{"id":120300,"date":"2021-03-07T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/operator-syndrome-managing-high-allostatic-load"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:52:16","slug":"operator-syndrome-managing-high-allostatic-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/operator-syndrome-managing-high-allostatic-load","title":{"rendered":"Operator Syndrome: Managing High Allostatic Load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/operator-syndrome-managing-high-allostatic-load2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of \u201cAllostatic Load\u201d and \u201cOperator Syndrome?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/keaohou\/2012\/10\/17\/frueh-psychology\/\">Christopher Frueh<\/a> while doing some research on physiological, psychological and hormonal stress mitigation. Frueh, along with his team of researchers, psychologists and former SOF operators, has been exploring the human mind, defining PTSD and outlining Special Operator\u2019s Syndrome. This is one of the only programs in the country specifically designed to help those suffering from this condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllostatic load\u201d is the cost on your body of chronic stress and physical demands of a career with the military special forces, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/neuroscience\/allostatic-load\">Science Direct<\/a>. The military recipe for \u201cburning the candle at both ends\u201d includes high intensity physical fitness training, the high stress of operations and being away from home, the trauma of witnessing death, war or injury. Add in the inability to sleep or eat well, and the operator limits the two main recovery responses, which leads to chronic stress. This adds up to Allostatic Overload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of \u201cAllostatic Load\u201d and \u201cOperator Syndrome?\u201d I stumbled across the work of Christopher Frueh while doing some research on physiological, psychological and hormonal stress mitigation. Frueh, along with his team of researchers, psychologists and former SOF operators, has been exploring the human mind, defining PTSD and outlining Special Operator\u2019s Syndrome. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}