Enhancing the effects of tiger nut
Removing Stress from the Body
In this section, we will use tiger nut to provide you with truly valuable information. We will connect the theory of stress with the story of a real person to demonstrate in broader context how fear and stress affect a person's health and eating habits.
"We tend to think of the gut as just a place where poop comes from. But it has become the heart of the biomedical revolution. Diseases like anxiety, depression, cancer, autism, and Parkinson’s disease are all connected to digestion. It’s a new science, just the tip of the iceberg. The remaining 97% still needs to be discovered."
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
We don’t need to – it has already been discovered. All diseases are psychosomatic and are linked to the mind, its programming, perception, and interpretation of everything happening inside and outside of us. That is why those remaining 97% are related to stress, which is a consequence of fears projected by our mind in situations that are not life-threatening.
We all have the stress code in our DNA, and its purpose is to save our life. It is meant to activate and put the body into a stress state only in life-threatening situations, as a reaction to a specific danger. The problem in our lives and our health is that such situations are rare, but we live in fear and stress constantly, often without even realizing it. Why? Because our mind keeps projecting fears even in non-life-threatening situations.
The fear contained in thoughts is always tied to a negative future scenario. The body reacts to the mind, and fear-based thoughts trigger the stress response. In a stress state, everything unnecessary for survival shuts down.
If such a state becomes chronic and lasts too long, the cells – which no longer receive nutrition, oxygen… or eliminate waste – begin to create a toxic environment, resulting in processes within the body functioning incorrectly.
If we want the body to function without symptoms and achieve long-term health, we must remove fear from the mind and reprogram it with healthy, life-supporting beliefs. Once we heal the mind, we remove stress from the body, allowing the body to heal itself. All other factors – such as healthy nutrition, exercise, hydration, sufficient sleep – are natural consequences of a healthy mind that understands the importance of these elements for overall health.
"The idea that the microbiome could be the key to health is an incredible message. You may not be able to change your genes, but all of us can change our microbiota simply by changing our diet and lifestyle."
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
Tiger nut, with all its benefits for the body, sits at the top of the superfood pyramid. But for it to be fully utilized by the body, we need to understand other related factors that might be preventing its full potential. According to scientists, the microbiome may be the key to health. We claim that the true key is the mind. Thoughts matter, because they influence the entire biology of the body. Just as scientists emphasize, we must explore the whole ecosystem in context, which in the case of a human being includes the soul, the mind, and the body. Once we become aware of their interrelated causal connections, we become conscious creators of our own health. Through thoughts, decisions, and actions, we can consciously influence processes in the body.
A healthy diet, a healthy microbiome, and a healthy digestive system are crucial parts of overall body health. But what most people don’t know is this: "There is no healthy body without a healthy mind." The body reacts to and follows the mind. Every thought has an impact on the biology of the body. If we are not afraid of anything in the present moment, our cells are in an open growth mode, the immune system carries out its routine maintenance, and the body’s self-healing, self-repairing, and self-cleansing functions are activated. But a single fear-based thought can change the body’s entire biology. Fear is the trigger for the body’s stress response, with all the health consequences that come from it and the disruption of vital processes.
We all need to know one essential and universally valid truth:
The only system that can keep us permanently healthy or heal us is our immune system. Its proper functioning is expressed through the body’s self-healing, self-repairing, and self-cleansing processes. If this system is not turned off or partially limited by stress, we cannot get sick, and the body functions the way it was designed. All bodily processes run correctly and in a way that benefits health.
But if we do fall ill, it means we are living in physiological stress. Illness is only a reflection of our inner state, to which we can turn our attention. Through inner work and self-awareness, we can deprogram the fears stored in our subconscious, which trigger the body’s stress response in situations that are not truly life-threatening.
To consciously influence the processes in the body, we must understand that "not all stress is the same." There are different types and intensities of stress, each with its own consequences:
Instinctive Reactive Stress
This type of stress is triggered by a life-threatening situation and is hardwired into our DNA. Its sole purpose is to save our lives, and the stress response occurs automatically. The reactive mind bypasses the logical mind. In other words, when faced with a threat to life, we don’t think—we act automatically.
In such a situation, the stress response completely shuts down the immune system. Cells go into closed mode: they stop absorbing nutrients, glucose, oxygen, and they stop eliminating waste. Everything not essential to survival is switched off so that blood and energy can be redirected to large muscles. Fight or flight.
This state, however, lasts only as long as the immediate danger—seconds or minutes. After it passes, the body returns to chemical balance.
Conclusion: This type of stress is not a health issue—it’s designed to save our lives and it actually can.
Mental Stress Triggered by Fear-Based Thoughts
This kind of stress stems from thoughts of fear, always tied to the future, and based on past experiences and how the mind interpreted them at the time. It happens even though there’s no real danger in the present moment when the thought and resulting feeling occur.
We all experience these fear-driven thoughts—countless times—and we don’t even realize it. We don’t know that we live in fear. We don’t know that we live in stress. It happens automatically, based on fearful memories stored in the subconscious mind. Subconscious, because most of the experiences we’ve lived through we don’t even consciously remember, but they’re all there. Every single one.
A current situation may then trigger a memory that resonates with fear, causing us to feel afraid—even though, considering the current circumstances, there is no real reason to be afraid. We fear something that hasn’t even happened—and likely never will. It’s simply our mind projecting fear of the future, originating in the past.
