it is quite extensive. So what are 04:58 some of the common symptoms with stress 05:02 that we would normally encounter? 05:05 Well there the list is long, there are the 05:08 emotional symptoms that of course we are 05:11 all familiar with irritability, volatile 05:13 emotions and of course any of these symptoms 05:15 can be reflective of other disorders and 05:18 so it's very important that a person that 05:20 feels that they are suffering from a 05:21 stress related disorder check with their health 05:24 care provider, but emotional stressors 05:27 can include depression and agitation then you 05:30 have physical symptoms, you can queasy stomach, 05:32 changes in eating habits for increase sickness 05:36 and disease. There are behavioral and 05:39 social effects, job absenteeism, 05:42 perfectionism, ambivalence, 05:44 some of these types of things. 05:46 Isolation is at stressor and prolonged stress is 05:51 going to effect different people in different ways 05:53 depending on the magnitude, length and 05:56 timing of the stressor what they are on 05:57 constitutional strengths and weakness are 06:00 and that their nutritional status. 06:03 Well, I mean it's probably unrealistic to 06:05 get away from all stressors isn't it? 06:07 I have known a couple of people in my life 06:10 that were at the zero to one level, 06:13 which is an amazing thing but most people 06:16 would probably describe themselves 06:17 somewhere up between 7 and 10. So, I mean 06:20 if you get away from all stressors probably 06:22 dead aren't you? Pretty close. So, there 06:26 you know I had another person I talk to he says 06:28 there is distress and there is eustress; 06:30 there is good or there is bad stress. 06:32 Well stress is a good stress in itself is a 06:34 good thing when the stress system activities 06:38 is critical to human function that's what 06:40 gives us the energy to get out of bed 06:42 in the morning it's what heightens your 06:44 memory when you are about to take 06:46 an exam, it's get you ready for a race, 06:48 it's puts the enthusiasm and charge into life 06:51 and so stress system activity is a really 06:53 good thing, it's just that when it becomes 06:56 chronic then two different scenarios can happen 06:59 you can either have chronic hyperactivity 07:02 of the stress system, which is associated with 07:05 certain diseases or you can have chronic 07:07 under activity of stress system and 07:10 that has it's own list of wows that. 07:13 Now you talk about common symptoms and 07:16 then you talked about metabolic symptoms 07:19 what are metabolic symptoms, please discuss. Right. 07:20 Well I guess that's referring to the 07:23 long-term stress system activity 07:25 when you have it's really interesting 07:27 because there is a crosstalk that occurs 07:29 between the stress system and the immune 07:31 system and they, they kind a regulate 07:34 each other somewhat like a teeter-totter 07:36 or seesaw when one is up the other one 07:38 tends to go down and vice-versa, so a 07:42 chronic increase in stress system activity 07:45 and I am referring specifically here to a 07:49 specific stress hormone cortisol, 07:50 chronic hypercorticism, two high levels 07:55 of cortisol is associated with immune dysfunction, 07:58 hypertension, insulin resistance, 08:00 abdominal obesity, atherosclerosis some 08:03 of the lifestyle diseases that, that were 08:05 real familiar with premenstrual syndrome 08:07 and hyperthyroidism as well as 08:10 obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic active 08:12 alcoholism, chronic excessive exercise and 08:15 vulnerability prediction. So, all these things are 08:16 related to. Too much stress system activity 08:18 so the same token you can actually 08:20 have the reverse happened, where you 08:22 have too low stress system activity as a 08:25 result of being chronically stressed and that is 08:29 often indicated by low serotonin obesity, 08:34 increased vulnerability to inflammatory and 08:37 autoimmune diseases and we certainly do 08:39 see an upswing in those and recent years. 08:41 Atypical depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, 08:44 posttraumatic stress disorder, nicotine 08:48 withdrawal, atypical depression, seasonal 08:51 depression those syndromes. So all these 08:52 things, all these different things I mean 08:54 this a huge barras of different things 08:56 to honor the rubric of stress. Right. And in your 09:01 book, I am sure that you break this down you 09:03 look at some of these, you talk about some 09:05 of these, you say if this is what you 09:06 have and this is the stress element of that, 09:09 what to do about it. Right, we put this 09:11 book together in conjunction with some 09:14 other researchers and specialists who 09:16 have knowledge, specific knowledge 09:17 in this area and yes we want people 09:20 to