Top Cause of Workplace Sickness Dubbed Black Death of 21st Century

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/10/06/top-cause-of-workplace-sickness-dubbed-black-death-of-21st-cent/?ref=mostpopular




The symptoms of stress are similar to those of someone in withdrawal from an addictive drug: finding it difficult to focus; losing your sense of humor; irritability; and shortened temper. Stress can also lead to under- and overeating, as well as smoking and drinking to excess. And in its most extreme forms it can result in stomach and bowel problems, heart disease and stroke.

"Cortisol, the hormone that the body releases under stress, is the strongest immunosuppressant known," write evolutionary biology researchers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. When Sheldon Cohen studied the sleep habits of 153 healthy men and women and then exposed them to the virus that causes the common cold, he found that individuals who slept less than seven hours per night were three times as likely to get sick.

Human beings haven't evolved to cope with the levels of work in modern society, they claim. For a healthy and long life, people should model themselves on our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

"If you hunt or gather just enough low-fat food to forestall serious hunger pangs," they write, "and spend the rest of your time in low-stress activities, such as telling stories by the fire, taking extended hammock-embraced naps, and playing with children, you'd be engaged in the optimal lifestyle for human longevity."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. And quite naturally there are ways to support your adrenals....

http://www.lef.org/LEFCMS/aspx/PrintVersionMagic.aspx?CmsID=39582

Natural Supplements to Treat Adrenal Fatigue

After an evaluation by a physician, if stress is determined to be the cause of adrenal fatigue, the first goal is to relieve the stressful situations as much as possible. Consider lifestyle changes, including diet modification and exercise. Limit the consumption of processed foods, and avoid alcohol and tobacco use because these substances put extra stress on the adrenal glands. Many supplements recommended for either Addison's disease or Cushing's syndrome may also be taken for general adrenal fatigue because they can help to support healthy adrenal function, reduce stress, and blunt the release of excess cortisol during stress. Consider the following:

Vitamin C, 3000 mg a day
DHEA, 50 mg a day
L-theanine, 100-400 mg a day
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), 1500 mg a day
Melatonin, 300 mcg-6 mg (at bedtime)
Phosphatidylserine capsules, 300 mg a day
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), no more than 1000 mg of glycyrrhizin

[midnight]

3. Thanks for this list... I have read about DHEA for energy...

But not sure about the Phosphatidylserine or Licorice... Will print... and explore...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Whilst this resource constanly gets hit for "selling supplements" you may find it interesting

that they are doing an Alzheimer's disease clinical trial in Florida as we type.


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[Celebration]

7. weird because phosphatidylserine and licorice

work at crosspurposes to each other.

Have high cortisol? Phosphatidyl serine is a good choice to lower it

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ps/

Licorice has effects of boosting cortisol levels.

http://www.adrenalfatiguefocus.org/using-licorice-root.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Something found at Pubmed re: Glycyrrhiza glabra

Food Chem Toxicol. 2002 Oct;40(10):1525-7.
Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) and the adrenal-kidney-pituitary axis in rats.
Al-Qarawi AA, Abdel-Rahman HA, Ali BH, El Mougy SA.
Abstract

The effect of oral administration of a water freeze-dried extract of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice) has been studied at doses of 100, 250 and 500 mg/kg in rats on the plasma concentration of cortisol, adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), aldosterone, renin, sodium (Na) and potassium (K). The results indicated that treatment induced dose-dependent and mostly significant decreases in the concentration of cortisol, ACTH, aldosterone and K. There were concomitant dose-dependent increases in the concentrations of renin and Na. The results suggest a strong and dose-dependent suppression of the adrenal-pituitary axis, accompanied by stimulation of renin production from the kidney.

PMID:
12387318

[Celebration]

13. Be VERY careful with licorice

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19707475

Liquorice has an active substance, Glycyrrhizin which inhibits the conversion of precursor cortisol to cortisone by inhibiting the enzyme 11-betahydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. When imbibed, liquorice acts like hyperaldosteronism which presents with typical symptoms including high blood pressure, low blood potassium, and muscle pain and weakness.

