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Exercising for stress relief? Have fun!

If your stress response system is compromised, either reacting too much or too little, it is important to tailor the amount of exercise to a level your body can handle. This is because high intensity exercise or exercise of an … Continue reading

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Adrenal Fatigue and Lifestyle: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Separating the Good from the Bad and the Ugly It is important to be able to distinguish which things in your life are contributing to your health and which things are detracting from it. A good first step in helping … 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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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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Stress and Digestion Part 3-Rescuing Your Digestive System

Rescuing Your Digestive System Although it is not possible to avoid all stress, it is beneficial to keep stress at a manageable level and allow your parasympathetic nervous system to have a chance to repair your body. Here are some … Continue reading

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Stress and Digestion Part 2-When Stress Takes Over

Stress and Your Digestive System Any stress you experience, be it physical or emotional, activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers production of adrenal hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol, that prepare your body to deal with the stress. This … Continue reading

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Stress and Digestion Part 1-Digestion and the Nervous System

Healthy Digestive Function A healthy digestive system has a number of functions: 1. To break down food into small nutritional components that provide the vitamins, minerals, proteins, water and energy needed to maintain health. 2. To collect toxins, dead cells … Continue reading

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