How stress impacts our health and what can we do about it?

Flowpresso – Stress Relief, Anxiety, Sleep Disorders & Sports Performance

Now more than ever, we as a nation are being bombarded by constant stressors that can impact our health. Gloom and doom news cycles, chronic work burnout, financial and personal pressures lead to unprecedented levels of mental challenges and illness. An estimated 31.1% of U.S. adults experience anxiety disorder at some time in their lives Stressful events (even “happy” ones like weddings, children, graduations, new jobs and home moves) stimulate our fight-or-flight  sympathetic nervous system and can slowly degrade health and wellbeing.

As an integrative medical doctor, I see the impact of stress states on health, illness and disease. Rates of anxiety, insomnia, and burnout are at all time highs and are related to weight gain, menopause symptoms, hormonal imbalance, gut dysfunction like IBS, constipation and heartburn and GERD, as well as hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis and musculoskeletal injury such as back, neck and knee pain.

More and more in my practice, I am recommending ways to limit the effect of stress on patients — be it acupuncture, meditation, trauma work, counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, and other somatic body work interventions. But many of these are hard to do consistently, some are expensive and time consuming and often getting into the habit of daily or weekly maintenance does not create long lasting benefits.

I recently became aware of a device that can quickly and easily address the issue of overactive fight-or-flight  responses. My friend Nathalie Niddam was at a biohacking conference and introduced me to the inventor of the Flowpresso device. After our chat, and a review of her studies using the device, I decided this was an important adjunct to my practice.

What Is Flowpresso?

➔ The Flowpresso is a bodysuit device covering legs, arms, abdomen and torso. With 22 individual chambers that inflate sequentially delivering a cyclical consistent pressure that is customizable — the client experiences a relaxed, calming state to reduce anxiety, stress and improve sleep.

In addition to compression, the Flowpresso includes infrared exposure, comfortable heat and a nano-vibrational technology to enhance states of relaxation and healing. The experience improves heart rate variability, a known marker of health and longevity, improves deeper sleep states, and reduces stress and anxiety.

The device offers two settings: a Relaxation program and a Performance program that offers deeper resistance to encourage fasciae release, weight loss, improved blood flow and deeper detoxification (and is great for athletes).

What Does A Typical Session Look Like?

➔ Patients remain fully dressed throughout their 40 minute treatment session. Our nurse applies the compression sections and connects the air pressure and heat cables. Initial pressure and heat settings are adjusted to patient comfort. Once the suit starts to inflate, patients experience a squeezing sensation which should feel like a hug, with no discomfort. Next, a gentle heat spreads throughout the suit that is designed to penetrate the body to increase blood flow and oxygen delivery, while avoiding overheating. We recommend using headphones to listen to relaxing music to enhance the relaxation experience.

How Does Flowpresso Work?The creators of the Flowpresso have conducted studies on 140 patients to measure the effect on heart rate variability, deeper sleep states, stress and anxiety. After a weekly treatment protocol of 6 weeks, patients experienced:

• A 24% improvement in deeper sleep
• A 68% reduction in stress states
• A 50% reduction in anxiety

Who Is Flowpresso For?

➔ Anyone who wishes to reduce anxiety, feelings of stress, improve sleep and support healing and recovery from illness can benefit.

The program helps to shift you from sympathetic fight-or-flight  response to parasympathetic rest, digest and restore responses. By resetting the person’s autonomic nervous system, down regulating hyper vigilance and encouraging healing states the Flowpresso is a wonderful supplement to any healing and recovery strategy.

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Ready for the legal disclaimer? Information offered here is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. As with any health recommendations, please contact your doctor to be sure any changes you wish to consider are safe for you!