The advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen, mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition. elim Kimberly King and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, we take a fresh look at the things that stress us out and how we can handle it, living more stress-free can help you live a longer and help your life. So listen, close, plus later, we'll tell you what's going on around town and what's new at mother's market, but first up, Ryan Reisman is a national educator from Himalaya herbal healthcare, and he's been a part of the natural supplement industry for over 25 years. A one-time health food store manager and radio host, he's now a trainer, writer and educator for Himalayas North American division, who also speak to consumers all over America on the herbs of India that make up Himalayas formulas in a pure or singles... And I'll tell you what it is, it's kind of fun trying to pronounce all these words that in here... Year, welcome. We welcome you to the mother's market radio show. Ryan, how are you?

I am great. It's so good to be here, thanks for having me.

Thank you for helping me pronounce these words, why don't you fill our audience a little bit on your mission and work before we get to the show's topics.

Well, I'm one of those old health food store industry dinosaurs that remembers everything from back in the days when people were still all smelling like Petula and have a wooden floors and the love beads in their health food store.

I came from Central and Southern Wisconsin where I worked in some health food stores and managed some health food stores, just some little mom and pop stores before the... All the chains came along and things like that, so I've always had that background of just retail and getting to know supplements from a consumer's point of view as they come in the store, and then moved to Las Vegas later in my career and kind of got involved with some marketing companies that we're working with new companies within the health food and supplement industry, and from there, found my way to Himalaya herbal Health Care, which is a wonderful old old worldwide company, I think they're 84 years old this year out of India, and found my way to their North American division, about 15, 16 years ago, and there I've been ever since, having a wonderful time talking about these herbs... Well, that sounds great today, right, and we're talking about how we can have less stress in her lives and who doesn't want that... Right, exactly.

How we're gonna start by asking, you've been calling 2014 the year of the mind, tell us how stress Care fits into that model and what distress due to our mind... Well, when we say the word stress, most people don't really stop to think that that word encompasses a lot... You can ask people if they're under stress, and a lot of people just give you that reaction and say, No, not really... Some days are rougher than others, but I'm not really that stressed out, so when we say stress, a lot of times what we're talking about is worry or fear or anger, you know, everybody gets mad, everybody gets worried about stuff that's stress and that affects our mind greatly and vice versa, IR Veda, which is the system of medicine, our products from India are based on IR Veda, says that all or most disease begins in the mind, begins in the mind, and then works its way to our digestive system, they drew a little map for us, and then it works its way to our liver, and then it works its way into our blood where it becomes illness, so to Irv disease began in the mind and the mind as it relates to stress is the origin of most disease.

So if you really want to have optimum health, you have to begin at the root cause, you have to go back to the mind, our mind is a great rationale of what we're able to do to support our body. And if you look at that from the standpoint of the diseases we have today versus the diseases we had like 100 years ago, it's really remarkable to look at, for instance, how many of your friends, you know our family members have died of whooping off or scarlet fever, or measles or tuberculosis. If you go back to 1900, all of our diseases that we were dying from, more infectious diseases, now we're seeing people dying of cancer and heart disease and stroke, and diabetes-related, sugar-related things, a chronic respiratory-related things, those are all inflammatory diseases.

So just in the last century, we've taken disease from a very infectious danger zone to a very inflammatory danger zone, and on your show all the time, we talk about inflammation being the root cause of diseases, and if you think about that, those inflammation... Those inflammatory responses are often caused by the stress we put on our mind or on our body, you know, your mind is kind of a dumb thing, it doesn't know the difference between working out and getting hit by a car to your mind in your body, that's all inflammation, either one.

So when we look at stress and how it affects the body, we have to go back to that root cause of the mind, the way we perceive things can be stressful for us, so it's like that PRISM, we have to tell it to that that... So I've heard you say there's a whole alphabet list of body systems that stress affects a for the adrenals, B for blood sugar, see for the cardiovascular system, defer, digestion, and you can really go down the alphabet and stress literally affects or influences something for every letter I think that's really... I think that's beautiful the way you've put this together, but does that mean a good stress formula really needs to have something in it to support all of those systems?

I think it does. I think when we look at stress formulas that we see on the store shelves and in the industry, we see a lot of things that are very organ-based... Or very narrow in their focus.

