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Building Resilience:
A Guide to Personalized Care for Stress

Key Points

  1. Each patient’s experience of stress is unique and shaped by multiple factors.
  2. A thorough understanding and personalized approach to the stages of the three stages of stress response is essential for supporting patients in recovering from stress and building resilience.
  3. A customized strategy not only addresses the diverse causes and symptoms of stress but also enhances patient engagement and outcomes.

Table of Contents:

  1. The Importance of a Personalized Approach to Stress Management
  2. Understanding Individual Differences in Stress Responses
  3. Building Resilience Against Stress
    1. Infographic: Supporting a Healthy Stress Response
  4. The 3 Stages of Stress Adaptation: Expanding Your Knowledge
    1. Video: Understanding the 3 Stages of Stress Adaptation
    2. Video: The Stress Cascade: Mapping its Effects on Body Systems
  5. Additional Resources

The Importance of a Personalized Approach to Stress Management

More than one-third of adults don’t know where to begin to manage their stress. For some, their healthcare practitioner may be the only person they talk to about their stress.[1]

While stress is a universal experience with profound impacts on each patient’s overall health, its manifestation and effects are unique to everyone, necessitating a personalized approach . A customized strategy can address a wide range of stress symptoms and causes while also improving patient involvement and results.

Understanding Individual Differences in Stress Responses

Each patient’s experience of stress is shaped by numerous factors including genetic predisposition, environmental factors, personal coping mechanisms and even the specific stressors themselves. A personalized approach allows the healthcare practitioner to address these distinctions, enabling more precise identification of stress triggers and the development of effective, individualized strategies.

Building Resilience Against Stress

The following infographic is a guide to providing comprehensive care for your patient that addresses the physiological and psychological mechanisms associated with the stress response, along with thorough assessment recommendations, diet, exercise, sleep adaptogenic and nutrient support.

Infographic displaying 3 stages of adaptation and related assessments, and diet, exercise and supplement recommendations

 

The Three Stages of Stress Adaptation: Expanding Your Knowledge

The 3 stages of stress adaptation are a framework that describes how the body responds to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

A thorough understanding of the progression of these stages and how their presentation can vary between individuals is vital for supporting a patient’s response to stress and for promoting resilience to it.

Explore our educational videos below to enhance your knowledge of the 3 stages of stress adaptation, the intricate relationship between stress, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the long-term effects of stress.

 

Additional Resources

Stress Management & Relaxation Protocol‡: developed with James Greenblatt, MD, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine for mental health, this protocol offers nutrition and lifestyle recommendations to support stress management and relaxation.‡

Drug-Nutrient Interaction Checker:   provides valuable information on potential interactions between your patients’ prescriptions, over-the-counter medications and nutritional supplements.

PureInsight™: Our streamlined platform easily collects patient data and provides valuable, personalized recommendations to help achieve their unique health goals.

Virtual Dispensary: our Pure Patient Direct program provides account holders FREE access to our virtual dispensary to help simplify patient sales and reduce in-office inventory.

 

References

[1] American Psychological Association