[Voice for Peace]

9. + Ashwagandha

[midnight]

2. Great advice... Take your naps.

[CrispyQ]

5. This is a great article & should be forwarded to everyone you know.

This especially stood out for me:

snip...

America is also notoriously frugal in its vacation time. We're one of only five countries in the world without legally mandated paid vacation time, and over a quarter of American workers don't receive any. We're one of only six countries without paid maternity leave (the others are Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Samoa, and Swaziland). We're one of only handful of countries in the world that doesn't guarantee any paid sick days. When 46 percent of Americans have to skip work from sickness, they lose the day's wages, and risk being fired.

Americans work more than most people in the world, 122 hours more a year than the British, and nearly 10 weeks more than Germans. And the U.S. economy has swelled, thanks to this labor, doubling in size over the last 30 years.

"We're not sharing in these productivity gains," says John de Graaf, the national coordinator for Take Back Your Time, an advocacy group pushing for paid vacation time and other worker protections, and the author of the forthcoming book "What's the Economy for Anyway?."

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Has your income/well-being doubled in size over the last 30 years? Yeah, that's what I thought.

I have family members who are stressed to the max. Overweight, too much debt, too little time off & their medicine cabinet shows it. It's busting out with little orange bottles. How much money will the companies they work for make off of them thanks to their increased productivity? How much will big pharma & the for profit health care system make off of them, as our system slowly sucks the life out of them? All I can think of is The Matrix & those stacks & stacks of glowing red pods. That's all we are to the corpos - coppertops.

Wish I could kick this dozens of times.

OCCUPY TOGETHER

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. There are those who hate this site... hate the "selling" aspect of this company.... just

hate it period. I feel that some if not most of the information freely available at my sig link is priceless. I purchase all of my supplements at the Vitamin Shop for those who have accused me of hawking for these fine people.

Time released Lipoic Acid (blood sugar maintenance and neuropathy) is almost 60 dollars at the Glucotize site, I find Jarrows Formula time release Lipoic Acid at the Vitamin Shop for around 15 dollars for 60 caps, 300 mg each.

Glad this article proved to be worth reading to you... hope it in some small way may assist your family members.

[CrispyQ]

10. We spend a lot on supplements,

ever since I read how little nutrients are in our food, compared to the past. So sad. Our food not only doesn't taste as good, it's not as good. But it sure looks pretty all lined up on the grocer's shelf, doesn't it?

There was a thread on DU a few weeks ago about the state of fresh produce. Someone said that a lot of it has been bred for uniform shape & color & that taste & nutrients are secondary. Wouldn't surprise me.

[trotsky]

11. LOL

No one "hates" the site. Spamming for a company is against the DU rules. This has been expressly comunicated to you when your threads get locked.

What do you think the reaction would be if someone posted about a medical condition, then linked directly to a big pharma page promoting a drug to treat it?

[InkAddict]

8. Thanks for posting this

Regarding the benefits and roles of supplements in health, I follow the newsletters here:
http://qualitycounts.com/newsletter/index.htm.

[Trillo]

14. "Pursuit of happiness",

or pursuit of stress?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Adrenal fatigue is basically burnout.

We've all been under unremitting stress for decades at work.

Doctors are scared to death to prescribe predisone or hydrocortisone because of side effects. However, if your adrenals are dead anyway, it's not going to hurt and you can probably take small amounts to help.

It's also tied in with helping assimilate thyroid hormone.

Start here: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com

http://www.adrenalsweb.org/

http://health. groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://www.faqhelp.webs.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

http://www.thyroid-rt3.com/

A dead thyroid feels like, "I need to sleep. I am tired all the time."
Adrenal exhaustion feels like, "I can't deal with people anymore. Dealing with people is stressful. I have hit a brick wall. I cannot go on."

I hit that wall in 1988 when I came down with pneumonia. I was young and my immune system was so compromised that when they cultured the bugs they came back as "normal flora".

The idiots in the hospital just could not figure that out. I crashed because my hubby had tried to nag me to death and it only took him four years until I had chronic bacterial pneumonia off and on for seven or eight years.
My doctor had to vacuum the pus out of my lungs so I would not die. Four times.