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27th Jun 2025

HH564: Encore Presentation-Stress: It Weakens Your Immune System

I am starting a whole new theme for the rest of this month, focused on stress.

Did you know that 90% of all doctors visits are due to stress? 65% of all disease are caused by stress? I want to take you through a myriad of different ways that stress is impacting your health.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time.  The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her on children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more!  She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

 

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Transcript
Melissa Deally:

Welcome back to another episode of health hacks

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as I start a whole new theme now for the rest of this month,

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focused on stress. Did you know that 90% of all doctors visits

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are due to stress, and 65% of all disease are caused by

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stress, and as a result, I just want to take you through a

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myriad of different ways that stress is impacting your health,

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and steps that you can take to do something about that. When it

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comes to stress, we have different types of stress in our

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life. We've got work stress, we've got family stress, we've

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got, you know, children's stress, we've got stress coming

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at us from what seems like all directions. And there are some

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things where we can impact and reduce our stress, and then

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there's some areas where we don't have as much control. And

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so it's all about focusing on the areas where you do have

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control in order to be reducing the stress in your life. And the

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body is all interconnected. And so when I said earlier that 90%

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of all doctors visits are due to stress, and 65% of all disease

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are caused by stress, I also want to know is what is causing

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that stress, so that we can then address the areas that we have

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control over in order to lower that stress. So let's start off

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with stress weakens your immune system, and I know you don't

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want that because, of course, you want a strong immune system

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to be able to fight off illness and infections, and yet, when we

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are living in a place of chronic stress, it is suppressing our

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immune system, and that's because our immune system takes

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a lot of energy to operate. And when we are in that place of

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chronic stress, all our brain can think about is that we are

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in fight or flight. We have to get away from the lion or the

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tiger. So we need energy in order to run and get to safety.

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And so all of the body systems are going towards producing more

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cortisol, more adrenaline in order to allow you to do that,

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and it will shut down other systems that take energy, such

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as your immune system, your digestive system, etc. And so

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this is why, when we are under high stress, our immune system

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gets shut down and suppressed, and then that can make you more

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susceptible to illness and infection. So what can you do?

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Well? You can practice deep breathing. And I know that might

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sound too simple, too easy, we have our breath with us all the

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time. We absolutely take it for granted, and yet we shouldn't,

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however we do, right? And so one of the things that I want to

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share here is the fact that we can absolutely use our breath in

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order to just calm ourselves in the moment, in the here and now

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as we feel our stress level rise. And my favorite way of

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doing this is something called 557, breathing. And I have done

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a whole health hack on this in the past, and I will link it up

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in the show notes below, so that you can also check out that

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episode. And basically, what you're doing is you're inhaling

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for a count of five, holding your breath for a count of five,

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and then exhaling for a count of seven. And you do that for 10

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cycles, it takes you less than three minutes. And it is

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incredible how when you do that, it just calms your entire

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nervous system and you feel the difference. You truly feel the

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difference. And as a result, that is one way that you can

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very easily, anytime, anywhere, and it doesn't cost you

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anything. Just calm your nervous system when you feel your stress

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level going up, so that you can control what you can control,

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and that is your breath and bring your stress levels down to

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get back into a place of more calm in order to protect your

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immune system. And over the course of the rest of this

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month, I'm going to continue sharing ways that you can

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mitigate your stress as well as how stress is impacting your

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health, so that you have an understanding of that

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correlation between your stress today and your ongoing stress

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that you live in every single day, and how that is impacting

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your long term health, along with the tools in order to be

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able to take small, simple action steps to mitigate that

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stress and calm yourself so that you don't end up with a.

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Diagnosis of disease at some point later in life. So keep

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tuning in throughout this month as I share all of these tips

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with you.

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About the Podcast

Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!
with Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner
As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you can then make the right choices for you and your family. The choices you make today impact your future 1 year, 5 years, 10 years + from now. It is never too early to start looking after your health, as Health is your TRUE wealth....without it what do you have?

I use this podcast to support my passion project - non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Listeners are invited to donate as well. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

About your host

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Melissa Deally

Melissa is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issue. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures, but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing, so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.