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Chapter 3Stress and Disease

• By comprehending that human beings are energy,
  one can begin to comprehend new ways of viewing
  health and illness
• - Richard Gerber M.D.

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Relationship Between Stress and Disease?

• Science has not been able to demonstrate a
  concrete connection between stress and disease.
• However, this chapter presents various scientific
  views and explanations of hypothesized
  relationships between stress and disease.

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Stress and Disease Connection

• The current focus on the stress and disease
  phenomenon is directed toward the interactions of
  the
• immune system
• the CNS
• human consciousness

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Disease Illness Relationship

• Research indicates that
• 70 to 80 percent of health-related problems
• may be precipitated or aggravated by stress

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Stress and Disease

• Understand the relationship between stress and
  disease
• factors act in unison to create a pathological
  outcome
• These factors include
• cognitive perceptions of threatening stimuli and
• the consequent activation of the
• nervous system
• endocrine system
• immune system

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Psychoneuroimmunology

• Pelletier defines it as the study of the
  intricate interaction of
• consciousness (psycho)
• brain and central nervous system (neuro), and
• the bodys defense against external infection and
  internal aberrant cell division (immunology).

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Theoretical Models

• The Borysenko Model
• The Pert Model
• The Gerber Model
• The Pelletier Premodel

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The Borysenko Model

• Stress-induced dysregulation
• Matrix immune balance with four
  classifications of disease
• Autonomic nervous system
• releases stress hormones
• physiological repercussions
• migraines, ulcers, and hypertension.

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Borysenkos stress disease dichotomy
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Borysenkos Immune Activity Matrix
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Application AssignmentWrite you answer on the
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• T/F According to

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The Pert Model

• Perts model cites research findings linking the
  nervous system with the immune system
• Various cell tissues comprising the immune system
  can synthesize neuropeptides to alter immune
  function
• Positive emotions can enhance immune function

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The Gerber Model

• Holistic or systems -theory approach
• Mind
• conscious and unconscious thought
• exists as energy (bioplasma)
• energy surrounds and permeates the body
• influences biochemical reactions.

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Gerber Model Disease

• Disturbance in human energy field
• through levels of energy
• To the body via
• chakras
• doors of energy
• meridians.

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Gerber Model

• Stress-related symptoms
• appearing in the physical body
• the manifestation of problems
• problems that occurred earlier as a result of
  disturbances at higher energy level
• Thoughts, perception, and emotions
• originate in layers of subtle energy
• cascade through the mind-body interface
• decoded at the molecular level
• cause biological changes in the body

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The Gerber model
See Figure 3.3 on page 44 of your textbook.
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Human Energy FieldsKirlian Photography

• Before and after Kirlian Photographs
• http//www.xs4all.nl/remy/kirlian.html
• Tracing Human Spirit with Kirlian Photography
• http//www.compusmart.ab.ca/triune/akabstract.htm
• More Photos
• http//www.kirlian.com.br/hingII5.htm
• after /hing__ are the letters i in capital
  letters

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Human Energy FieldsChakras

• 7 or 8 primary human chakras
• http//www.jwdavies.com/7veils.htm
• http//www.rickrichards.com/metaphysics_1.htm
• The Chakra-Handbook by Shalila Sharamon Bodo J.
  Baginski
• http//www.wppwired.com/PSYNET/chakra/index.html

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The Pelletier Pre-Model

• Issues must be understood
• before a stress-disease model can be developed
• Issues include diseases of people with
• multiple personality disorder
• spontaneous remissions
• hypnosis
• placebos
• immuneonhancement.

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Pelletiers Review of Literature

• To understand the stress-disease/mind-body
  phenomenon
• Consider individuals as greater than the sum of
  its physiological parts

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Nervous System-Related Disorders

• bronchial asthma
• tension headaches
• migraine headaches
• temporomandi-bular joint dysfunction

• irritable bowel syndrome
• ulcers and colitis
• coronary heart disease

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Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
See Figure 3.5 of your textbook.
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Immune System-Related Disorders

• the common cold and influenza
• allergies
• rheumatoid arthritis

• lupus
• cancer
• AIDS

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