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Your Adrenals and Preventing Stress During the Holidays with Pharmacist Baylor Rice
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Your Adrenals and Preventing Stress During the Holidays with Pharmacist Baylor Rice
When:
December 7th, 2022
From 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST
Are you interested in learning more about Adrenal Health & Stress Prevention? Learn what patients are taking and why? Save your spot for a free virtual webinar event on December 7th held by expert associate pharmacist Baylor Rice, R.Ph. to learn the kind of supplements that help address stress and prevent your adrenal glands from getting overworked, along with a personal Q&A session where you can have all of your questions answered by experts.
Sign up today to hear our associate pharmacist Baylor Rice, R.Ph., FIACP, Clinical Liaison discuss:
- What supplements you should be taking every day for Optimal Health. From adolescence through adulthood.
- Why quality is important.
- Bring your questions as we will have a Q & A session.
What are the Adrenal Glands and their role with Stress?
You may have heard of the adrenal glands with its well known stress related hormone, adrenaline, also known as epinephrine.
For a start, our stress response known as the flight or fight response is activated by our brains: “After the amygdala sends a distress signal, the hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system by sending signals through the autonomic nerves to the adrenal glands. These glands respond by pumping the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) into the bloodstream.”
Source: Understanding the stress response – Harvard Health
But your adrenal glands do more than that,
“Adrenal glands produce hormones that help regulate your metabolism, immune system, blood pressure, response to stress and other essential functions.”
Source: Adrenal Glands | Johns Hopkins Medicine
When you get into the fight and flight response, the hormones relating to stress can have differing effects on your body such as:
- “Heart rate. Your heart beats faster to bring oxygen to your major muscles. During freezing, your heart rate might increase or decrease.
- Lungs. Your breathing speeds up to deliver more oxygen to your blood. In the freeze response, you might hold your breath or restrict breathing.
- Eyes. Your peripheral vision increases so you can notice your surroundings. Your pupils dilate and let in more light, which helps you see better.
- Ears. Your ears “perk up” and your hearing becomes sharper.
- Blood. Blood thickens, which increases clotting factors. This prepares your body for injury.
- Skin. Your skin might produce more sweat or get cold. You may look pale or have goosebumps.
- Hands and feet. As blood flow increases to your major muscles, your hands and feet might get cold.
- Pain perception. Fight-or-flight temporarily reduces your perception of pain.”
Source: Fight, Flight, or Freeze: How We Respond to Threats, Healthline
Chronic Stress Chronically Overworks the Adrenal Glands
Being constantly in the flight or fight response or activating it often can exhaust us. It’s a good idea to explore all options and methods in addressing and even preventing stress. Join us in the webinar for some of the best practices on supplementing overall health.
Ask your doctor about getting a prescription and we can guide you through the process, step-by-step.
What are the Most Common Nutritional Vitamins and Supplements?
Our team takes pride in providing the best nutritional products on the market. We make sure to provide the necessary information and education to our patients and their medical providers as needed. Explore some of our best sellers and make an order today. If you’re already a patient, simply ask us to include them in your next pickup.