I know there are a lot of stress formulas that deal with the adrenals for instance, and looking at people's cortisol levels, that stress hormone, cortisol, and people wanting to bring that cortisol level down, or our stress formulas tend to be central nervous system, sedatives, they make us drowsy. We take these things, and I guess the theory is, maybe I'll take a nap and when I wake up, my stress will be gone, but the problem with giving people these sort of herbal downers is that we have to pick them back up again, and that's where you see people reaching for all these energy drinks and we're giving him a sedative to make them sleepy and stress-free, and then we're giving them an energy drink to pick them back up again, and we put them on the adrenal roller coaster. But what you said is very true, I think we have to really address all those systems of the body, that stress effects, that whole AI to the alphabet of bodily systems, when we're under-stress, the body starts to ration things out, so the body says, You know what, it's that fight or flight response. I might have to run away from a tiger or I might have to fight off an attacking animal, so my stress response is to shoot every bit of energy I have into my arms and to my muscles into my legs, if I have to fight or flight, if I have to run or fight something, but because we've done that, the body has to ration its functions from other areas, so that means suddenly now our body can't take care of immune function, we don't have enough energy reserve left for that, we can't take care of digestive function, why when you get stressed out, you all of a sudden feel your stomach clean up and you have no appetite when you're stressed up, stress is shut down your digestive function, a tissue repair and regeneration slows down. When we're under stress, our detoxification process slows down when we're under stress, even things like cancer cell identification and our body slow down when we're under-stress our bodies. The typical human body creates 200 cancer cells a day, and our immune system attacks those cells takes care of them, and there you go, that's no problem. But when we're under stress, that ability for our immune system to identify those cells goes down, reproduction slows down when we're under stress, the human body is designed very brilliantly, if you're out in the woods as primitive human beings running away from tigers, you don't wanna stop to make babies.

So when we're under stress, we see in women, we see a man area as an Aman, no, period, and then we see a erectile dysfunction because the body knows when you're stressed out, when you're under stress, not a good time to be making babies.

So when we look at our stress formulas that really, really do work, we look at formulas that support all those systems of the body, and don't just worry about those cortisol levels and those adrenals... I mean, that's a nice place to start. But those are chemicals. Those are easily influenced. I could give you some licorice tonight and you'd wake up tomorrow morning and your cortisol levels will be down, that's not hard to do. You can come in to clinic, we'll give you something that will lower your cortisol and four hours, but to address all those systems of the body that need supporting when we're under stress is really, I think the bigger picture when we talk about stress, I think that's really fascinating though, when you put those stress on A to Z and you can really identify that.

Very interesting. Well, I wanna talk a little bit about how stress affects our memory, this is also fascinating, once you talked about stress and how it pushes the pause button on memory... Why does it do that? And how can we get it to stop?

Oh, that's really fascinating. One of the things that, umm, when people are in car accidents, for example, they've had a car accident and they wake up in the hospital, people will say to them, what happened and... What do they typically respond?

I don't remember, I don't remember. It happened so fast, I don't remember. Or if they're robbed or they're mugged or they're assaulted and the police come and say, What did the assailant look like? What do they say?

I don't remember, I don't remember. It happened so fast, that is a really good defense mechanism that we have, stress pushes the pause button on our memory because our brains, our minds don't want to remember traumatic events that would not be a good thing if something... If you were in a very bad car accident, to remember that over and over again, we think that's where post-traumatic stress syndrome comes from, the fact that somehow we had a disconnect there and the brain did record that traumatic, that now it's playing it over and over and over again on a loop, and that creates severe, severe problems for some people, so it's a good thing that stress pushes the pause button on our memory. That's a good defense mechanism. However, like I said earlier, the body doesn't know the difference between being hit by a car or working out, and in this case, it doesn't know the difference between being in a bad car accident or you're 10 minutes late for work and you can't find your car keys it's still pushing the pause button on memory, and that's where we get frustrated in our daily lives, is the fact that... Yeah, I don't wanna remember the bad accidents in my life, but if I'm running around the house and don't remember where I put the key, used my glasses or the kids... It's one of those things. So when we look at herbal formulas that deal with that, we really have to look at things that are not just good neuroprotective formulas and no Tropic formulas that are getting more oxygen to the brain and helping memory in that way.

What we really have to look at as things that slow down an over-active mind, things that just calm your overactive mind down a little, help you focus, help you not be so forgetful, and we certainly have a lot of those great classic old Indian herbs that are used that way in our stress care formula.

