Stress

If you have ever felt a knot or butterflies in your stomach, you’ve experienced the impact of stress on your digestive system. Dr Brad Leech is a clinical nutritionist and educator interested in complex gastrointestinal disorders. He explains why stress causes this response and how to relieve these symptoms.

Let’s set the record straight. Stress is a biological response which impacts your mental and physical energy.

When you feel stressed, you go into a fight-or-flight-or-freeze response. The main stress hormone, adrenaline, makes you feel energetic and motivated. However, as the adrenaline wears off, you may experience tiredness or even exhaustion, pains, aches, and headaches.

Acupuncture has been soothing stresses and needling niggles for thousands of years but what many people might not realise is that it can be used to treat just about any modern day concern.