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Stress- at least its not all in your head!

There is some exciting news coming from researchers at the NIH about stress research and the mechanisms involved in both succumbing to stress and effectively dealing with stress.

Researchers have discovered, even though in a mouse model, that dealing with stress successfully involves a different molecular mechanism than becoming overwhelmed by stress. The brain regions tested by the mouse model are also present in the human brain, hence allowing for the possibility to develop proper treatments for stress induced mental illness.

Health Quotes

In the health quote category you will find maxims of famous, and not so famous people about health and health care.

The image of earth as a living organism and nurturing mother served as a cultural constraint restricting the actions of human beings. One does not readily slay a mother, dig into her entrails for gold, or mutilate her body... As long as the earth was considered to be alive and sensitive, it could be considered a breach of human ethical behavior to carry out destructive acts against it. (1)

Carolyn Merchant

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1. Merchant C. Quoted in Fritjof Capra."The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture" (1982) Bantam Books.

New York. p.61