Category: Stress Strategies
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One of the most difficult of all addictions is to nicotine. It is said by addicts and therapists alike to be a more difficult substance to quit than alcohol, morphine, or even heroin.
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Iron is one of the key building blocks of your next batch of red blood cells. These cells last only about three months, and are constantly needing replacement by the marrow. If our iron levels fall, then we can end up anemic, and, commonly, fatigued.
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After a series of weeks filled with deadlines, pressures at work, and the excitement of preparing for holidays, it can be a great strategy to block out time to do nothing at all
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One of the most common complaints I see in the office is that of an elevated cholesterol. Not just in middle aged male executives, but even in otherwise fit twenty and thirty year old men and women.
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Back pain has become more common in the computer age than it was in the agricultural age. This may appear puzzling, because we are no longer working the land, we are now working the hand. Or at least both hands, at a keyboard.
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Famine is rare in the western world. If anything, our health is more threatened by too much food instead of too little. But now we have created a huge time famine.
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In a recent post, we discussed common stress complaints from real patients in our clinic. Over half of our stressed patients admitted to depression as one of their problems.
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When patients complain of fatigue, general achiness, stomach cramps, headaches, and lack of focus, Doctors are often baffled. They are basically flipping through one chapter after another in their mental database, trying to find one disease that will expain all.
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Just like a car has its “check engine” light, the human body has its panel of stress-alarms. With times as turbulent as they are now, it is good to review our three lines of stress defense, before something breaks down.
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One of the common complaints I hear in my offices is about effects of stress on the stomach. These can include acid reflux, upper abdominal pains, waking up with gas or wet “burps” full of acid. eating too fast Doctors are trained to take a history, examine the patient, then take images (X-rays, ultrasound or…