Dr. Levine presents different factors that interrupt normal nerve function
Video Transcript – What Interferes with Nerve Impulses
Nerve impulses, life energy is affected by stress. Stress is huge. We think of stress generally in something that’s bothering us or that we’re thinking about. Stress comes in three forms. It’s physical, it’s chemical, it’s emotional. Many of us have all three forms in play. Those three forms of stress will breakdown the nervous system. Increases the adrenal function. Increases blood pressure. Increases cortisol into the system, and that will break down neural function and your immune system. It’s important that we identify the stresses.
Here in the office, not only are we dealing with the effects of stress which might be neck pain, back pain, headaches, but we’re also identifying the causes of that stress. Maybe it’s poor diet. Maybe it’s lack of exercises which is probably number one. Maybe it’s an old injury or fall that wasn’t treated properly. Family stress especially around the holidays. Financial stress.
Either you live within your means or you don’t. There’s many people, regardless of their income, that have a great deal of stress and has no bearing on the dollar amount. It’s how they manage it. Emotional, physical, chemical stresses. That’s why our job is to get to the cause of the problem. Not just functionally, but on an emotional level, physical and chemical level.
There is good stress. Stress forces us to wake up every day and make a difference in society. The time I spent working with Seton Hall University and their basketball team, there was stress every time there was a tournament game. It was stress before each game. When that bell rang at the end and the two hands were over, the stress was over until we prepared for the next game. In sports, there’s stress. In life, there’s stress, but that forces us to produce and it forces us to rise to the occasion. Sometimes, we need to get uncomfortable in ourselves to grow to the next level.
