New Treatments for Stress

Your body's way of dealing with stress is very biological.
Let's use a simple example: You are walking down the street and all of a sudden the oncoming car starts to cross the yellow line and is headed right for you. The driver is not paying attention to where the car is going and it is up to you to get out of the way of danger. You feel this surge of energy and you jump out of the way. Now to explain, the car coming toward you is the stressor. Your surge of energy, an adrenaline rush, is your body's reaction to that stress that allows you to get out of the way safely.
In biological terms it is all about stress and reaction. Adrenaline is what allows us to react to stress. Adrenaline is a hormone, but it can also act to gives us energy on a daily basis. The interesting thing about stress is that it has evolved. Until we became "civilized" stress used to be occasional instances that affected our survival like out-running a bear or fighting off a neighboring clan trying to steal our food. Now, stress is bombarding us from all directions, it may be smaller stresses like getting bills paid on time, work deadlines, family commitments, or stepping out of the way to avoid a car, but it is constant.
Constant stress requires our bodies to constantly respond. When your body is constantly "switched on" and it never gets the relief it needs, it can lead to changes in the levels of brain and nerve chemicals called neurotransmitters. These changes create a neurotransmitter imbalance and can lead to serious health problems like low mood, anxiousness, sleep difficulties, muscle pain, high blood pressure, chronic illness and weight gain just to mention a few.
It is now possible to measure these neurotransmiters with a simple test using saliva and urine. Send the samples to a specialized laboratory for analysis and we learn what the neurotransmitter balance looks like. With that information, It is possible to target therapy to bring the neurotransmitters back to normal and balanced levels. Balance the levels and the emotional and physical symptoms resolve.