Our modern lives are now more toxic than ever.

Think back 50 or 60 years ago, and in comparison, our lives now contain very different demands and stressors. In our image-conscious society, there is a greater demand to change the way we look, to look, and be fitter. We place more pressure and stress on ourselves to achieve a social media-worthy lifestyle and even greater demands are placed on the workforce to work harder, longer, and perform better.

These demands and desires to achieve, have led to an ever-greater level of stress which the body experiences as a daily toxic burden. Our stress response system is put into overdrive, producing the same biochemical responses as would exposure to an immediate life-threatening event. However, whilst the life-threatening exposure-response is stopped quickly, the daily exposure to stress continuously drip feeds the response, day after day, 24 hours a day, leading to a chronic stress state.

Left untreated, chronic stress can lead to multiple health issues; an impoverished immune system, poor sugar management, obesity, a variety of inflammatory conditions, including CVD, hypertension, adrenal dysfunction, low libido and fertility issues, female hormone dysregulation, and mental health issues like anxiety and depression.