Online Strength Club

Mary Wingo PhD, is an American-born scientist and author, who emigrated to Ecuador several years ago. Mary has studied stress for over 20 years, and wrote her book 'The Impact of the Human Stress Response' to put all of her learnings into one resource to help those understand the subject, and how it impacts all human life. We are built to use stress to our advantage, from a fight or flight response. But when it's chronic, and it's always there, it has a profoundly negative impact on our overall health and wellbeing. We discuss how Stress impacts everything within our lives, from a physical and mental health, to environment and social economic factors. "You can't take a pill for this" Mary explains. We talk about the effect of stress on the gut biome, and the impacts of physical health, and how to improve gut health through diet. We talk about the impact of over the counter medicine, and plant-based alternatives. Mary also discusses Mindfulness. "All the meditation in the world won't make things better