The brain doesn’t know what’s real and what’s not. It follows the mind. As a result of this fear and its accompanying thought, the brain releases a chemical cocktail of stress hormones, and the body enters a stress response. Mental stress isn’t as intense as life-threatening stress, but the frequency of fear-based thoughts we’re unaware of is so high that stress has become a constant part of our lives. It has become physiological. We’ve grown so used to living in stress that we’ve forgotten what a stress-free childhood felt like, and we’ve come to accept stress as “normal.”
The result of less intense physiological stress is that the immune system is not completely shut down but only limited, and the cells are not in a fully closed state, but they function in a restricted mode. However, because this state is constant, long-term, and disrupts the body's chemical balance, a toxic environment forms in the body, ultimately leading to disease. The illness will manifest in the part of the body that, in a specific individual, is the "weakest link in the chain."
In conclusion, this type of stress is our problem and leads us to illness. The path to long-term health lies in deprogramming fears stored in our subconscious so the body’s stress response is no longer triggered in situations that do not threaten our lives.
Why is this important when considering the effects of tiger nut and other superfoods?
Stress affects the entire biology of the body, which is closely linked to the utilization of the nutritional substances and health benefits these foods provide. Stress, in various intensities, disables the immune system, and cells begin functioning in a closed mode. The purpose of the stress code embedded in our DNA is to save our lives. In life-threatening situations, fear is justified—but it should only last as long as necessary. If it persists, a toxic environment develops in which cells stop functioning in a healthy way. They begin to die, degenerate, and may even turn against the body. This is the case, for example, with cancer or autoimmune diseases.
In all other situations that don’t involve immediate danger, fear projected by the mind should not be part of our lives, because it triggers the body’s stress response in situations where there is no real threat.
That is why all diseases are psychosomatic.
They are rooted in the mind projecting fear in situations that are not life-threatening.
This was a simplified theory of stress. Now, let's look at how stress affects processes in the body.
Let’s emphasize the most important point again:
Fear is the trigger of the body’s stress response.
And stress essentially means that everything not necessary for survival and that consumes energy gets shut down or closed off during the period of perceived danger. Cells close, and the immune system shuts down.
What does this mean for the health of the body?
Until now, we believed that if we eat healthy, we’ll also be healthy. But a healthy diet alone is not enough to ensure lasting health. If it were, we would never get sick. And yet—even with a healthy diet—we do fall ill.
Why?
Because of stress and its effects on bodily processes.
Digestion
"About 70% of the immune system lives in the gut.
Bacteria teach the immune system how to respond to harmful organisms that could threaten health."
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
"Microbes are great. They help the body a lot.
But they’re still microbes.
We need to set a friendly boundary, which is the mucus layer.
Mucus is perfect for this—it’s semi-permeable,
allowing nutrients and other substances to pass through.
But it doesn’t let microbes go further.
If you stop eating fiber, your gut microbes still need to eat something.
So they start eating the mucus as a backup food source.
The mucus layer then starts thinning.
Your bacteria then reach parts of the body where they absolutely shouldn’t be.
When local immune cells detect them, they go into defense mode.
This can trigger inflammatory wars and alter your gut’s microbial makeup.
It’s one of the things that can lead to diseases like inflammatory bowel disease or certain types of irritable bowel syndrome."
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
Various viruses and bacteria enter the digestive system with food—some beneficial, some harmful.
The immune system’s job is to deal with harmful ones immediately. The health of the gut is crucial for overall body health because digestion creates nutrition for cells, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream. Blood then delivers nutrients to the cells.
So gut health is directly connected to the quality of nutrition that reaches the cells via the blood.
This is why approximately 70% of the immune system resides in the gut—to make sure nothing gets into the bloodstream that shouldn’t be there.
But the problem is, stress disables or limits the function of the immune system. In this compromised state, it can’t handle harmful microbes effectively, leading to inflammatory processes.
If we are not aware of the gut microbiome, and we don’t consume enough fiber, the microbiome is underfed and starts to feed on the mucus that protects our body from microbes entering the bloodstream and reaching places they shouldn’t.
If we’re under stress, and our immune system is weakened, while at the same time our microbiome is underfed, the consequences appear very quickly in the form of inflammations—either in the gut or in the bloodstream. Bacteria reach places they don’t belong, and the immune system can’t fight them off. These inflammations are then carried by the blood to the cells, affecting not only cell health but the health of the entire body.
Nutrient Transport and Cellular Absorption
Physiological stress not only reduces immune function but also causes cells to partially shut down, limiting their ability to absorb nutrients.
If we live in a stress state (which is the case for most of us), but still feed our gut microbiome regularly with a diet rich in fiber and healthy carbohydrates, we help maintain healthy digestion and gut cleanliness.
In such a supportive environment, even a limited immune system can function better, since a satisfied microbiome means less work. This results in higher quality and quantity of nutrition reaching the cells, and better absorption of nutrients into the blood.
However, for cells to absorb these nutrients fully, they must not be in a closed state caused by physiological stress.
This means that even if the blood is full of high-quality nutrients, the cells might not absorb them completely.
If this cellular undernourishment persists over time, it impacts cell health and also the energy available to the body for daily activity.
Therefore, physiological stress is also linked to a lack of energy at the cellular level, which we recognize as burnout or chronic fatigue syndrome.