Category: Stress
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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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One of the top 10 ways in which stress can hurt you is insomnia, which has become a growing issue for stressed workers today. One of the principle reasons for this is Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb.
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If you are suffering from headaches, especially the tension headaches we associate with stress, don’t assume you will always need to take a prescription drug, or otherwise be doomed to enduring the pain.
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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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Four days into its maiden voyage, it struck an iceberg, which should have been survivable.
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When we are under stress, we often are distracted from what we eat. That’s why we are seeing obesity and heart disease increase as our daily lives get more challenged.