It’s not the obnoxious secretary at work or the fault-finding cotton-pickin’ boss or even the driver that cuts you off in the highway that is called stress; these are stressors and how you react to them is what determines whether it is stress or not. In other words, stress is developed when you allow yourself to be upset or angry whenever unpleasant events happen.

There are uncontrollable events that automatically produce stress whether you like it or not. Some examples include when one gets hospitalized because of sickness, when a loved one dies, when there is a divorce or marital estrangement or when there are financial shortcomings.

In an emergency, elevation of cortisol and adrenaline is good, to prepare you to either fight or flee. Either way, your body will adjust to your needs that you may even become super powerful that you are able to do unusual heavy lifting or even run faster than what you usually do. This kind of state is not bad but when this becomes constant and cortisol and adrenaline become chronically elevated then you develop what is known as adrenal fatigue that you become vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative diseases. Because of this, 65-85% of all diseases are directly or indirectly related to stress.

At Rapha Health, stress and adrenal fatigue are addressed and subdued right away because success of treatment depends, more often than not, to correcting this challenge, which in most instances is not recognized and therefore not dealt with.

The program that is used to normalize your system is the use of natural cortisol to address adrenal fatigue, the use of Adrenal Power and Adrenal Calm, hydrogen peroxide and vitamin infusions to correct deficiencies; correcting hormonal imbalance is also addressed along with proper diet, rest and exercise.