Stressors

Emotional stress is presented as a factor that may combine with physical or chemical stressors to distort brain interpretation. Ordinary emotional events can activate the same stress pathway as survival threats. Poor vertebral movement can create nociception that stimulates sympathetic activation. Modern life can make stress a familiar baseline state that may go consciously unnoticed. Stressors can be emotional, chemical, or structural. Chemical, structural, and emotional stress are presented as possible sources of distorted information reaching the brain. Structural stress may include trauma, accidents, slips, and falls that alter body-position signaling. Chemical stress may include food allergies, chemicals, and metals that interfere with normal function.