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Stress isn’t only a negative emotion or inconvenience. It can have detrimental impacts on your mental and physical health. Your body can handle stress in small doses, but ongoing, chronic stress can impact your muscles, cardiovascular health, gastrointestinal systems, and respiratory health, [...]
I think it’s fair to say that stress is a problem for almost everyone these days! And if you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for natural ways to reduce stress and bolster your health. One surprising natural stress reliever you might not know about? The California poppy. [...]
When tough times bring you down, your ability to cope in a positive way is known as resilience. An essential skill for healthy development in childhood, resilience is critical to wellbeing throughout our lifetime. The overriding question is this: as adults can we increase our capacity for [...]
The Great Defender: that’s our immune system, uniquely designed to keep us healthy and defend against illness and infection. Made up of organs, including the skin, lungs, and gut, as well as specialized cells, the immune system’s job is to remain on alert for disease-causing invaders [...]
No one writes down on my medical practice questionnaires that they eat because they are stressed. People say that they eat for a reward, or are lonely or bored, or are happy or angry or frustrated, or because they want to. Scientists who study workplace health group say those [...]
Chronic stress affects productivity and the bottom line. It also increases and worsens heart disease, stroke, impotence, hypertension, back problems and depression. Obesity and flu go up too. Stress can kill…or at least injure. It causes rigidity and diminishes the ability to help others. [...]