Adapt-Strong

  Chronic, low-grade stress is a modern-day epidemic that creates sluggish metabolism, chronic inflammation, and abnormal immunity. Elevated stress hormone levels can create digestive problems and leaky gut syndrome, increased appetite, weight gain, thyroid disorders, and accelerated brain degeneration.  These are common findings in the brains of those with anxiety, mood, and psychological disorders (1).  Many auto-immune conditions have chronically elevated stress hormone production as a catalyst for this abnormal immune response (2). What is HPA Axis, and what is its role in your health?  The body processes stress through what is called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.  This means that an area of the brain called the hypothalamus senses the environmental conditions and sends chemical signals to the pituitary gland, which then sends chemical signals to the adrenal glands for the appropriate response to the environmental stressor. When an individual is under chronic str