ext/javascript”> I think that there is a stigma against stress.  Maybe I’m wrong but when I talk to people about it, it seems to me that women will admit to being stressed, but dismiss it as just being the way life is; and men either don’t admit to feeling it at all, or see it [...]

Stress has far reaching effects on your body.  One of those things is that it encourages the release of certain hormones into your bloodstream.  Of these, norepinephrine (adrenaline) seems to have the particularly nasty habit of stimulating tumor cells to do a couple things – break down the tissue surrounding them so they can move [...]

I am not a great one for resorting to pills at the drop of a hat – but nor do I shirk it.  With the very highest respect to those women who do “natural childbirth” (whatever that is in this day and age), when I went in to deliver my twins, I wanted the very [...]

Unless you are at your peak of health, you need to try and relax.  At the very least, you should take steps to avoid getting stressed out further.  Why?  Well because stress harms your health in more ways than one.   You probably know that chronic stress by itself is known to contribute to many [...]

You go to the doctor and he or she can tell you what your cholesterol is, how your blood pressure reads and what you need to do to keep your body in tip top shape.  But there’s no doctor most people visit on a regular basis to examine your overall stress health and recommend a [...]