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7 Habits That Are Secretly Messing With Your Cortisol
7 months, 2 weeks ago

7 Habits That Are Secretly Messing With Your Cortisol

Huff Post  

Kanawa_Studio via Getty Images Factors like too much alcohol and not enough sleep raise your body's levels of cortisol, your stress hormone. But “as with anything in our body, when it’s too high for too long or too low for too long, it becomes a problem.” Chronic high cortisol levels can lead to health issues like high blood pressure and …

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How posture and movement is connected to mood and stress : Body Electric : NPR
1 year ago

How posture and movement is connected to mood and stress : Body Electric : NPR

NPR  

It might not just be in your head. It all comes down to the inner part of our adrenal glands—the adrenal medulla—which releases adrenaline into the body, says Peter Strick, a leading neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh. "So we injected the adrenal medulla with a virus, and we traced it back into the brain all the way to the …

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Lifestyle choices, lack of proper sleep, food, exercise causing rise in heart attacks
2 years, 3 months ago

Lifestyle choices, lack of proper sleep, food, exercise causing rise in heart attacks

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: Lifestyle choices, increased stress levels, lack of sleep, nutritious food and exercise are primary causes of the rise in cases of heart attacks in relatively younger people, say experts. Lifestyle choices, lack of sleep, nutritious food and exercise, and increased stress levels are probably responsible for heart attacks in young people,” he said. Dr Ajit Menon, consultant, cardiac sciences …

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Feeling stressed? Quick breathing exercises to calm your nerves
3 years, 3 months ago

Feeling stressed? Quick breathing exercises to calm your nerves

Hindustan Times  

While feeling some amount of stress is quite normal and can actually make you achieve your goals, it can at times have an overpowering effect on you. Uncontrolled stress over a long period of time could lead to many chronic diseases like cardiac diseases, depression, diabetes, gastrointestinal issues. Pranayama or breathing exercise is one of the most effective techniques to …

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I am Covid positive and I have stopped eating because of stress. What should I do?
3 years, 7 months ago

I am Covid positive and I have stopped eating because of stress. What should I do?

India Today  

The country has been pushed into a devastating state because of the second wave of Covid-19. Covid positive people are losing their appetite Photo: Getty According to clinical psychologist Samriddhi Khatri from Delhi, stress and anxiety often force people to stop eating anything. She said, "High fever, difficulty in breathing at times and constant cough, are some physiological concerns relating …

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What is skin hunger?
3 years, 10 months ago

What is skin hunger?

The Hindu  

Arya M did not touch another person for three months after the country went into lockdown last year. “Over time, I missed the feeling of human touch; shaking hands, getting a pat and so on,” she recollects. This is called skin hunger and is a topic much discussed now due to the pandemic,” explains Vaishnaruby Shanmugaraj, senior clinical psychologist, Vazhikatti …

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