Health Information During a Time of Stress

The Importance of Touch I am writing once again a summary from Dr. Rangan Chatterjee's book: The Stress Solution. This week's blog is a summary of chapter 4 --- "Human Touch." I am focusing on this because we are all starving for it right now.          When I orginally read this chapter I was amazed at all of the research that he did, and some of the findings that he came up with.         The main thing he said in this chapter was that a lack of human touch in your life can have devastating consequences.              I believe it. I am a touchy/feeling type of person. I hug, kiss cheeks etc. When I'm in the classrooom I often have to "move" students back in their seats to get to the student that is having an issue with their computer. All of that is gone now. My poor cat, Charlie, has never gotten so many back rubs and brushings. Dr. Chatterjee says, "As our social world is becoming increasingly visua...

How Exercise Diminishes Stress Studies have shown that exercise can benefit you from a variety of psychological and physical effects, including depression and anxiety; and that it can be even more effective than anti-anxiety medication. It does this in many different ways. Exercise gives your body what it needs to defeat stress: a physical exercise that helps us get out of the fight-or-flight mode. I have been walking or biking nearly every day for the past three weeks and I am feeling much less anxious. When we exercise, levels of different stress hormones rise, such as cortisol and adrenailine , which go up for a short time while exercising. And at the same time, these stress hormones also rise when we are psychologically stressed. The exact same physiological response . Regular physical exercise teaches the body to recover faster from this effect. It's like you are conditioning your body to sluff off your everyday stress. Next time you are feeking overwhelme...

I have been either walking or biking every day since all of this Coronavirus has started. Because I have been doing daily aerobic activity I have been sleeping better, having better daily blood sugar results, and less anxiety We all are going through daily MSDs ( Micro-Stress-Doses ) every minute of every day due to this virus. Human beings are not constructed to deal with MSDs in a pro-longed state. When that happens it can turn into chronic diseases like arthritis, cardiac disease, diabetes 2, depression, high blood pressure and other chroniuc conditions. That being said there are things that you can do to minimize the effects  of MSD's.  I have been reading the book, " The Stress Solution ," by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, and I am totally supportive of buying and reading this book, and I get no payback on this. It's a great book and I guarantee you would benefit from Dr. Chatterjee's sage advice. In this book Dr. Chatterjee talks about a complete re...