So What is Stress?

Your Allostatix Load™ combines the results of your individual blood and biometric tests to measure the impact stress has had on your body systems. It predicts your future health and well-being by looking at how all of your systems work together. Your Allostatix Load™ measures your whole body health.

Stress has a measurable effect on the different systems in your body. But what is stress?

Stress includes feelings of stress from mental pressures that we all feel from time to time. Stress also includes the impact on the functioning of your body systems, which is an important aspect of whole body health. Stressful feelings, life experiences, and bodily stressors from poor lifestyle behaviors—such as smoking, poor diet, bad sleep habits, poor exercise routine—all have an impact on your whole body health.

Your behaviors, life experiences, age, and genetic make-up directly contribute to your Allostatix Load™. Your Load is influenced by things you can control, like your diet, exercise habits, sleep patterns, and stress management practices. It is also influenced by things you cannot control, like your age, genetic makeup, and childhood experiences. Positive changes to things you can control, like your weight and stress management skills, will help to improve your Allostatix Load™.