The math challenge was elementary, simple subtraction but the test taker opted not to try. He remained calm and composed on the outside. No worries. Inside, however, his heart rate raced, his breath rate climbed and when it was over, it took the heart and lungs quite a while to return to normal.

He laughed about the math challenge and went on with the NeuroFit Evaluation consciously unaware of what stress he’d just been under.

This is what’s causing 89% of Americans to die from chronic disease. It’s responsible for most of the maladies and extended recoveries we experience.

The physiology of the stress response is well known and documented. It’s role in the top diseases including heart disease, cancer and diabetes is well know. Yet stress remains unaddressed. This is the greatest disservice in medical and health care today!

Benchmark Health offers state-of-the-art ways to evaluate stress levels and their chronicity, decrease stress levels and retrain people in their stress response to minimize future stress.