Dr. Herb's Solutions to the Root Causes of Stress

Book excerpt: This book explores the root causes of stress and offers solutions and alternatives to resorting to medications. It discusses multi-faceted aspects of stress: physical, emotional, and spiritual. It examines stresses found in child and parental relationships, societal stress and suicides, and stress due to working conditions and sleep deprivation. It also focuses on food choices and how allergic sensitivities play a part in the development of stress, as well as the role that GMOs, pollution, soil depletion, the EPA, and toxins play in the development of stress. This book offers a way to rate your own stress numerically based on work and lifestyle, and suggests drug-free solutions such as life style changes, from meditation, to CBT, and mindfulness. Dr. Herbert I. Shuck, N.D., M.Sc. has dual degrees in Pharmacy and Naturopathic Medicine. He spent 20 years in practice as a family medicine practitioner.