Light in the middle of the night reduces dopamine levels to a point where it can start causing problems such as learning difficulties,...

When done on a regular, sustained basis (that is to say, something close to daily, for fifteen, thirty minutes at a time), meditation...

Stress can wreak havoc with your metabolism, raise your blood pressure, burst your white blood cells, make you flatulent, ruin your sex...

As we glide down into slow wave sleep, some obvious things occur to facets of the stress-response system. For starters, the sympathetic...

Can some physiological response to your average, run-of-the-mill mammalian stressor, if too long or too frequent, get you into trouble?...

The primary job of the immune system is to defend the body against infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The...

Broadly, there are two types of gastrointestinal disorders. In the first, you feel terrible, something isn’t working right, and the...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Just think, the next time you are about to have sex, do you feel your heart beating faster?, yourself feeling a little hotter, even...

A critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can be either caused or...

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...

What is Hypocortisolism? Hypocortisolism is when levels of cortisol itself switch from being chronically elevated to being too low....

If you are embarking on a fat loss journey and you are starting off already with high levels of chronic psychological or life stress,...

While all stressors cause a relatively similar stress response (hormonally at least), there are gender differences in how the system...

While obesity can lead to an over-activated hypothalamus , stress and cortisol also play a major role in the overall control of...

The hormone cortisol is actually one of several hormones that are grouped under the heading of corticosteroids but I will refer to them...

Stress can be defined as anything that throws your body out of allostatic balance. Stress comes in many ways: INJURY - STARVING - TOO HOT...