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?...

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...

One of the key ingredients when I work with clients is to manage their stress levels and this is something I am very concerned about for...

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...

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...

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