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I’ll try and redeem myself later. To the caffeine or sorry, the adrenaline will be there because of caffeine or because of perceptions of pressure and urgency, because we might be subconsciously worrying about what someone else thinks of us. There’s, there’s lots of reasons but essentially, it’s psychological stress. It’s not a physical threat. But when that hypothalamus looks into the blood, sees the adrenaline and says, Am I safe? The answer’s no, because adrenaline has always meant danger. So then it communicates to the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, we’re not safe, and she’s the one who then says to the adrenal glands to the thyroid gland, to the ovaries, were not safe, you guys need to now make the appropriate hormones for danger. And the trouble is, if we did well, if we if we only did that for say, three hours a week would handle it. But the way we now live is that for most women, they have constantly circulating elevated levels of adrenaline. It’s constant it’s all the time. So we are our bodies are always getting the message that our life is in danger. And that’s a big part of what I want women to understand. We’re so capable, but we have to learn ways to communicate to our body the truth, which is that we are thankfully relatively safe. One of the biggest challenges facing women’s health today is the way stress hormone production is interfering with sex hormone balance. Too many women now suffer with premenstrual syndrome (PMS), PCOS, endometriosis and experience debilitating menopauses, which can have both physical and emotional health consequences. These days women are often in a permanent state of stress – juggling their family, career, finances as well as a chaotic lifestyle. There are biochemical consequences to this constant rush – resulting in imbalanced hormones, HPA axis dysfunction, sluggish thyroid glands and so on.
Dr Libby Weaver explains Rushing Womans Syndrome. - Mamamia
One of the hormones driving this is adrenalin, which communicates to every cell in the body that your life is in danger. As I described in my TEDx talk science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,00 and 150,000 years and for the entirety of that history, that’s what adrenalin has meant to the body. The nervous system doesn’t know that the adrenalin amping you up is not from a physical threat to your life but rather your body’s response to the caffeine you drink and/or your perception of pressure. The way we speak to ourselves is of vital importance. Is the voice in your head a critic that is always telling you that you should have/could have done more; that what you did was not good enough; that you are failing? It’s possible to change that voice from a critic to a cheerleader that congratulates you on another job well done, praises you for being good enough and encourages you to take time for yourself. Get Support I’ve noticed a shift in women’s health and behaviour over the past 16 years. Never before in my work have I witnessed so many females in a rush to do everything. Tobe all things to all people. Never before have I seen as many reproductive system and sex hormone challenges as I see now. Recently grabbing my attention was a book written by nutritional biochemist Dr. Libby Weaver. What grabbed my attention about this book was its title “Rushing Woman’s Syndrome – The impact of a never ending to-do list on your health”. It is an excellent book that examines how constantly rushing and having a never ending to-do list has a substantial cost to our physical and mental health. Do you constantly feel overwhelmed? Are you always looking for more time to get things done? Do you feel like you have no time for you anymore? Are you suffering from “Mum Stress” or Rushing Woman Syndrome? Why is it that so many mums are feeling increased levels of stress? Where is it coming from and, more importantly, what can we do about it? The Rushing WomanWe rush around and do all we can to make sure that others love and appreciate us, so that we never ever have to feel rejected, ostracised, unlovable, criticised, yelled at, or like we've let others down. Yeah, my heart will race. And I don’t know what it’s about. So it might only be for 10 seconds, but I can feel an escalation in my heart rate. Just momentarily, and then it goes away. And like, no, I got it, I noticed. And so I’ll try and change, you know, might go to bed earlier. I might need to write, I write I love writing. So I might need to just write in my journal and get a few things off my chest too. So I can see the truth of something or, yeah, so it’s my heart will race. That’s my physical time. Yeah, The perceived need to rush is changing the face of women’s health in a detrimental way. From PMS to IBS, from losing our tempers to feeling like we can’t cope.Whether a woman displays it on the outside or keeps it under wraps, more are suffering. In this course I help you to get to the heart of why you rush, because it comes from the most beautiful place, yet the long term consequences are significant. I like to say this biochemical and emotional scenario is common but not normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. What if the symptoms your body gives you, what if the parts of your body that frustrate or sadden you, are simply messengers asking you to eat, drink, move, think, believe or perceive in a new way? It is time to see them as the gifts that they are. These symptoms can be wake up calls for women to make changes in their lives they may not otherwise make, enhancing their health, energy, vitality and greatness in the process.
The Science and Impact of Rushing - Dr Libby
The nervous system plays a significant role in the stress response and it has a number of parts. The two branches related to this concept are the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), also known as the amped up “fight or flight” response, and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the calming “rest, digest, repair and reproduce” arm of the nervous system. The challenge for too many women today is that they live in SNS dominance and this can play havoc with weight management, food cravings, sleep quality, patience, moods, self-esteem, and overall quality of life. The pituitary is the master switch of the endocrine system which sends signals to other endocrine system glands (adrenals, ovaries, thyroid) instructing them to make hormones. For example the adrenal glands will make stress hormones, the ovaries make sex hormones and thyroid gland makes hormones that control temperature and metabolism. None of them work in isolation, they all influence each other. When we are stressed, adrenalin is released by the adrenal glands (to escape the perceived threat), blood sugar rises, to give us more energy and blood pressure and pulse rate increase to provide more energy to the muscles. But as a result reproductive functions are down regulated as the body prioritizes its need for survival rather than its need to reproduce. Yeah, and it’s just repetition. So it’s, it’s listening to yourself, not and just catching that moment. And if you do that over and over and over again, eventually you create a new brain. Yeah. And you go ahead. No, you go. Each time you stop that. So if I’m running the tape of Mrs. Smith, cortisol is going through my body. And I’m and I’m in maybe I call it the rabbit hole. Where do you go? Well, if this is going to go on, then this is going to go out. And then this is going to go on and you start down like 10 thought patterns that have nothing to do with whatever happened in the situation. So as long as you’re running, running that old brain and you’re in that old stress pattern, you’ve got cortisol going up, and when cortisol is going up, progesterone is going down. And so now if you want to stop cortisol immediately, you can stop it by asking a different question and evaluating where that initial thought came from. Is that correct? When we live on adrenalin we tend not to sleep restoratively, crave (and give in and eat!) sugar despite our best intentions, and find it harder and harder to utilise stored body fat as a fuel, instead burning glucose. Yet when we primarily burn glucose as a fuel (instead of body fat), because it is our “get out of danger” fuel, the body can’t risk the glucose fuel tank getting too low so the desire for sweet food gets switched on… hello harsh self-talk when you give in to your sweet cravings even though you said you wouldn’t.The expectation that we can do our jobs with the same amount of time and energy that we did prior to having a family. The expectation that our homes are always clean and tidy; that our children are socially, emotionally, physically and behaviourally thriving (and if they are not it is somehow our fault) and that we maintain a level of physical attractiveness that society deems acceptable. Yeah, no, it makes it makes perfect sense. I actually had a I interviewed Bruce Lipton last week on my podcast. And he talked Yeah, he did. And this might be interesting to kind of understand some of the programming, maybe we got around being a Russian woman, because his belief system is that your subconscious programming becomes fully formed from zero to seven, that you are living in a state of more of a, of a hypnotic theta wave state. So the messages that get implanted from zero to seven will determine your behaviors for the rest of your life is the same with rushing do we watch the rushing people around us when we’re younger, and then make a decision of how we’re going to approach life and stress. Yournervous system doesn't know that the adrenalin pumping inside youis not from a physical threat to your life, but rather your body's response to the caffeine you drink, or your sense of everydaypressure.
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