Kamilah StevensonCEO, Healthy And Better · Health & Wellness Coach | Degreed Counselor | Published Author | Helping People Achieve Holistic Wellness

Chronic stress and pain can drain your energy #MentalHealth #ChronicFatigue #StressRelief #SleepWell

1 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains how chronic stress, chronic fatigue, pain, and disease can impair mitochondrial function, which in turn disrupts sleep, hampers the parasympathetic (rest‑and‑digest) system, and compromises gut nutrient absorption. The speaker emphasizes that even a well‑balanced diet cannot compensate if mitochondria are dysfunctional, leading to a cascade of energy deficits and health complications. To counteract this, the speaker recommends a practical intervention: performing about 30 minutes of Zone 2 aerobic training each day (approximately 160 minutes per week) to boost mitochondrial efficiency and restore energy levels.

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when your energy levels are compromised, when you're dealing with chronic stress and chronic fatigue and pain and disease and all kind of problems with your brain and not being able to sleep at night even, because a lot of times your mitochondria will affect your sleep at night. And if you don't get enough proper sleep, you can't recover, you can't restore, you can't be in the parasympathetic system, which is the recovery system, the rest and digest system. That means that sometimes your gut is compromised. You absorb nutrients right. It doesn't matter how well you even eat, your body won't absorb nutrients right, and this causes complications. So I'm telling you, this thing is massive when we're talking about your energy levels and your mitochondrial functionality. You need to be able to do things to boost this, and just simply doing 30 minutes a day of Zone 2 training, or 160 minutes a week, however you want to load up on this, can help