understand how tightly linked 09:22 the stress system and the immune system 09:24 are and one of the things that 09:26 fascinates me about a stress system 09:28 that is gone a ride particularly heightened 09:31 levels of cortisol is that with stress 09:33 system activity is dysfunctional, it is 09:37 acutely tighten with a less of an ability 09:41 for the brain to generate new nerve 09:43 cell activity and so it has an effect on 09:46 learning, it has an effect on the ability 09:49 to meet challenges, the opposite of depression 09:54 is not joy. The opposite of depression is 09:57 actually resiliency. Resiliency means 09:59 the ability to bounce that means the ability 10:01 to have the resources to meet a challenge 10:05 and so when a person is chronically stressed 10:07 whatever the end result of that chronic 10:10 stress is it tends to create a metabolic 10:14 scenario for depression as distinguished from 10:18 sadness there is a difference, but depression 10:21 then it tends to lower that persons cognitive 10:24 ability to meet challenges. Sure you 10:26 stressed out so you just can't think 10:28 as well, you can't get things done. 10:30 You can't learn, you can't meet 10:31 challenges and that really sets up a 10:33 foundation for addictive behavior because 10:35 then you start to, to self medicate with 10:37 either drugs or food or some activity to 10:40 try to feel better. You just so kind a 10:41 beat down; you need something to put some 10:42 pep in your step. That's right. Okay so the 10:46 book and breaking down some of these 10:48 components your website is lifestylematters.com 10:53 to spell out and there on the website it 10:57 kind of breaks down these different things 10:59 and gives information about this. Well it 11:00 gives information how you can access 11:03 the resources to learn more. Now how the 11:06 stress effect nutrient, metabolism you talk 11:10 about that a little bit you know in another 11:12 words I guess when you eat something 11:16 or ingest something that's nutritious and 11:19 you are stressed out what is that 11:21 do to the ability to metabolize that. 11:23 Well are what we eat is, is if we eat 11:28 good food if we make healthful choices 11:31 nature has a stress protective system 11:34 built into those good foods that actually 11:37 protect us against stress response 11:39 and in several different ways. When you 11:44 have a nutrient poor diet, I call it the 11:46 chips, chops, and lollypops lifestyle 11:48 when your diet is high and refined junk foods, 11:52 stimulants, caffeine, lots and lots of sugar, 11:56 high fats that are poor quality fats, 12:00 that kind of things it actually creates 12:03 another attacks on the stress system, 12:06 it actually increases stress hormone production 12:09 and so when you are stressed, your body uses 12:12 nutrients at a more rapid rate and so 12:15 when you take in very poor quality 12:19 food it actually throttles up the stress response, 12:22 uses nutrients and stress protective nutrients 12:24 such as magnesium and the B vitamins at a 12:27 faster rate impoverishing the system even 12:30 more taxing the system even more creating a 12:33 scenario for cravings. So you have said two things, 12:36 you have said that the nutrient metabolism 12:39 is compromised by stress, but even more so 12:42 if you are eating junk foods. If you are 12:45 eating poorly, it actually makes the 12:49 stress response more sensitive in other words 12:51 you will be more likely to have a stress 12:55 response more quickly, when you do have 12:58 that stress response it will be higher and 13:02 it will last longer and it will do more 13:04 damage at the end organ. I think a quote 13:06 by Paul Rosch from stress medicine is 13:09 probably appropriate here he said 13:11 "A faulty diet can certainly be a source 13:14 of stress. Conversely, stress can lead to 13:19 poor dietary habits." So it's not sort 13:21 of vicious cycle that gets setup. 13:23 So it leads to it, but it also can be a result 13:26 of it. Exactly and that's, that's the part 13:29 that are lot of people don't understand, 13:30 they don't think about the fact that 13:33 when they are eating some junk food item 13:37 for breakfast instead of fresh fruits and 13:39 whole grains and some good nuts or 13:41 that type of nice high fiber plant foods 13:45 in the morning they don't realize that they 13:47 are actually effecting stress system sensitivity. 13:51 It's not just that there are not getting 13:53 nutrients, is it what they are taking in 13:56 terms of large amounts of certain micronutrients 13:58 is going to effect the stress system in a 14:00 negative way as well. So, the way nutrition 14:03 affects things, I think we have a list of 14:05 that we will look at. It really what you 14:08 eat is important says here that the sensitivity 14:11 of the stress-response. The trigger. Is 14:13 triggered. How fast the trigger goes off, 14:15 yes. And then how intense the reaction is 14:17 that related to what you eat as well, is that right. 