Yanaroot Art of Health, 608 Baker Street, Nelson, BC (2026)

03/18/2024

Stress is vital for a healthy life, it's not all bad.

There are some stressors which are considered "good stress", or eustress, like the type you feel when you are elated, excited. When you have this experience, your pulse becomes more rapid, hormones surge, and many parts of the brain and body are stimulated in a positive way.

On the other hand, "bad stress", or stress that becomes chronic has a negative impact on our health and wellbeing. It can feel like the gas pedal is stuck to the ground and you no longer have any control inside your own mind and body.

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03/12/2024

It always feels shocking to me how biomedicine can be so slow to catch up. While there were hints of this concept in modern medicine for the past 20 years, this concept has been around in TCM for thousands of years.

Did you know that our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts evolved with their own nervous systems, which we call the "Enteric Nervous System"? It is often suggested by functional medicine practitioners that this is actually the primary 'brain' because it evolved before the brain and spinal cord.

Have you ever been so stressed out suddenly that you lose your appetite, or have loose bowels? This is an obvious relationship between the stress response on our gut-brain axis. It would be pretty inconvenient if you had to p**p while you were running from a tiger, don't you think?

It seems obvious that what happens in our guts is vital to our survival, and thus the entire body needs to be aware.

For example, if our digestive system is empty it is important that our brain sends signals of hunger so that we feed ourselves. Or if there is a problem with the processing of what we ingest, we need to be made aware so that we can fix the problem.

Stress is known to influence the permeability of intestinal lining; this means that bacteria can have easier access to places they shouldn't be.

A study done using food-borne pathogens provided evidence that bacteria in the intestines can activate stress circuits by directly activating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is the longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system that runs from the brain to the large intestine. It is the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system (rest, digest, safety, and energy conservation).

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It's important to remember that the microbes were here before humans existed, so we have evolved with these 'friends with benefits' – John Cryan (professor of anatomy and neuroscience)
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02/29/2024

Preventative care is the gold standard. The choices you make every day matter!

TCM emphasizes “prevention before disease and prevention of disease exacerbation”.

How are you choosing to take care of yourself? What does your prophylactic self-care routine look like? If your healthcare practitioner isn't asking you about these things, you need to find a new practitioner!!

I spoke with an MD recently who strongly believes that treatment outperforms prevention, adding that people are more willing to pay for treatment than invest in prevention.

It was hard to hear. It felt like a statement that steals power from people, that leaves them relying on someone else to save them. If you have been to any medical clinic recently in BC, you've probably noticed that you will be waiting a long time for someone to save you.

Prevention is grossly underfunded when compared to treatment, at least here in Canada. But there are choices we make daily that could be considered prevention, like the things we consume (food, drink, to***co, drugs), or the way we move our bodies, or how we choose to engage our minds.

Prevention through self care is the best kind of medicine.

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02/23/2024

In most circumstances its not about what is actually happening that keeps us where we are.. Its the self-blame, the fear of being vulnerable, guilt, shame, the thought of instability - all the potential pain we associate with what we want, consciously or subconsciously - that keep us in the same cycles, with the same people, the same cravings, the same patterns, and the same frustrations, even though we are whole-heartedly wanting something different.

Dwelling on the past means resisting the opportunity to live beyond the limiting walls of our pain boxes.

Let's dwell deeply in the present, just for a moment. Try it on for size, and then try another.

The present looks good on you ♡

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