While I usually try to keep my blogs mostly focused on interesting health and wellness topics of general interest, I am going to divert away from that in the next couple of blogs as I cover a personal experience I had gone through recently. What is it, you may be asking? I have been living with a … [Read More...]
Worries will happen in life. In fact, in some ways it’s healthy to feel occasional stress. However, worry is not productive, according to Jason Moser, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. “It’s something we do over and over again, without … [Read More...]
Like foods, nutritional supplements are effective in helping us to establish sufficient amount of nutrients needed to achieve and maintain our body's ability to handle stressful events. As a matter of fact, unless you have your own organic garden, our food sources are more and more depleted of … [Read More...]
As a fourth part of our Anti-Stress blogs, let's take a look at something we all love to do and that is EAT! Here is a list of top 5 stress reducing foods that you can indulge on to deal with your stress. However, please do be careful as some of us may be allergic to certain food items. Please … [Read More...]
We have discussed so far about how the body handles stress and the strong connection between stress, adrenal hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine, and cortisol) and insulin interaction as we manage stress. Today, I am going a step further as we look at adrenal hormones interactions with DHEA and … [Read More...]
To help us handle stress, adrenaline affects a variety of different parts of our body function. For example, it functions as a hormone (a well known fact) as described in our last blog, and as a neurotransmitter in the brain (not so well known). Our body produces adrenaline in large quantity in … [Read More...]