14:20 That's exactly right and how much damage 14:22 done to the target organ whether it's 14:25 muscles, heart, brain all of those things, 14:28 the vessels and how long it takes for the 14:32 stress hormones to return to base levels 14:35 and that's a whole interesting question in 14:37 itself because studies are coming out now 14:40 showing that with the high fat feeding 14:41 regimen and we are not talking about the 14:43 good healthy fats that we all wanna 14:45 incorporate in our diet because fats 14:46 are good things, but when we are 14:47 having large amounts of saturated fats 14:49 and trans fats, the heavy high fat 14:52 animals products, the fatty meats and the 14:54 fatty cheeses and the chips and the 14:57 trans fats that we find in the refined 14:59 process foods, we have large amounts 15:01 of those kinds of things it actually there 15:04 is a quote from Journal of Physiology that 15:07 "Dietary fat actually acts as a background 15:10 form of chronic stress," causing the 15:12 elevation of several stress hormones. 15:15 So it provides an environment to just 15:18 potentiate stress. Exactly. And not 15:22 necessarily positive stress here negative 15:25 chronic stress. They are talking about 15:26 stress hormones because the stress hormones 15:27 at the base level when you are at your 15:29 commence they will be high, they will be 15:31 elevated, which means that your ability to 15:33 cope with challenges is compromised your 15:36 ability to learn, is compromised your ability 15:39 to be resilient in challenging situations to, 15:43 cognitively process is challenged and there is 15:46 another quote that follows up with this it 15:49 says a "stress responsivity is briefly 15:52 enhanced during initial access to the 15:54 high-fat regimens, so there is initial response 15:57 that is, is challenging but continued high fat 16:01 feeding results in an impaired ability to even 16:04 restore basal or normal stress hormones levels 16:07 after a stress response" so there is a 16:10 dysregulation of stress system activity that is 16:13 associated with poor diet and I think that's 16:15 important for people to understand because 16:18 when we are stressed we want to eat junk 16:20 food, we want to eat sweats and sugar, 16:22 we want those fatty chips and so how 16:25 important it is when we are not stressed 16:27 to be making the choices that are going 16:31 to buffer us against those challenging times. 16:36 We are taking with Vicki Griffin, we are 16:37 talking about stress, we are talking about 16:39 how you can get a handle on it when we 16:41 come back we will have some good news 16:42 about how you can get a handle on your 16:44 stress, join us when we come back. 16:48 Are you confused about the endless 16:50 stream of new and often contradictory 16:52 health information? 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Just log on to 17:39 3abn.org and click on free offers or call 17:42 us during regular business hours, 17:43 you will be glad you did. 17:47 Welcome back we are talking with 17:49 Vicki Griffin, we are talking about stress, 17:51 and we are glad that you have joined us 17:54 if you were with us for the first half you 17:56 maybe a little more stressed out then 17:57 you should be. We actually diagnosed 17:59 and look at the causes of stress, we are 18:02 talking with Vicki Griffin you are an author, 18:04 we are glad that you are with us, 18:05 you have written a book about this and 18:07 lot more resources in that book then we 18:10 can cover today. You know, we talked about 18:14 how there is chronic stress, there is good 18:16 stress, but there is chronic stress and 18:18 some of those relationships and you 18:20 were talking at the break about how or 18:23 just before the break about how nutrition 18:25 is kind of very intracle in getting the 18:29 handle on negative stressors in our life 18:32 and you know you had started to click off 18:35 some things, but I think we have a list 18:37 that we are going to be describing a diet 18:40 that would really stress anybody system, 18:43 work us through that and we will look at that diet. 18:46 Well, as I said it's the chips, chops, and 18:48 lollypops lifestyle that's what we 18:50 call it and it would include a lot of highly 18:53 refined junk food 30 percent of Americans on 18:56 any given day are eating a meal in the car 18:57 and so probably the composition of those 19:01 meals is not optimal and refined carbohydrates 19:04 the real concentrated caloric foods that 19:07 are stripped of, of good nutrition, antioxidants 19:11 and fiber, the saturated and trans fats, the sort 19:14 of stiffening fats at the cellular level and lots of 19:18 high-fat animal products combined with 19:22 very little fruits and vegetables and. 19:25 If you wanna be stressed out eat these things. 