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Helder Barroso
Jan 4, 20202 min read
Can meditation help with stress?
When done on a regular, sustained basis (that is to say, something close to daily, for fifteen, thirty minutes at a time), meditation...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 19, 20192 min read
Stress can wreak havoc with our body - Exercise
Stress can wreak havoc with your metabolism, raise your blood pressure, burst your white blood cells, make you flatulent, ruin your sex...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 19, 20192 min read
Sleep Deprivation is a Stressor
As we glide down into slow wave sleep, some obvious things occur to facets of the stress-response system. For starters, the sympathetic...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 17, 20192 min read
Chronic Stress and Disease Risk
Can some physiological response to your average, run-of-the-mill mammalian stressor, if too long or too frequent, get you into trouble?...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 16, 20195 min read
Immune System Basics
The primary job of the immune system is to defend the body against infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 14, 20193 min read
Can stress cause or worsen IBS symptoms?
Broadly, there are two types of gastrointestinal disorders. In the first, you feel terrible, something isn’t working right, and the...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 11, 20194 min read
How does stress affect your bowel movement?
I for one no I am stressed, because when this happens I am in the toilet pretty regularly. This is the purview of the gastrointestinal...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 10, 20194 min read
Stress and Food Consumption
When you are stressed do you tend to eat everything in sight, in a mindless mechanical way? Or are you on the opposite side of the scale,...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 28, 20193 min read
How can we reduce stress?
The physiology of stress and relaxation So, why do we want to build in daily rest time? Well, to understand this, we have to understand...
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Helder Barroso
Jul 31, 20193 min read
Stress And Cardiovascular Disease
It's one of those unexpected emergencies: you are walking down the street, on your way to meet a friend for dinner. You are already...
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Helder Barroso
Jul 30, 20193 min read
It All Starts With The Brain
Just think, the next time you are about to have sex, do you feel your heart beating faster?, yourself feeling a little hotter, even...
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Helder Barroso
Jul 23, 20194 min read
Stress Can Make Us Sick
A critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can be either caused or...
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Helder Barroso
Apr 23, 20197 min read
HRV - Heart Rate Variability
In the last 4 weeks I have been doing a lot of research when it comes to HRV, along any research I have been doing I have also been...
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Helder Barroso
Jan 23, 20192 min read
The Consequences of Hypocortisolism
What is Hypocortisolism? Hypocortisolism is when levels of cortisol itself switch from being chronically elevated to being too low....
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Helder Barroso
Jan 10, 20191 min read
Fat Loss With High Stress Levels.
If you are embarking on a fat loss journey and you are starting off already with high levels of chronic psychological or life stress,...
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Helder Barroso
Jan 8, 20194 min read
Gender Differences In The Response To Stress Before Exercise Is Added To The Equation.
While all stressors cause a relatively similar stress response (hormonally at least), there are gender differences in how the system...
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Helder Barroso
Jan 2, 20193 min read
How Cortisol Affects Bodyweight
While obesity can lead to an over-activated hypothalamus , stress and cortisol also play a major role in the overall control of...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 28, 20183 min read
Cortisol
The hormone cortisol is actually one of several hormones that are grouped under the heading of corticosteroids but I will refer to them...
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Helder Barroso
Dec 23, 20182 min read
What Is Stress?
Stress can be defined as anything that throws your body out of allostatic balance. Stress comes in many ways: INJURY - STARVING - TOO HOT...
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