Too much stress makes one sick

Due to the changing life circumstances and the resulting continuous psychologic burden, stress is among the most frequent civilisation diseases of our time. Incessant responsibility, constant time pressures  and hustle-and-bustle cause many people to experience their professional situation, and in many cases also their private life, as very burdensome. This situation can imperceptibly pass into long-term stress.

If you feel that this applies to you, it is important for you to know that:

1. Stress is a slowly-acting poison
2. Stress-induced exhaustion conditions have many faces
3. Stress is something different for evey person – but the symptoms are always the same

Long-term stress leads precisely to those diseases that we fear most in our performance society: cancer, heart attack and depression.

Creeping long-term stress leads to serious health problems.The ongoing state of emergency that persists in the body damages the brain and the heart, weakens the memory and the immune system, causes stomach pains and nausea, lowers libido, and causes weight gain and depression.

Weakness, lack of energy and listlessness are generally regarded as exhaustion situations. In many cases there is a massive lack of biologic substances that is to be attributed to stress.

Our stress check determines how stressed your body really is and what nutrients it needs to regain its balance.
We concentrate on the first signs of overload and treat them (burnout and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)). Mental power (ability to concentrate, memory, composure, mood, and emotional freshness) is strengthened so that you are better armed against stress and can aim for a reasonable work-life balance.

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