19:27 Yeah right. Let address some caffeine that 19:28 will help you. Right. To be stressed. 19:30 Juice up with some soft drinks and alcohol 19:32 annual tip you will just talk about. 19:34 If you wanna be stressed, you are 19:35 looking, how can I stress myself out 19:37 that's the recipe. That's right and some, 19:40 and really some of these food items actually 19:44 strip the body or diminish very necessary 19:48 anti-stress vitamins and minerals that are 19:51 there and we have to really remember this 19:54 because for instance magnesium is a major 19:56 anti-stress mineral is responsible for more 19:59 than 350 enzyme functions, we make our 20:01 way in little energy packets call ATP 20:03 everyday magnesium and several B vitamins 20:06 are essential for that process, a high sugar, 20:08 high caffeine diet. Just really take those out. 20:11 The high fat tends to cause magnesium 20:13 loss and it tends to cause disruption when 20:16 calcium levels are very, very high tends to 20:19 cause a loss of magnesium and 20:21 so, so it's a very, very important that we think 20:24 in terms of ratios with nutrition rather 20:26 then single, single nutrient elements, 20:28 nutrition is a three legged stool and what 20:32 we want to optimize is absorption, utilization, 20:37 and retention. Those are three legs of 20:39 that nutrition stool and the best way to 20:41 get optimal absorption of nutrients, 20:44 optimal utilization and optimal retention of 20:48 good nutrients is to have them as much 20:51 of the fresh food in it's natural form as possible. 20:54 Okay, so you are moving to what's good. Right. 20:57 But we have gone through the list of 20:58 what's bad all those junk food chops, lollypops and 21:02 what was the other things. Chips, chops, and lollypops. 21:04 Right and now so we have a list of 21:05 good things. Right. If you want to move 21:07 from stressing yourself out with food to not 21:10 stressing yourself out and getting yourself 21:12 ready to handle whatever the day 21:14 has to bring to you this is the list. 21:16 It would be a focus on plant foods just a 21:18 focus on those. Okay. Beautiful rich. Lot's 21:21 of color. Yes. And we call the produce department 21:23 the department of defense. Okay. So in the 21:25 morning instead of the coffee and donuts for 21:28 instance you could have a nice whole grains, 21:29 cereal. Strawberries, blueberries, grapes 21:31 may be yeah. That's what our family had 21:34 this morning for breakfast with 21:35 whole grain bread and good cereal, we had 21:38 some nice soy milk that we enjoyed it 21:40 very well, so lots of color, lots of 21:42 variety that are really good. So lot's 21:45 of color via healthful plant varieties. 21:47 Not jelly beans color, but lots of plant 21:50 colors all the beautiful colors of the rainbow. 21:52 Healthy plant varieties of fat proteins, complex 21:55 carbohydrates we have here and then vegetables 21:58 especially leafy green vegetables and 22:02 carotenoids. Yes, the carotenoids is a really 22:04 interesting study published in a Japanese 22:07 Journal it was well actually Japanese study 22:11 published in the Annals of the New York 22:13 Academy of Science showing that high 22:15 carotenoid levels, high serum carotenoid 22:17 level actually lower stress responsivity, 22:20 stress sensitivity. So, what's the carotenoids. 22:23 Okay well people think of a beta-carotene 22:26 they think. So, that's like the orange 22:28 vegetables right. They will think well I 22:29 get my carrot juice, so I get my carotenoids 22:32 but then. And that protection from 22:35 stress. Right. Well, there are actually 22:36 more than 500 carotenoid in the plant 22:39 kingdom and so all of the beautiful 22:41 colorful orange and yellow and red. 22:43 Vegetables, the green vegetables are such 22:47 a great source of stress protection it 22:50 lowers the sensitivity to stress responsiveness 22:54 and so the trigging is lowered and also the 22:59 damage done at the end organ is lower 23:00 that's a great thing. Whole grains, beans, 23:02 legumes, fresh fruit varieties and plant 23:06 fats and also water. Any thing about 23:10 any of those you want to talk about. Well I 23:12 love talking about that the fatty acids you 23:15 know FAT is not spelled BAD and the types 23:18 of fatty acids that we consume are so 23:21 intimately related with our biology 23:25 because the very cellular structure of 23:29 nerve cells and blood cells, the cells in our 23:32 body are tied up with the types of dietary 23:35 fats that we consume and so if we consume 23:38 stiffening fats those cells tend to be less 23:41 permeable, less electric, less 23:43 conductive, but when you have these 23:45 healthy plant fats that we find in the olives 23:48 and olive oil and avocados and nuts, nuts 23:50 are 65 percent monounsaturated fat. 23:52 When we enjoy those great fats I enjoy 23:55 using some canola oil, soy oil is a good 23:58 source of Omega 3 fatty acids, but you 24:00 can also get those Omega 3's in the 24:04 flaxseed and walnuts and. So when you 24:07 enjoy those they are flexible fats. Yes. 24:10 You are gonna be a flexible person. 