Every person has a particular carrying capacity – or load they can comfortably bear without straining their vital energy reserves. Your carrying capacity is affected by a complex set of factors and conditions that change over the course of a lifespan, increasing or decreasing health risk. When the person's carrying capacity is exceeded, the body’s physical and mental alarm bells go off.

Factors to consider include the body’s past and present capacity in relation to:

• Physical, chemical, biological contaminants in food, air, water
• The emotional state of individual

Environmental Factors include:

• Chemical Stressors (organic and inorganic substances)
• Physical Stressors (temperature, noise, ions, radiation etc)
• Biological Stressors (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites etc)
• Psychological Stressors

Source: Krop J. (2002) Healing the Planet One Patient at a Time

Unmanaged Stress and Burnout

Stress unmanaged, leads to burnout - a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion, described as the gradual erosion of a person.

Factors include:

• Chronic daily stresses rather than unique critical life events
• Heavier demands in and outside of work

Aging and Resilience

Aging is inevitable. Yet, how we age is unique to each person and influenced by numerous internal and external factors. Cultivating resilience is a pro-active, preventative strategy to maintaining optimum health and quality of life.

Dr. Riina Bray, Medical Director at Women’s College Hospital's Environmental Health Clinic pointed out that the body’s aging process, compounded by stress and the “toxic load” we carry, accelerates as we reach menopause and andropause – the life stage where both estrogen and testosterone hormone levels are decreased throughout the body.

Lifestyle Management is Key

According to Dr. Bray, the lifestyle choices we make at this stage in life have the potential to help us shore up our health by developing positive lifestyle habits allowing us to avoid or postpone “the slippery slope” of aging and ill health.

Every day stressors and toxins in your system affect your ability to cultivate resilience. Determine your total toxic load by Taking An Exposure History , a survey developed by the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Once completed, you can review it with your family physician at your next visit.

What factors increase your vulnerability to the stressors in your life?

For a quick reality check on the stressors in your life, do the Free Personal Stress Self Assessment.

Lifestyle Choices Matter

The lifestyle choices you make affect your:

• Energy levels
• Health
• Mood
• Attitude and
• Your capacity for resilience.

Regular physical exercise, healthy eating, good sleeping habits. developing sound social support systems become increasingly critical to maintaining good health as we reach mid life.

Learn how life coaching can help.

Inspiration

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. Dr. Hans Selye, Endocrinologist, (1907–1982) Author, Stress of Life

If you think you need to get it all done before you can be happy, consider that on the day you die, you will have email in your inbox. Robert Holden

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