Einar Carl Axelsson, founder and owner of Primal Iceland, says he can see in his work that there is an epidemic of stress and anxiety in Iceland. Einar Carl, who is the new guest on Sölva Tryggvason’s podcast, has been working to help people after he had to completely change his tune following a serious accident. A new study conducted by students at the University of Iceland indicates that Primal Iceland is very successful in reducing anxiety, stress and depression.
“We had found that people said they felt a huge difference after class, but we didn’t have any data at hand. But this study, which is an undergraduate project from the Department of Psychology at the University of Iceland, shows us that what we do seems to produce huge results. In short, we were looking to see if there were any before and after clinical effects in the participants of our “Beating Stress” course. People who come to us suffer very often from anxiety, depression and stress, and those who conducted the study administered a detailed questionnaire to the participants before and after the course.It turns out that there is not only a difference, but a dramatic difference, and those who have seen the results are actually almost stunned by the numbers. The numbers are almost too good to be believed. For example, 11 out of 64 participants experienced symptoms of major depression before the course. After the course , the number had dropped to zero. Moderate symptoms went from 20 to 2 and so on. The group included both people in the labor market and people who had left the labor market. We knew we had a positive effect on anxiety and stress, but what surprised us the most was the effect our methods seem to have on depression. Of course, we want more research to confirm this, but it’s amazing how much you can change using movement, breathing and other things that involve the body.”
A change of pace in life
Einar Carl is a former national taekwondo team member who turned his life around after breaking his spine in five places in a skiing accident in the French Alps. He had to find every way to be able to move normally again, and after many years of traveling he founded the Primal Iceland gym.
Through his work there, he sees all the flora of people and gets a certain cut of the state of the nation, because a lot of those who look up to him are people who haven’t found solutions. elsewhere. He says there is an epidemic of burnout and stress in society and the age of those who experience it seems to be much lower than is often assumed.
“We would like that inside primary schools, children are informed about their nervous system, so that it is possible to intervene earlier, before there is a need for drugs or other solutions that come after symptoms get worse. We have developed a very strange norm in our society. It’s almost a given that people feel bad. Of course, great things are happening in schools across the country, but you have to we saw the importance of teaching children more about health, the nervous system and their own emotions,” says Einar, who says he has seen people under the age of 20 who have reached a state of burnout.
“A very large proportion of Icelanders sleep both too little and too badly. We now know that it negatively affects almost everything in the body. When you don’t sleep well, for example, the symptoms of ADHD increase dramatically. Matthew Walker , who is one of the world’s leading sleep experts, pointed this out. Of course, ADHD medications can work well on focus, but we also need to look at lifestyle and see where the ADHD medications are coming from. I’m not saying at all that medicine has no place, but you have to be able to agree that it is a more promising solution to attack the roots before the symptoms worsen.”
wants to help people
Einar Carl says he would like to see people from the health and healthcare sector come together and coordinate ways to help people, so that holistic solutions can be found.
“At the end of the day, you just want to help people. Whatever methods we use, they just have to work. There is nothing more important than getting people out of the grip of high anxiety, stress and depression. There is no better feeling than being able to help people who have been in this situation for a long time and seeing them smile again and get their guns back is amazing. That’s why I’m working on it,” he says.
The episode with Einari and all other Sölva episodes can be accessed at www:solvitryggva.is
