BiTherapca Health

Whether stress causes health or disease, tissue deterioration or build-up, depends on the state of mind. When a stressful activity is accompanied by a positive frame of mind and good feeding(eustress), muscle build-up is promoted. When it is accompanied by negative feelings(distress), there is weight loss and if starchy food is eaten alongside(as is often the case), fat is built up, instead. In either case metabolism  increases, but in different ways in each case. Distress causes free radical  production which promotes further inflammation and eventually organic peroxide production which decreases immunity and impairs mitochondria function, and may lead to cell death. Eustress, on the other hand, leads to nitric oxide production which minimizes the detrimental effects of oxygen free radicals and promotes ATP production, even in low oxygen medium as it dilates blood vessels and supplies nutrients and oxygen. Stress, in general(both distress and eustress),...

Our reality, subjective as it is, is not what exists but what we have tuned our mind to. Studies show that when we are in a crowded room, with many conversations going on simultaneously, we perceive all of them but discrimination, that filters out what we don't want to hear, occurs at a much higher level in the brain, but not at the lower level, as luminous brain scans will reveal. It, thus, shows that what we focus our minds on will affect us. If we believe in something so strongly, that becomes our reality, and this will determine behavior and affect character. It, therefore, should not surprise us that different people will have different points of views on many matters. Most of these are conditioned by our personal life experiences which affect our thought process. Science, as an objective tool, will be able to establish facts in situations where different opinions prevail. So although how we think will affect our health, the good thing is that we can change our thoughts(sinc...