How Chronic Stress Quietly Hijacks Your Health

How Chronic Stress Quietly Hijacks Your Health

From Breast Cancer Conqueror Podcast by De'Ann Richter

March 9, 2026 · 54 min · Episode 220

About this episode

Dr. Jorina Elbers discusses how chronic stress affects health and offers drug-free tools for recovery.

Stress = mental and physical health issues, is nothing new. We all know that. Which is why we reached out to Dr. Jorina Elbers, a board-certified neurologist and HeartMath Medical Director. To go deeper into what our bodies are trying to tell us through stress and the damage it causes. She explains how chronic stress and trauma can dysregulate the nervous system. This leads to symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, sleep issues, pain, digestive problems, and emotional overwhelm. Rather than seeing these as separate issues. She shows how they're often connected by a single root cause: a system stuck in fight-or-flight or shutdown. Tune in to learn more about how to step out of your stress shutdown cycle of damage. Why the medication-first model often misses the bigger picture. And, most importantly, discover drug-free and evidence-based tools that can help restore balance. For more info on HeartMath and to download the app, please click here .

People in this episode

Host: De'Ann Richter

Guest: Dr. Jorina Elbers

Topics covered

  • chronic stress
  • nervous system
  • mental health
  • physical health
  • drug-free tools
  • emotional overwhelm

Keywords

  • chronic stress
  • nervous system dysregulation
  • fatigue
  • brain fog
  • sleep issues
  • emotional overwhelm
  • HeartMath

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HeartMath

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