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Top Benefits of Relaxation

Believe it or not, many people believe that stress is one of the biggest health concerns facing adults today, and we can’t say we disagree. After all, it’s been tied to some serious complications, including dementia and heart problems. CBS found a connection to stress and seizures; many people are misdiagnosed with epilepsy but find relief when they start practicing relaxation and coping techniques.

While you will inevitably find yourself buried in stress and anxiousness about your work or your personal life, there are some steps you can take to feel some relaxation. This includes terpene oil from True Terpenes! Contact us to learn more. Today, we are going to cover some of the top benefits of relaxation on your body.

Heart Protection

Stress oftentimes leads to high blood pressure, heart attacks, and myriad other problems. Because of this, more and more professionals are recommending that people prioritize their relaxation time. Stress is comparable to other high-risk behaviors and factors, such as a poor diet, no exercise, and hypertension. In fact, any intense and sudden stress or shock to the body—including breakups and even winning the lottery—can cause your body to release such a wave of adrenaline that some people suffer a heart attack or similar symptoms. When this happens after a tragedy, this is often called broken heart syndrome.

Cold Prevention

Those people who have chronic stress that lasts more than a month, but less than six months, are twice as likely to catch a cold than their more relaxed peers. The reason why seems to be inflammation. Stress inhibits our bodies’ abilities to fight off inflammation, which results in our immune cells becoming less sensitive to the hormones that can prevent inflammation.

Memory Enhancement

Some studies have shown that chronic stress can actually impair your prefrontal cortex, which is the area of the brain that helps control abstract thought, deciding appropriate behavior for a situation, and performing cognitive analysis. Stress research done in mice showed that small bursts of stress tend to block learning and memory function, which resulted in the lab mice were unable to remember their way through a maze that they had previously learned how to navigate.

Multiple studies have also found that stress tends to increase the number of certain proteins in the brain that have been directly tied to Alzheimer’s. This could mean that stress can accelerate the disease’s growth.

Stroke Risk Minimization

The University of Cambridge conducted a study in 2007 that showed those who handled stressful life events calmly and strongly were 24 percent less likely to suffer a stroke. Typically, this is partially because those who have learned how to handle stress well are usually healthy in other ways, including regular exercise. Another study in 2011 studied work-related stress specifically. This one found that both middle and upper-class men experience such severe psychological stress that it led to about 10 percent of all strokes.

Depression Prevention

Relaxation can help you prevent depression! Stress can kill brain cells and even prevent the development of new ones in the hippocampus. This is unfortunate, as the hippocampus is the part of our brain that controls how we handle stress. Mice exposed to stress in a 2011 study stopped eating, gave up while presented with a swimming task, and showed signs of apathy similar to that of human depression symptoms. These symptoms also included loss of appetite, sadness, and hopelessness.

The prolonged presence of cortisol, the stress hormone, can reduce the levels of serotonin and dopamine in our bodies. This isn’t good, as these are the hormones that are in charge of happiness. If that isn’t enough, stress has also been known to add to mood disorders. This is true for those with a history of bipolar disorder or depression; stress causes a relapse more often than not.

True Terpenes

If you are interested in learning more about the calming effects of our terpene oils and products, then please contact us today. We have about 20 products that have all been designed to enhance your relaxation experience. And, with all of our products being organic, non-GMO, and food safety approved, you can use these terpenes however you see fit. Contact us today to get started. We look forward to helping you!

 

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