Lesson 9-4: Anabolic Stress
This is the stress basically caused by worry.
ADRENOCORTICAL (ANABOLIC) STRESS results from excess reliance on adrenal cortical and gonad steroids (testosterone, progesterone) and somatotropin, the pituitary hormone that stimulates protein metabolism. The consequence is over-production of structural and storage proteins and fats is essential hypertension and elevated cholesterols. The cause is limbic system stress, the pituitary induces it, and this is just the way some people instinctively, following subtle genetic encoding, stress themselves.
These are the predictable patterns: liver, kidney, reproductive, cardiovascular and skin/mucosa excess.
HERBS TO COOL help to modify hypothalamus stress, lessen liver anabolism or add alkali to the blood. Unlike adrenalin or thyroid stress, this is a tough tendency to deal with directly...there are no direct deficiencies to stimulate. The deficiency is often only conceptual or philosophic...Life Span.
Further, like catabolic stress, there are social reinforcements... ”Look at the SIZE of that little tyke...a future defensive lineman for the Bears!”...or...”Bob sure is something...built like a linebacker but works seven days a week to keep those billings up!”. Nobody ever says, later, “Look at Bob, could’ve played pro ball...isn’t he macho, sitting there in the wheel chair, fighting his First Stroke...what a Trouper!”. In an Italian or Mexican movie, maybe...in America, never
Obviously, this cultural reinforcement is gender-heavy. You’ll rarely hear “Look at little Devon... what a HUNK!...gonna grow up to be a top scorer in Roller Derby!” More likely she will be put on thyroid medication, at least until she grows hips and a waist. You also won’t hear “Look at that big macha mama...works long hours keeping up her billings, yet looks strong enough to jump into the mud wrestling ring!”
Many anabolic-dominant women spend their lives battling their physical nature...big thighs, wide hips, and their currently unfashionable big butt or wide shoulders. At its most pernicious, this social degradation can manifest as a warped metabolism...anabolic at heart, with the superficial blood sugar lability and adrenergic stress normally found in catabolic stress folks. This is often the sequel of years of dieting and hang-dog exercising, not often enough for the admirable reasons of increasing one’s health and body-mind-spirit integration, only TOO often in an attempt to fundamentally alter one’s genetic reality (“Comeon, burn the fat off those HIPS, girls!...to the LEFT...two..three...four, crossover RIGHT and two...three-and-four...”).
Those that are genetically anabolic-dominant do VERY poorly when attempting to run on adrenalin energy. It isn’t possible to maintain BOTH stresses and live very long OR very well. Remember such cultural icons as Elvis, John Candy and Mama Cass if you need to visualize an anabolic person struck down by adrenergic stress. Remember the cliched reality of retired NFL linemen or aging HBP Sam Brown Strutters relegated to desk work at your local police station if you want to visualize an anabolic who never changes habits with age...or natural physical deterioration.
Adrenalin stress in a catabolic person can be maintained for a long lifespan (or perhaps it just SEEMS that way). Adrenocortical stress in an anabolic person CANNOT be maintained for a long lifespan. It MUST be modified by age and wisdom. Adolescent-like metabolic gonad-goosing wears women and (especially) men out. Since there seems little value given to those Elders that figuratively Can’t Cut The Mustard, adrenalin folks cook their adrenals more (long-living but irritable), and anabolic folks (short-lived greaseballs) can burn themselves out with their only native stress tools, gonad and adrenal steroids.
This sense of hopelessness as one grows older, with an obsessive denial of real-time aging, can keep people locked into the emotional self-goading of their spend-thrift youth, whipping a diminished physical reality in the hope of maintaining social importance. A lack of respect (or need) for the traditional value of the Elder (memory, experience, wisdom, and a knowledge of Important Things that are not of the realm of passion) may be a fundamental weakness of our culture. It doesn’t help to know this on a philosophical level if your emotional attachments still burn you out in THIS life.
Help by organ system or fluid energetics. I have no herbs to help diminish social excesses.
ADRENOCORTICAL STRESS: HYPOTHALAMIC (adaptogens reduce non-specific stress): Aralia (all), Eleutherococcus, Oplopanax, Panax quinquefolium.
ANABOLIC COOLING: Arctium, Medicago, Taraxacum, Trifollum, Trihulus, UrtIca
Here is the link to the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine Course
https://www.swsbm.com/school/
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