Tag: stress

The popular phrase, "stress is a killer," unfortunately holds a lot of truth. When your body releases stress hormones, your heart rate, blood pressure...

Trigger points are tiny knots that can develop in a muscle if it is injured or overstressed. It’s a common cause of joint paint...

Medicine is a very demanding profession, and it is estimated that between 20 and 60 percent of doctors experience burnout at some point. This...

More, more, more... better, better, better. Ever since the war, Japan has held one common goal - to be bigger, better and wealthier than...

Mindfulness, an important aspect of meditation centered around conscious awareness and focus on the present, can be highly beneficial to overall well-being. A growing...

So, what happens to you when you are in a stressful situation? Does your heart start to pound and do your palms sweat? Most...

The old-fashioned diagnostic generality “nervous stomach” may be more accurate than once thought. When we become stressed, our digestive system often ceases to work...

Former top researcher at Microsoft, Linda Stone, noticed she had a tendency to hold her breath while reading or responding to emails and decided...

A study published earlier this fall in Psychology of Popular Media Culture found a link between text messaging and quality of sleep: the more...

The holiday season often brings higher levels of anxiety, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Too many of us become incredibly stressed...