Again, that again, it really makes a lot of sense in this busy, busy world that we're all going 100 miles an hour, we have to take a quick break, but this is a very interesting information in... Right now, if we can have more, when we come back, a lot more coming your way, don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. And welcome back to the mother's market radio show. And we wanna remind you that if you missed any portion of today's show, you can always find us on iTunes by searching mother's market or download the show from our website, mother's market dot com, click the link for radio and listen to past shows. Plus download our Healthy Recipes and money savings coupons, all available at mother's market dot com. And now, back to our interview with Ryan Reshma, this has been really interesting, and I wanted to ask you about some of your clinical research, and that stress care is also non-drowsy, let's talk a little bit about stress care is... It's not an upper, it's not a downer, it's just a good even body balance or Himalaya. Herbal healthcare does a lot of clinical trials on our product, we come from an old ancient Irvin system of medicine, but we really validate things clinically, we have over, I think, over 1200 clinical papers on our product line and medical journals all throughout the world. Some of these products have been out for decades and of a mass to tremendous amount of clinical research, when we look at some of the studies that have been done on stress care and remembering to re-define stress as worry, fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, all those things are stressed, we looked at people who were very, very stressed out, we looked at people who are even suicidal, who had attempted suicide, and that's your worst day ever... That's your worst. Most stressful day ever. If you've reached that point, everybody... Our goal is the same. It's to be happy. Our solutions are different, so someone who's contemplating hurting themselves are killing themselves, their solution might be unique, but their goal is the same as us, we just wanna be stress-free and happy.

So when you look at those people and what stress car did over a six-week period, we saw that 82% of them had less insomnia, they slept better, 85% woke up feeling more refreshed, they had a reduction in daytime fatigue, they had a reduction in self-reported feelings of worthlessness by about 60%, so six out of 10 people taking that product just felt better about themselves, we had a beautiful testimony, a letter from an 87-year-old woman, she said, I'm not sad and I'm not angry anymore, and my dreams are beautiful. And it was just the sweetest thing that something like stress car did that for.

So what we think traditionally, and what we see traditionally is really born out by the clinical studies, we see this doing some really nice things for people.

That's nice. What is shaven Prism hoping I'm saying that right?

You are a very good.

Good job. The health of you. Thank you. And why do you put that in stress care for you, sharing crush.

Now, if you look at a bottle of stress care, it's a huge number of nutrients and herbs in there, it's got about 70 different things in it, and the first 40 things on the label are a recipe called shaven crash and shaving crashes, an ancient Indian recipe. People would eat it like a jam, like a pace... If you open up a jar of shaving pro jam, it looks like tar, it's thick and black and made with amla fruit and... But it's full of good things like cardamom and Oshawa Ganda, and ginger Lily and shot of ARI and all these delicious old Indian R, and it tastes a little like figs, taste like apple butter, but they eat a big spoonful every day because it's good for the mind. It supports the adrenals. It's good for detoxification, it's kind of like the chicken soup of India, like the Oval team of India, kids grow for the spoonful of shoving crush in their mouth, and in Arvada, we start our difficult cases, if somebody comes in, they don't know... We don't know what's wrong with them, we'll start just by giving them that spoonful of shaving brush every day 'cause it's very grounding and really just helps everything else, so we put it in stress care to support all those A to Z body systems that we talked about earlier... It's just a good starting point. I'm trying to make the song a spoonful of sugar in that it didn't come out at School of Shapiro helps the medicine go down.

I really wanted you to tell the story of you coming in this morning and your cap diverse...

Oh, my cab driver was singing... Oh, what a beautiful morning. It hit my Indian castes. Wonderful Indian accident. Oh, Toolkit was a wonderful and surreal experience.

On the way to the studio will come to see Clarion, that note, right?

Tell us a little bit about Oshawa Ganda and how is that? And what is that doing for our body, Shahada is an urban stress gear, that's a wonderful body balancer, it's a teeter totter, it's an adaption in India, we call those Russians life extenders, but through history, those have been called elixirs or tonics, and today we call them adapt to Gen, which is a body balancer, I call OSHA Konami teeter totter herb, because if you were a kid and everyone on the playground and got on the teeter-totter with a friend... You know, you go up and down and back and forth. But there was always that time where you'd wanna balance it right in the middle, so one of you would scoot forward and one of you would scoot backwards and you just both have your feet off the ground, that's a teeter totter, or like OSHA goes... If something in your body is running too quickly, Shane's gonna slow it down, if something's too hot, it's gonna cool it off, and vice versa, it's just a good even ground balancing or in Sanskrit means strength of a horse, Ashanti gives you the strength and the endurance of a horse.

Wow, I'd love the way you describe that. One to two, we should also have a teaspoon of that every morning as well.

Okay, we talked a little bit before the show started about stress care and how it promotes a helipad and homeostasis. Right, right, right.

You know, we have a tendency in our industry to look for things that are homeostatic things that just keep us the same... It's a very Western drug model, we don't want your blood pressure to go up, we don't want it to go down, we don't want your cholesterol to go up, we don't want it to go down, we wanna find a good spot, and then they stick it there and that's a drug model that's so let's keep it holy, a static homeostasis. That's what they talk about when they wanna send the astronauts to Mars, how do we keep them in homeostasis for that long journey? Well, the problem with that is, our world isn't homeostatic, our world doesn't stand still, and if incoming stressors are coming in all the time, we've gotta give our bodies herbs that promote aliases, the ability to be flexible, so all those Serbs and stress care help us promote... Help us support things that are gonna keep us flexible to incoming stressors and not just standing still and I like... And why do you think so many people down-play their lives, stressors, what... We were talking about this during the break. And I think it's just the fact that people see their life as it is what it is, you know I've got a job to do, I wake up in the morning, I'd go to my job and yeah, it's stressful. But this is my life, so it becomes such a habit that... We don't think beyond that.

