Posts Tagged ‘stress’
The benefits of holidays
How well deserved holiday feel! However, there are those who feel guilty if they have “activity” work … No way! Indeed, the very fact of taking a vacation is part of work duties.
In the Nordic countries are forcing workers to take vacations in sunny countries, because in this way the rest of the year will be motivated and not fall into depression (without the sun, the sadness is guaranteed).
Moreover, reducing the daily burden of stress is key to preventing health problems and maintain our healthy appearance. This is mainly due to epinephrine, that not all people get cut. Hence the need to take a break, cut off from the routine and labor chaos.
It has been shown that the country with more health problems due to lack of vacation is Japan. His obsession with work takes them neglecting their stress levels, causing casualties, premature aging, etc. No value is silly holidays, is a part of our life we use to advantage. And not always as easy as it sounds.
Medicinal Herbs For Anxiety and Stress
Today, the pace of modern life, work pressures, homework, all plotted to make it more difficult to live peaceful and far from stress or excessive anxiety, and the truth is that these chronic disorders can undermine our health and its aftermath left on our body and mood.
Lemon balm (also known as Melissa) is one of the most popular herbs for greater peace, and have other outstanding qualities: it has sedative properties, spasmolytic, choleretic (for liver function), carminative (promotes the release of gases) and antibacterial.
According to the ESCOP (The European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy) balm can be used via internal (one of the most common ways is through infusions) in situations of tension, restlessness and irritability.
So also is advised for the symptomatic treatment of digestive disorders (mild spasms, for example) that are usually present when you are going through a box of distress and / or anxiety.
Another basic plants for these cases is valerian, specifically, its roots are with the special preparations that are suitable for times of turmoil or even when the sleep disorders.
In domestic uses also its most used is through infusions. Anyway, it is necessary to make an exception: according to ESCOP supply is not recommended for children under three years.
It is always advisable that, with any doubts or before eating, and even more if you are under any drug treatment, so check with your doctor, as these two herbs may interact with certain medications such as benzodiazepines, antihistamines H1 or even alcohol.
Stress aging until a decade
Stress and aging
In the privacy of sensitive genetic mechanisms governing cell division and multiplication, scientists first found evidence that the anticipated stress aging.
The finding of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at the University of California shows that an accumulation of stressful situations can add many more years to the DNA of a person than his actual chronological age.
The scientists found that blood cells from women who had spent most of their lives caring for a disabled child were, genetically speaking, a decade older than the same cells of those mothers who had less time in the same difficult task.
The study, which appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, also suggests that the perception of being stressed can add years genetic biological age of a person.
Though doctors have linked chronic psychological stress to weakened immune function and increased risk of infection, still trying to understand how that tension damages and weakens the body’s tissues.