The Immune System Stress Connection
*This is an article from the Fall 2023 issue of Contentment Magazine. By Cynthia Ackrill, MD, PCC, [...]
Read This To Find Out If You’re Addicted To Stress
Overloading stress can have some substantial consequences. This semester, I decided to take the maximum [...]
Stress at work may raise men’s risk for heart disease
Men who experience high levels of work-related stress and feel underappreciated at work may be [...]
Stress, weight gain, and mood swings: Is cortisol causing these?
Stress is a typical part of life, but when it becomes chronic, it can produce [...]
Chronic stress suffered by women survivors of gender violence alters their stress response system
Gender-based violence affects between 20% and 30% of women in Europe and North America, and [...]
Go From Fight-Or-Flight To Rest-And-Digest
Do you sometimes find your shoulders up to your ears? I do, and when I [...]
How stress changes your body chemistry — and your future
Stress is a complex phenomenon. On one hand, stress hormones are essential for life. Epinephrine [...]
5 Signs You’re Over-Stressed + 5 Quick Brain-Based Cures
Humans aren’t designed to live with excessive stress. Yet over the past few years we’ve [...]
The science behind stress eating
We’ve all heard that we should lower our stress to improve our sleep, blood pressure [...]
8 Ways to Protect Yourself From Stress
If there’s one thing that unites us all, it’s stress. Everyone experiences stress on some level [...]