Yes, we all have extraordinarily stressful things that happened during our day, but I can't dwell on it 'cause I gotta get my work done, so I think a lot of people are hugely under-treating their own stress.

If you look at government statistics, 60% to 90% of all doctor visits are because of a condition that was made worse by stress, so if you look at it from that standpoint, you're sitting in the doctor's waiting room and there's 10 people in there, six to nine of them are there because stress made them sick or sicker, so I think we really have to realize that that stress is a... It's a rough road, and we all experience it and we should face it and own up to it, and... Right, as what you're saying about being in the doctor's office, we have a lot of uppers and downers in this category, don't we... We do, yeah, just like I was saying earlier, we've got those things that put us to sleep and the way we got things that wake us back up, and I'm really stress-free when I take a nap, and I would imagine you are too, but if you gotta be on your feet all day at work, or on the phones all day, or on the computer all day, you can't be dropping off and nodding off every time you take a stress formula, so we've made one that's energizing and uplifting and mood uplifting and doesn't put you to sleep.

So the problem with the approach that we're talking about with this stress, and you talk about stress care and do you take it with a meal... Without a meal. How do you take it every day?

We take two capsules twice a day, so it's just a daily support formula, I keep calling it the Mind Body multi, and it really is. Now you can take it situation ally, I've had people say, You know what, I hate to go to the dentist, it makes me nervous. Gives me a lot of anxiety, so I'll take two, three stress care before I go to the dentist, or I'll hear people... Public speakers will say, I get nervous, I get those butterflies in my stomach, so I'll take a couple of stress here before I go on stage or go to my presentation, so you can take it situational like that, but the very best way to take it is just to take it every day is just good mind, body, tonic support every day, and what about the rest of it? What else should we be doing to reduce stress levels in this year of the mind... Well, that's a good question, and I think everybody wants to know What are the tricks you should do to relieve stress, and I think we're at a point where soothing to and taking deep breaths and counting to 10 doesn't work anymore. I mean, if that old classic classic wisdom, just close your eyes, breathe deeply in, count in 10. if that worked, we wouldn't have any stress products on our shelves, and as it 'cause we'd all be stress-free.

I think the first thing you need to do is just find the source of stress in your life, find... Take an inventory of your life. Find the source of stress. You know, stress care is a great formula, all the other stress products at mothers are great formulas, but if you've got a really hard, difficult job or a cranky boss, those formulas aren't gonna help with that.

So at a certain point, you have to take an inventory, confront and change things if you need to do a lot of positive self-talk and hang out with positive people, that's really important, and I like to tell people who are under stress to slow down just a minute and stimulate their physical senses now, whether that's exercise, which is great, or just taking that two minutes to stop, see, listen, smell, feel if you can stimulate your physical senses, you'll often bring your stress levels down right away. Look around, What do I smell? Do I smell flowers or gasoline exhaust? Or the smell before rain, or Look, what colors do I see? Do I see trees or Sky, or what do I hear? Do I hear kids playing down the hall to your birds chirping, if you can trick your mind into putting its attention elsewhere, it's really easy to do, all you gotta do is stop and smell, listen, look, and often you can take stress and anxiety levels down considerably, just by tricking your mind into a look, a squirrel, a classic look somewhere else, and you're gonna forget some of the stress, and I love that too, because... And actually, I just heard somebody talk about shutting down your electronics because even our kids all exactly say, instead of taking a picture of the sense actually put down your electronics and actually sit and enjoy... Look and joy. Everybody, I read a great book, I've got a seven, eight-year-old then somebody gave me a book called hands-free mama, that came out this year. It was a great book about just disconnecting from our electronics and just being able to be in the moment with our families and our kids... A great advice, right? And I really like that of a factory said like, smell the rain after a before and after, I just take a moment to engage your senses and that will automatically bring your stress levels down.

Very great, I love this advice. So thank you so much, Ryan, it's been great having you on the show and we look forward to having you on again, but in the meantime, you get more information on your website, Himalaya, usa dot com, without the data, Elsa dot com spin out how you can be stress free, and we look forward to your next visit. Thank you, thank you so much for having... Thanks for listening to the mother's market radio show, and for shopping at mother's for advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen, mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition,