Stress never seems to stop. You feel upset… edgy… irritated… practically all the time. Your neck and shoulders tense up. Your brain doesn’t want to work or focus or decide what to have for dinner. And your gut keeps churning and bloating and generally feeling off.
It seems like you can never calm all the way down. And there’s a reason for that.
You’re stuck in a stress cycle, super-charged by faulty messages between your brain and your gut. That leads to perpetual feelings of stress, trouble sleeping, uncomfortable gut issues, and more issues you wish would disappear.
That’s why you need to take a two-pronged approach to destressing and promoting whole-body calm. And that all begins with your gut.
Stress Symptoms Can Surprise You
You’re familiar with the obvious symptoms of stress: Irritability, muscle tension, insomnia, headaches, stomachaches. They’re how you know when you feel stressed out.
But living in a long-term stress cycle can cause other symptoms that you can’t see clearly or that don’t seem to connect. Those include things like:
- High blood sugar
- Altered immune response
- Unbalanced inflammatory responses
- Blood pressure spikes
- Joint pain
- Sexual dysfunction
- Anxiety and depression
- Diarrhea
- Constipation
Breaking the stress cycle – and letting your body fully calm down – can help ease all of this stress fallout. But you have