| Are you constantly feeling sick with flu and cold | | | | there are many forms of stress that can contribute to |
| symptoms that never seem to go away? Is extreme | | | | physical illness. Emotional stress, physical stress, |
| fatigue and low energy levels becoming a normal part | | | | psychological stress, stress from our environment - the |
| of your everyday life? If you answered yes to these | | | | list goes on. Regardless of what it is, stress has |
| questions then you may be suffering from immune | | | | caused the death of thousands of people every year |
| system stress syndrome. | | | | through physical manifestations of fatal diseases, such |
| Speaking from personal experience, I can relate to | | | | as cancer. |
| these physical manifestations of sickness that are | | | | How Stress Caused My Father's Cancer To Grow |
| caused by stress. You see, for years my father | | | | In early summer of 2001, I got a dreaded call from my |
| suffered the same daily symptoms as described | | | | father. He told me that he had colon cancer and the |
| above. He was probably sick three weeks out of the | | | | doctors only gave him 1 year to live. Regardless to |
| month with a cough, migraines, and with never enough | | | | say, I was shocked, and I asked him how this could |
| energy to spend time with his family. His doctor usually | | | | have happened. After a long conversation he opened |
| prescribe him antibiotics because he believed that he | | | | up information to me about how he had actually |
| had a virus. But in the end it was not the viruses that | | | | discovered his cancer six months prior, but didn't want |
| were the problem, it was stress. | | | | to tell us because the doctor said that with proper |
| How Can Stress Cause Physical Sickness? | | | | positive stimulation, and the STRESS-FREE |
| This is one area of health that researchers have been | | | | environment, he could survive. |
| studying very meticulously over the past decade. | | | | Needless to say, he explained that the last six months |
| When experiencing physical viruses, sickness, and | | | | of his life was the most stressful times he had ever |
| fatigue, most people are told by their doctor to treat | | | | experienced. Because of the discovery of his colon |
| the symptom and not the cause. Well the symptoms | | | | cancer, his business fell apart, his marriage dissolved, |
| are easy to pay attention to because they are right in | | | | and all of this stress, both emotional stress and |
| front of your face! If you have a cold then the doctor | | | | psychological stress, caused his cancer to grow. He |
| may prescribe cold medication. If you are developing | | | | believed that it was the result of immune system |
| skin rashes then your doctor may prescribe an | | | | stress syndrome. Because his immune system is |
| antibiotic of sorts. However, 9 times out of 10 these | | | | already weakened by chemotherapy, the added |
| symptoms are the result of stress and stress is very | | | | stress such as cancer into overdrive. |
| hard to detect on the surface. This is where immune | | | | Please, do not let stress take you this far down that |
| system distress syndrome comes into the picture. | | | | path. Get help before it's too late! |
| If you don't already know it, stress kills - literally! And | | | | |