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Seek Serenity and Decrease the Cortisol Signal

From Fight or Flight to Rest and Digest

  We are designed with an amazing physiological response to danger known as the “fight or flight” response.  If you were being chased by a saber-tooth tiger, your body would respond with a hormonal flood of adrenalin and cortisol, focusing all of your energy systems and attention towards surviving the encounter.  For a short period of time, your body’s priorities completely change from things like healing wounds, clearing toxins and digesting your breakfast to the much more immediate needs of survival.  Just a few of the physiological reactions include: blood sugar skyrockets, heart rate and blood pressure increase, digestion slows, and even vision and hearing are altered.  Everyone knows the signs and symptoms of an overt adrenalin rush, but problems arise when we are continuously in a low-grade fight or flight response. 

As Robert Sapolsky pointed out in Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, zebras are very good at stress management.  If a lion chases you, run for your life.  If you get away, relax and take a nap.  Zebras don’t worry about whether or not a lion will get them tomorrow.  They don’t stress out over their performance, beating themselves up because they could have gotten away faster or better.  They just forget about it and graze in the shade.  The point is that we could all learn a lot from zebras.

In my seminars, I go over some stress reduction techniques to be practiced, but one of the most effective nutritional strategies is to include Serenity 2.0.  Serenity 2.0 is a Chinese herbal formula that dates back centuries—and formulas don’t stick around for centuries unless they work very well.  Serenity 2.0 is one of the fastest ways to get the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis to calm down.  Some formulas block cortisol after it’s been made; Serenity 2.0 is an upstream approach by decreasing the body’s signals that tell us to make all that cortisol in the first place.  The typical way to use Serenity 2.0 is to take 2 tablets 3 times per day.  This will help to bring you out of that chronically stressed state, reducing your fight or flight response and giving you a sense of inner calm and peace. 

We’ve also had great feedback on other ways that Serenity 2.0 can be used with great success:

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• Take as needed when feeling stressed out or feeling impatient.
• Use right before bed to shut down racing mind to help fall asleep
• Great to take after waking up in the middle of the night if there’s difficulty falling back to sleep—and won’t leave you feeling groggy the next day like pharmaceuticals.
• Use when the kids are screaming and playing (just being kids) and driving you crazy.
• Great results reported in children with night terrors and even sleep-walking (tablets can be ground up and powder mixed with a little juice).
• Take 2 before driving home in rush hour traffic.
• Client with child with ADD and OCD reported improvements in focus and behavior.
• One client uses it before answering Facebook postings from misinformed fans.

Try Serenity 2.0 today and you’ll never let yourself run out—it’s that good. 

 
Instead of switching back to “rest and digest,” humans have convinced themselves that they’re always being chased by the saber-tooth tiger.  Being in a fight or flight response all the time wreaks havoc on our bodies, catabolizing muscle and disrupting various other systems like gastrointestinal, neurological and cardiovascular.  Sleep also becomes compromised and fat begins to accumulate around the middle.  The profile is of someone who is always go-go-go, a type A personality and is stressed and wired.  They may be nervous, anxious, easily distracted, and fidgety.  They complain of being irritable, easily agitated, and feeling out of control.  The more they stay in fight or flight mode, the more symptoms they will express.  Remember, fight or flight should be reserved for true physical danger and alarm, not for being late for work or answering Facebook postings.