Have you ever heard a sick person say, "When you have your health, you
have everything"? We toast to each other's health, and value it
tremendously. This is for good reason; the quality of one's life is directly
related to the quality of their health!

In the U.S., we spend 10% of the nation's gross national product on hospital
and medical care. We have more doctors and hospitals than nearly any
other country. One would think that this would assure our health, yet the
United Nations World Health Organization continually rates our population as
having one of the lowest general health indexes of any industrialized nation.
In other words, the general health of most Americans is poor. The World
Health Organization defines health as follows: "a state of optimum physical,
mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and
infirmity." So, good health is much more than just getting through your day.
Healthy people are vibrant and alive!

A big part of this health problem is that we've been taught to believe that if
we relieve the symptom, we have created health. Think about the different
commercials we see:

How many times have you seen a commercial where people eat chili dogs
and fried onion rings with glee because they just took their high potency
stomach acid reliever?

How many people do you know who have taken an over-the-counter pain
reliever for days or weeks at a time?

How many take asthma medications to control the symptoms?

How many are on anti-depressants?

None of these "cures" is actually a cure. These drugs make the symptom go away,
but do not solve the underlying cause of the symptom. When you stop taking the
drug, your symptoms come back. That is no solution at all! Yet we are bombarded
through television, radio, and magazine ads with images of "healthy" people on
drugs.

Our mission is to restore you to health. We don't mean just a lack of symptoms, we
mean honest to goodness health. We will also educate you very thoroughly about
how to maintain your health. Health can be achieved and maintained when your
emphasis shifts toward creating optimum function, not simply removing symptoms.

When people are under stress, their health can suffer. Most of us do realize
that we feel worse when we are "stressed". But what, exactly, is stress?

Stress is anything that causes your adrenal glands to release special hormones
called "fight or flight" hormones. They are called this because these hormones
prepare your body for physical action, to fight or run away from whatever is
stressing you. Unfortunately, our modern stressors are usually not a single
enemy that we can fight or run away from. Therefore, we tend to feel
constantly stressed. This constant stress can cause our health to break down.
If you would like to learn more about these actions in your body, I highly
recommend a book by Dr. Hans Selye called The Stress of Life.

In the United States, many people are on psychiatric medications to "help"
with anxiety, stress, and depression. These drugs are not designed to heal the
nervous system, so they do nothing to treat the underlying causes of stress.
They just cause a person to "zone out". For more information on the
ineffectiveness of psychiatric treatments and the dangers that these drugs
pose, go to the website of a group called Citizens Commission on Human
Rights, at www.cchr.org.

In our office, we deal with stress in different ways, according to what will help
the person the most. We also work to promote healing from the after-effects
of chronic stress. Here are some methods we use:

Nutrition: You need certain nutrients to stay strong and deal with stressors
more effectively. Many junk foods, particularly those with sugar and caffeine,
can actually cause stress responses in your body. When people crave these
stimulating foods, it is often a sign that they lack proper nutrition to keep their
energy up. We work with individuals to determine their unique nutritional
needs.

Homeopathic remedies: There are many fine remedies that will help you
through stressful times. We test each person to determine what remedies can
be effective.

Herbs: A class of herbs called "nervines" can work to heal your nervous
system, and ease the after-effects of chronic stress. It is best to have a
practitioner test you for the correct herbal formulas.

Acupuncture: Chronic stress can lead to blockages in energy flows in your body, and
these blockages interfere with your ability to relax. Acupuncture treatments can open
your ability to relax again.

As you can see, the methods we use at Natural Health Solutions do not just
"put a band-aide" on the problems of stress. Our methods actually promote
healing of the nervous system, working on the underlying causes of chronic
stress.

Contact Natural Health Solutions today at 770-817-8028 to schedule a consultation
and begin your path of healing!