The Surprising Risk Factor for Covid Death

It’s been well publicized throughout the pandemic that the #1 risk factor of someone dying from Covid is diabetes.  

What do you think the #2 risk factor is?  Make a guess now.  We’ll come back to it later.

Allow me to digress.

The other day my client Susan (not her real name) returned for a visit.  

She first came to me a few years ago for treatment of fibromyalgia.  Pretty quickly her symptoms disappeared.  She ended her treatment right before the pandemic started.  

With everything going on since the Covid lockdown, her fibromyalgia actually stayed away through 2020-2021 even with quarantine and social isolation.  

We kept in touch.  She kept saying that she was doing well.

Then one day she ended up in a hospital because of a dizzy spell.  She was treated for high cholesterol and was put on several medications.

Soon after, her fibromyalgia returned.  That’s when she returned for a session.

She said that one of the new medications triggered her pain reaction… But that’s not the whole story. There’s a more important factor that she overlooked.  

I’m making this statement not only from my experience as a healer, but also from her text message the following morning:

“Our session had a huge impact on me.  When I arrived home I was so tired.  I slept from 1pm until 5am. … I can’t remember when I have experienced more sound sleep.  Thank you!”

Now let’s look at the world that we’ve been living in for the past two years.

1. The #2 risk factor for death from Covid is fear and anxiety-related disorders, according to Center for Disease Control on the data of around 500,000 cases.
2. According to American Psychological Association the rates of anxiety and depression of U.S. adults are about 4 times higher than before the pandemic according to the data from April 2020 through August 2021. 
3. In 2020, death from drug overdose was the highest number ever recorded.

Even though Susan kept telling me that she was doing well, she and all of us have been living under highly stressful circumstances.  We just got used to living with that level of stress, sort of.

We as human beings are designed to live with stress.  A little bit of stress is good.  It actually makes our nervous system and our immune system stronger.

Our innate stress response system is designed to adapt to the environment.  That’s how our species evolved.  However, evolution moves slowly on the scale of millions of years, not centuries or decades, let alone a couple of years.  

We’re not designed to live under the high stress of a two-year pandemic, and now with the war in Ukraine and the price hikes every time we stop by a gas station or a grocery store, it’s even worse.

We sort of go along with it but our bodies are screaming.  Some scream louder than others.  Some muffle it off more successfully than others.

At this dangerous level of stress, our body and mind require us to help them to evolve more intelligently and effectively.

With that, I’m offering you the 8-min Daily Stress Relief Routine to support your body’s evolution.  It’s a part of 9-day Stress Relief Challenge that’s coming up this summer.

You can also find the video on my YouTube channel.  I invite you to subscribe, like and comment on YouTube so the videos can get to more people.

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To your health!