Ep. 110: Relieving Stress with Dr. Tracy Freeman- Chief Medical Officer of BB&R Wellness

On this episode we are excited to share another presentation from our 2020 Co-Mindfulness Virtual Summit. We are joined by BB&R’s own Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tracy Freeman. During her presentation, Dr. Freeman breaks down the many different natural remedies for stress. Dr Freeman is an integrative medical physician who focuses on achieving wellness through a combination of holistic and conventional medicine mythologies. Tracy has progressively reoriented her practice to include natural treatments and a search for the root cause of disease.

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Show Notes

[2:22] Effectively, stress kills. When they study a thousand healthy men over eighteen years, what they found is that men who had less than two episodes of stressful events per year, they did OK. But if you had three or more, which three was a moderate amount of stress, or up to six some people had, the mortality for all of those people was increased.
[2:54] If you are able to maintain a balance and not an overactive stress response, you're more than likely live longer.
[4:05] The body keeps score. So even though you're not in a stressful event right now, it's easy for your body to maintain stressful habits, effectively become hyper vigilant. So even though something horrible happened two years ago, you haven't trained your body to come out of that situation. It's about moving along and telling your body that we're safe, we're OK.
[4:42] Inflammation is the basis of disease.
[4:45] Chronic stress basically will change your genes. So that affects you on a cellular level. And this is the basis of how stress leads to inflammation leads to disease.
[11:19] The fight or flight response is something that gets your blood sugar up and running. And in this case, if we kind of blunt that effect, your blood sugar will stay normal.
[12:46] We have the system called the endocannabinoid system in the brain and all of us have that. And it turns out pretty much all the animals have it as well. So on some level, we're designed for this.
[13:52] Zinc is a very nice mood balance or in some cases.
[17:10] The more you need it to feel happy, it doesn't make you feel sleepy.
[19:14] Chamomile is well known to be calming. The only thing about Chamomile, it's been found that it's not something you want to take all the time, you need to give your body a break from it.
[21:31] As we go into adrenal fatigue, we’ll start to take back the progesterone that helped to create and use it. So then you have estrogen and progesterone are meant to kind of live in a balance. But without that, the estrogen, it's not that it's too much, but it's just a more dominant hormone. So you want to bring that back by working on your adrenal glands.
[22:03] It's important to bring balance into your system.
[22:23] Testosterone, too, has gotten a bad rap, but it looks like the latest data on it is showing that it's cardio-protective as opposed to causing heart attacks. Estrogen stimulates the production and transport of serotonin, estrogen being the main female hormone. So that is going to be important for keeping serotonin your happy hormone in place and moving and doing as it's supposed to.
[22:48] Thyroid always comes into consideration. It's a master gland. So whether it's hyper or hypothyroidism, it does affect mood. It does affect your sense of balance across the board and can definitely in the hyper thyroid realm cause anxiety and in the hypo thyroid realm cause of depression.
[26:04] The body is one unit. So the brain has an impact on the body and the body has an impact on the brain.
[26:31] If you can settle your body, there's probably nothing better than meditation.
[26:55] If you can inhale longer than you can exhale, then your body knows you're not in a state of distress.
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“Chronic stress basically will change your genes. So that affects you on a cellular level. And this is the basis of how stress leads to inflammation leads to disease.” - Dr. Tracy Freeman
“If you are able to maintain a balance and not [have] an overactive stress response, you're more likely to live longer.” - Dr. Tracy Freeman
“The body keeps score. So even though you're not in a stressful event right now, it's easy for your body to maintain stressful habits, effectively become hyper vigilant. So even though something horrible happened two years ago, you haven't trained your body to come out of that situation. It's about moving along and telling your body that we're safe, we're OK.” - Dr. Tracy Freeman

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