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Is Stress Zapping Your Energy?

Chronic stress can wear down your system, leading to burnout, poor immune function, and low energy. Learn how stress drains your energy levels and what you can do to reboot and recharge at the cellular level. In collaboration with Troscriptions.

No matter what you do, are you still feeling tired and run down? When this happens, a lot of us make time for a little catnap, cancel our weekend plans in favor of lounging around, or make an effort to get to bed earlier. While these efforts to rest are all well and good, they don’t guarantee we’ll replenish our energy reserves. Even when we prioritize and optimize sleep, movement, nutrition, and connection it doesn’t always boost our energy levels. Why? Because there may be a silent saboteur zapping your energy: stress. To prime your body for better stress regulation and resilience, sometimes a more targeted approach is needed—one that is formulated to work with your body’s natural rhythms. Let’s learn about the link between stress and low energy and how Troscriptions’ formulas, specifically Tro Calm™ and Tro Mune™, can provide the extra oomph your system needs to reboot and recharge at the cellular level.  

Stress, particularly chronic stress, disrupts your body’s energy levels at a cellular and hormonal level. You see, stress triggers the release of cortisol (appropriately nicknamed the “stress hormone”), which is part of your body’s “fight-or-flight” response. Its job: to help the body respond to a perceived threat by mobilizing energy resources, increasing your alertness, and preparing the body for action. 

Ideally, this alarm system, so to speak, turns on when you encounter an actual threat and then shuts off when you’re out of harm’s way, switching you over into a state of “rest and digest.” But when you experience long-term, constant stress—from demanding jobs, financial hardships, strained personal relationships—or don’t have the right tools at the ready to help you downregulate your stress response, cortisol stays elevated. This is when acute stress becomes chronic, takes hold of your body, and starts to deplete your energy levels.

Burnout: Your Brain on Overload

When your cortisol levels remain elevated for a prolonged period of time, it can alter your brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex (the area responsible for focus and decision-making) as well as the amygdala (the fear center). In other words, it’s more likely you’ll experience anxiety, foggy thinking, and irritability. Over time, your brain adapts to living in this “fight-or-flight” state perpetually by dampening your stress response, which means you feel emotionally blunted, detached, and exhausted. That’s burnout. If you think of your body as a car, it’s like you’re running its engine without oil…eventually, something will seize.

Chronic Stress, Weak Immune System

Cortisol also suppresses immune responses. While this is helpful in the short term (you wouldn’t want your body distracted trying to fight a disease if you were trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger, would you?), long-term immune suppression has adverse effects. Your white blood cell production drops, inflammatory cytokines rise, and your body becomes less effective at fighting viruses, bacteria, and even cancerous cells. Studies have long shown that chronic stress is associated with longer recovery times, increased susceptibility to colds, and worse outcomes from infections (Mariotti, 2015). Put bluntly: You’re not just “run down” from chronic stress—you become immunologically compromised.

Low Energy and Mitochondrial Dysfunction

When you experience stress signals, your body prioritizes survival over vitality. This means fewer resources go to muscle repair, hormone production, or digestion. On a cellular level, this means damage to your mitochondria (the little power plants in your cells), which leads to a real, biological drop in cellular energy. So even if you are eating, moving, and sleeping to recharge your energy reserves, the systems in place to convert that energy may be shot. No amount of napping will help because that chronic stress is constantly tapping your energy supply, and your cells are literally running on empty.

How to Get Your Energy Back

While we often think of stress as purely psychological, it has very real physical effects. It depletes your emotional reserves, dismantles your immune defenses, and disrupts your energy production at the cellular level. But here’s the truth: Stress will never disappear. All you can do is make stress management a part of your daily routine, which can include using targeted, cellular support that works with your body’s natural systems.

Both Tro Calm™ and Tro Mune™ by Troscriptions are formulated by physicians to help regulate your stress response and prime your immune system to remain resilient. Made with a blend of CBG, CBD, N-nicotinoyl-GABA, and Piper methysticum (commonly known as kava), Tro Calm™ can relieve stress, decrease anxiousness, quiet your noisy mind, and promote calm productivity and focus. While Tro Calm™ can make it easier to navigate life’s stresses with more ease, Tro Mune™ is formulated to encourage immune resilience. Thanks to the power of cordycepin, it serves as a shield to protect and heal, decreasing inflammation, fighting off foreign invaders, enhancing detoxification, and acting as a neuroprotector—all while increasing deep, restorative sleep. 

Energize and Optimize Yourself With Troscriptions

Don’t let stress suck your body’s energy supply. Calm your mind and body with Tro Calm™ and strengthen your immune system with Tro Mune™. Individually, each of these formulas is a great addition to your stress management routine, but used together, they are powerful—the perfect duo to fight the effects of stress from every angle. Plus, they’re really easy to take and the dose can be personalized, thanks to the buccal troche delivery method. Whether you swallow or dissolve the square troche, use it regularly or only when needed, you can count on Troscriptions’ formulations to work fast and effectively because they harness the power of nature to relax your nervous system, protect your immune system, and revitalize your energy.  

Try Tro Calm™, Tro Mune™, or both today and feel energized like never before. Use the code “AGEIST” for 10% off at checkout.

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The ideas expressed here are solely the opinions of the author and are not researched or verified by AGEIST LLC, or anyone associated with AGEIST LLC. This material should not be construed as medical advice or recommendation, it is for informational use only. We encourage all readers to discuss with your qualified practitioners the relevance of the application of any of these ideas to your life. The recommendations contained herein are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. You should always consult your physician or other qualified health provider before starting any new treatment or stopping any treatment that has been prescribed for you by your physician or other qualified health provider. Please call your doctor or 911 immediately if you think you may have a medical or psychiatric emergency.

Margaret May
Margaret is a writer, freelance copyeditor, avid home cook, former teacher, and creative close-looker. Since 2019, she has been freelancing, contributing editorially to several print and digital publications. At AGEIST, she is a contributing writer and a senior editor. Originally from Fairfield County, CT, she now resides on Cape Cod, MA. Connect with Margaret at margaret@weareageist.com, www.yomarge.com, and margaretmay.substack.com.

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