Stress from career, caring for children or aging parents, relationships, health challenges, financial worries and more can easily overwhelm

As we age, receptors for managing cortisol become less responsive, lessening our ability to de-stress. We also absorb key stress reducing nutrients, like magnesium, less efficiently.

Getting sufficient sleep is critical for the brain to process emotions and de-stress. Poor sleep interrupts the rejuvenating process, increasing anxious feelings and foggy thinking.

Around age 40 women and men experience hormonal changes that disrupt key mood neurotransmitters. For women, it's caused by declines in estrogen and progesterone. For men it's primarily declining testosterone levels.

Processed foods, and the depleted soil today, simply do not provide enough of certain key vitamins and other nutrients needed for regulating calming neurotransmitters like Serotonin, and learning & processing neurotransmitter like Acetylcholine.

Missing meals, and consuming high sugar and carbohydrate foods or caffine, can cause large fluctuations in blood sugar affecting your mood and ability to handle stress.