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The Adrenal & Thyroid Relationship and Mouth Infection & Adrenal Fatigue

Question: How much work do the thyroid and adrenal glands share, and how do they hand off their responsibilities? The thyroid and the adrenal glands have different responsibilities, and don’t exactly “hand off” tasks, but they work closely together in … Continue reading

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What is Adrenal Fatigue?

What is adrenal fatigue? Your adrenal glands respond to every internal and external stress you experience by preparing your body to react to the stressor while maintaining your life-preserving homeostasis. They do this via the various hormones they produce, the … Continue reading

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Maintaining Sanity in Times of Stress: Stress Management Tips

Create a sense of control over the situation (or your response to it) A diminished sense of control or mastery over life is a risk factor for depression, and hopelessness can literally transform stress into depression.12 Increasing your sense of … Continue reading

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Maintaining Sanity in Times of Stress: How Stress Affects Mental Health

It’s not hard to see the physical effects of too much stress; things like muscle tension, fatigue, blood sugar imbalances and rising blood pressure (or dropping blood pressure with adrenal fatigue) are easy to recognize. However, sometimes stress takes an … Continue reading

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Let’s Talk About Sex … and Stress: Supporting Your Sexual Response

Sex as natural stress relief Some studies show that short term stress or anxiety can actually increase sexual response and sex hormone production. In this type of stress, a branch of the nervous system called the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about sex … and stress: The effects of stress on sex drive

It’s a Friday evening, and you’re looking forward to a special evening alone with your partner. You collect your things to leave the office … when your boss dumps an extra project on your desk for the weekend. Then some … Continue reading

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How to Save Your Sleep and Manage Stress

How to save your sleep and manage your stress Now that we’ve discussed the sleep-stress connection, let’s talk about how to save that precious sleep and better manage stress. Higher subjective ratings of stress during the day are associated with … Continue reading

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Got Stress? How’s Your Sleep?

The sleep-stress connection Who hasn’t experienced a restless night full of tossing and turning from worry about a test, interview or presentation the next day? Stress and worry affect your quality of sleep which, in turn, affects your ability to … Continue reading

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Saving Sleep, Sex and Sanity in a Stressful World: Introduction

Got stress? That’s a pretty easy question to answer, and one to which most of us would reply to with an emphatic “Yes!” Here’s another question: How’s your sleep, sex and sanity? Most of us can name at least one … Continue reading

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Signs and Symptoms of Stress

In order to get a true grasp on stress, you first must learn how to recognize it in yourself. The mind, body and judgment are affected by stress in many ways, and they’re all directly tied to the physiological changes … Continue reading

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