24:12 That were they are actually, there is a 24:14 linear relationship with clinical depression 24:17 and a higher amounts of those saturated 24:20 fats when the cellular, when the cellular 24:22 structures begin to, they reconfigure with 24:28 these more flexible fats there are lower levels 24:30 of impulsivity not that fat, not that diet 24:33 cures everything. Right. But it makes a 24:35 difference, so you can have your brittle 24:37 fats and you are gonna be brittle person and 24:40 you could have your, you know, more 24:41 relaxed, hey that's interesting. We want 24:43 a diet that makes us strong and supple 24:47 not stiff. Okay why is an important to 24:51 control stress, what are some of the 24:54 reasons I mean we are talking about it 24:57 and lot's of people probably already 24:58 have an idea, but I think we have a list to look at. 25:00 One thing one of the most important reasons 25:02 that I try to control stress in my life 25:05 and I am one of this people that's naturally 25:07 kind of a high stress person. Really. But 25:09 I use diet and exercises away to lower anxiety 25:13 and control stress and of course my Bible time, 25:16 all of those things help to lowered stress. 25:18 Because it hinders your learning it says here. 25:20 Absolutely. And it impairs your memory. 25:22 Yes, it actually does because it's been 25:25 demonstrated that elevated levels of 25:27 cortisol in the brain actually sort of eat 25:30 away at the hippocampal areas of the brain, 25:34 which were involved with memory and can 25:36 end up with chronic depression so we are 25:38 looking at memory impairment, under high 25:40 stress, chronic high stress new nerve cell 25:43 generation does not take place in the brain 25:44 so. So you got to be unstressed if you are 25:47 gonna learn and if you are gonna remember things. 25:48 Yes. And you wanted to control because 25:51 you don't want to develop chronic 25:52 depression and then also physical disease 25:55 that makes sense, emotional deterioration 25:58 and loss of resiliency. Yes, depression is a 26:01 loss of resiliency and we have to remember 26:03 there are lot of stressors that we can't do 26:05 anything about in our lives, but the really 26:07 important thing to remember in studies 26:09 with centenarians is that they didn't 26:11 escape stress, they went through the 26:12 holocaust, they lost spouses, they had 26:14 sickness, they had many challenges, but it's 26:16 the way in which they approached and 26:19 thought about those circumstances that 26:21 made the difference. Now a quick summary here, 26:24 I just wanna look at really 8 things 26:25 real quickly here what important ways 26:27 to manage stress you have. Yes. 26:29 And you have exercise, you have water, 26:32 you have balance schedule, you have rest, 26:34 relationships and trust in God. We just 26:38 look at the screen, but let's talk about 26:39 little bit as we are closing up. When I 26:41 exercise I do so because I know that 26:44 exercise has been called the greatest 26:47 anti-anxiogenic remedy in existence 26:52 and what that means is that it lowers anxiety. 26:55 A 10 minute walk can boost mood or 26:58 improve mood for one hour and so I 27:00 really utilized this as a tool in my life. 27:02 I imagine that you know all these other 27:04 things are covered in your book in 27:06 detail and you have written an excellent book 27:10 all of these information can be accessed 27:14 by going to your website lifestylematters.com 27:16 and they can figure out how to access 27:18 this, but one last thing what about 27:20 trust in God, what is that had to do with 27:23 stress reduction. Well you know we 27:25 spent a lot of time praying for God 27:27 to remove obstacles and problems in our lives, 27:29 but for one thing that the Lord prayed he 27:31 said I pray not that thou remove them 27:33 out of the world but that keep them 27:34 from evil. Impulsive, we are troubled 27:37 on every side yet not distress, so God 27:40 has given us a lifestyle with his comfort A 27:43 and the aid of his sprit to help to grow a 27:46 more resilient personality and ability to 27:49 meet challenges. Lifestyle is a very 27:51 real part of his protective package for us. We 27:54 have been talking with Vicki Griffin thanks 27:56 for being with us and thank you for being 27:57 with us and we hope that you have 27:59 health as a result that last for a lifetime. |
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