Who Gets Sick, Who Stays Well

STRESS!  We all live with it and we cannot live without it.  The survival value of our body depends on short term stress to press our bodies.  This will determine if we are weak or strong.  An army that never fights a battle is weak when an opponent faces him/her.  There are two types of stress, eustress and distress.  One is the positive pressure that exerts itself on our daily lives that creates healthy, strong, vibrant bodies.  The other form of stress is destructive in nature.  A perfect example is exercise.  The chiropractic view of exercise according to The Chiropractic Textbook is a form of physical stress that is balanced and in perfect quantity and duration.  This stress is enough to give the body what we call survival value.  Too much quantity and duration of exercise leads to distress which is destructive to muscles, joints, organs, etc.  Dr. Meaney PhD wrote a paper " Stress and Disease:  Who gets sick, Who stays well.   What he says is theat although an acute stress response is both healthy and appropriate, if it is maintained in a state of chronicity it will eventually harm the host.  We are meant to be stressed for very short periods of time in order for flight or fight.  Stress is supposed to be accompanied by the increased physiological demands of fight or flight.  When stress becomes chronic, and especially when this takes place in the absence of physical exertion, the effects are globally detrimental.  Life is a choice and where we stand in our health today is solely determined by the decisions we have made in our lives that bring us in or out of harmonious balanced stress.