What lifestyle changes reduce stress and support healing?

by Maggie Jones

Stress creates an inflammatory environment where cancer thrives even while it suppresses the immune system. Your body can either be in “fight-flight-freeze” mode or “rest-digest-heal” mode. In order to heal, it’s necessary to turn off the panic that is so natural with a cancer diagnosis, and access the deep healing of our parasympathetic nervous system.

The body can heal itself, it just needs the right environment — one free of physical, mental and emotional stressors.

Below are some ideas on evidence-based ways to release stress and boost the immune system.

 

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