According to American Psychological Association statistics about 77% of peoples experience physical signs of stress and 73% – psychological symptoms. And it comes mostly from worries about work and money (76%). 33% of people experiences stress that they perceive as extreme and 48 % can`t sleep due to stress. These people may develop health conditions that will cause serious problems in the future or may already developed them.

Addiction to smoking is a leading problems. 30% of the population continues to smoke despite a government-supported campaign against it. Other addictions related to stress too, create severe damage to people’s health.
Very often, it is the result of anxiety, which affects 18% of the population. Panic attack – is an advanced stage of anxiety and it effects 3% of the population. Insomnia is a chronic condition for 33% of the population and affects our productivity and economy in general. Depression became serious concern in regard of health and safety in our society as it can cause violence in some cases.
Blood sugar problems according to some experts are skyrocketing and not only high blood sugar but low level of sugar in physiology that is another reason for violence and crime. They estimate that 70 % of all crime were done due to this reason.

Anxiety, insomnia and chronic fatigue became very common and even considered as normal part of life for working man and women but not everybody realized the connection of this mental issues with gut. Stress damage gut lining and alter microbiome by increased level of stress hormone cortisol. This effects other systems including immune, nervous and endocrine health.
According to Ayurveda stress affects nervous system on many levels and first one is the reproductive system, colon and other organs and functions of the pelvic area. This imbalance is the first that is manifesting itself in the pulse of every individual and later spread all over other parts of physiology. If one would be able to address this imbalance in this part of the body he or she may be able to prevent many conditions and diseases that are connected to it: gynecological, sexual, urinary and pre-natal and even pregnancy problems. In our experience everybody has imbalance in this area in different degree including children.
Do they need to start prevention of the future problems in this and other areas of physiology? The answer is yes. The earlier the better so they can start before it is too difficult to balance physiology as it is already burdened by many health conditions which may not be even diagnosed by doctor. In this case Ayurveda can work as complimentary modality and it is already recognized as such by NIH. There are multiple scientific research that confirmed benefits of Ayurveda for reduction of stress response and improvement of health.

The common reason for stress is improper lifestyle which include the time when we rise from night time rest and when we go to sleep and time when we eat and exercise. The time for work, food intake and rest should be tuned to rhythms of nature and gradually incorporated in our daily routine. Recently three American scientists received Nobel Prize for discovery that those people healthier who have lifestyle that is matching natural biorhythms in the environment. It was known in Ayurveda long time ago as this science exist at least for 5000 years.
New science of epigenetic says that genes are switched on when an environmental condition within the body sends signals to the cell. This information passes into the cell and is received by the nucleus which is the storehouse of our genetic material. The vast majority of DNA within the human genome is inactive. But if certain conditions arise, or example stress or poor diet they can be activated, affecting our health as a result.
Ayurveda offer even more to this because it recommends individualized lifestyle and food choices for each type of physiology. Each person has specific type of physiology from birth but initial type can change and became imbalanced. It can be identified by pulse reading, questionnaires and observation by Ayurveda experts. Based on all of these tools Ayurveda specialist can recommend preferable list of food but it is not mean that person will be dieting. Even small change can help to reduce imbalance and improve general wellbeing but over time one can feel increased energy, stamina, better sleep, reduced fatigue, anxiety, low mood and addiction to wrong behavior.
There are growing number of research about yoga and meditation help for digestion and mood. The major help is because this techniques reduce stress hormone cortisol and therefore risk of development both mind and body problems. They also help integrate mind, body and spirit which was one of the goals of ancient science of Ayurveda too.
Meditation is mostly affecting mood and yoga postures are mostly for body. Each posture of yoga promote better digestion, elimination and function of all organs in the physiology. Yoga can help with support for many diseases and it is available for almost everybody though some conditions can prevent person from doing it. You should always ask doctor if you can do yoga if you have back and joints pain, arthritis, sciatica, pregnancy, etc. Never do yoga if you have cold and flu or after surgery.
There are 15 million of people doing yoga postures in the US though they are not aware of Ayurveda as a science that recommend yoga postures not only for body but for mind. And exercising yoga is not complete without implementing Ayurveda recommendations for lifestyle and food choices. It is not necessarily vegetarian diet for everybody but individualized food choices according to specific type of physiology. If somebody would like to be vegetarian he or she should start it slowly and follow his own pace that is suitable for him.
Meditation became very attractive and popular too due to intuitive desire to have some quite time away from hustle and bustle of modern life. Relaxation and stress reduction is not possible without some kind of mental rest and meditation is the best rest for mind.
Meditation proven to reduce addiction through relive of mental stress, and Ayurveda assessment and balancing will harmonize whole physiology. Recent research about benefits of yoga showed that it can reduce depression by naturally increasing GABA neurotransmitter.

In conclusion, we can say that we improve our general wellbeing and reduce stress response by balancing our mind and body with pure herbs and food based supplements, daily yoga postures and meditation that have their own benefits for each part of physiology including our gut and mind.