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Anxiety
and Stress - Life Extension Magazine
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- I am currently under a lot of stress. Is there an herb that I can take to help me deal with this stressful time in my life - Dr. Murray
- Best
stress relievers - MSNBC, 2/5/06
- Stress-Busting Help Comes From Hormone - WebMD, 8/2/04 -
"The people who reported fewer symptoms and who performed best at their military tasks had
"significantly higher" levels of the hormone DHEA-S compared with cortisol" [Abstract] - See
iHerb
 or
Vitacost
DHEA products.
- Stress, Cortisol and Health - Supplement Watch Newsletter, 10/02 -
"several lines of evidence have converged to solidify the
concept that stress makes us fat (because of cortisol), thins our bones (because of cortisol), shrinks our brains (because of cortisol), suppresses our immune system (because of cortisol), saps our energy levels (because of cortisol), and kills our sex drive (because of cortisol) ...
Take a daily multivitamin/multi-mineral supplement - because calcium, magnesium, vitamin C and B-complex vitamins are needed for a proper stress response ... Chief among the supplements with
documented cortisol-controlling effects are Phosphatidylserine, Beta-sitosterol, Magnolia bark, Theanine, Epimedium, Ashwagandha and
Passionflower"
- Putting the Reins on Stress - WebMD, 9/5/02
- Stress: The Hidden Factor For Weight Gain - Natural Foods Merchandiser, 4/02
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The
Ultimate Relaxant - Life Extension Magazine, 1/02 -
"Theanine is an amino acid found in green tea. It helps to produce a calming effect in the brain and induces a feeling of relaxation and well-being. Best of all, it does all of this without
causing drowsiness. In fact, studies have shown that theanine enhances the ability to learn and remember. One of the other benefits of this amino acid is that it helps to lower blood pressure naturally, by enhancing GABA in the brain"
- Stress: The Hidden Factor For Weight Gain - Nutrition Science News, 4/01
General Information:
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Stress - American Academy of Family Physicians
- Stress - emedicine.com
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Stress - FamilyDoctor.org
- Treatments for stress
 - Medifocus.com
Other News:
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Psychological Distress May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer - Medscape,
9/15/08 - "The team evaluated interactions between
breast cancer and severe life events -- such as loss of a parent or divorce
of parents before age 20, or loss of a close relative or spouse -- and mild
to moderate life events -- e.g., separation from a spouse, loss of a job, an
economic crisis, or severe illness in a close relative ... Multivariate
analysis revealed a positive association (odds ratio, 1.62) between exposure
to more than one adverse life event and breast cancer. "It wasn't enough to
be exposed to one life event, a woman had to be exposed to more than one
event,""
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Neurogenesis In Adult Brain: Association With Stress And Depression -
Science Daily, 8/31/08 - "Chronic stress can affect
the brain and lead into depression"
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Stress Hormone Found To Regulate Brain Neurotransmission - Science
Daily, 8/7/08 - "When we are subjected to a stress,
our adrenal glands secrete hormones that affect our entire body. One of
these hormones, cortisol, enables us to adapt physically and mentally to the
stimulus. Following a major or repeated stress that the individual has no
control over, however, cortisol is secreted in great quantities over a long
period of time. This hypersecretion has damaging effects on the individual,
to the point of accelerating aging and facilitating the onset of illnesses
such as depression"
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Stress May Increase A Woman's Risk Of Developing Cervical Cancer -
Science Daily, 2/15/08
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Stress At Work Is Linked To Heart Disease - Science Daily, 1/22/08 -
"chronic work stress was associated with CHD and
this association was stronger among both men and women aged under 50 --
their risk of CHD was an average of 68% more than for people who reported no
stress at work"
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Sept. 11 Stress Increases Risk Of Heart Problems, Study Suggests -
Science Daily, 1/7/08 - "Our study is the first to
show that even among people who had no personal connection to the victims,
those who reported high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms in the days
following the 9/11 attacks were more than twice as likely to report being
diagnosed by their doctors with cardiovascular ailments like high blood
pressure, heart problems and stroke up to three years later"
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Depression
Associated With Low Bone Mineral Density - Medscape, 12/3/07 -
"The novelty of this study is the fact that these
women were not severely depressed ... Depression is considered a disease of
chronic stress, Dr. Cizza said, with attendant increases in the stress
hormone cortisol, and cytokines produced by the immune system. "Those
substances are helpful to fight stress, but if there is too much cortisol or
cytokines, there are side effects," he said. "One of the side effects is
bone loss, so it was obvious to ask the question, 'do women with depression
have low bone mass?'""
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Stress Hormone May Hasten The Progression Of Certain Blood Cancers -
Science Daily, 11/19/07
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Feeling Stressed? How Your Skin, Hair And Nails Can Show It - Science
Daily, 11/12/07 - "When a person becomes stressed,
the level of the body’s stress hormone (cortisol) rises. This in turn causes
an increase in oil production, which can lead to oily skin, acne and other
related skin problems ... stress has a negative effect on the barrier
function of the skin, resulting in water loss that inhibits the skin’s
ability to repair itself after an injury"
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Psychological Stress May Mar Skin WebMD, 11/1/07
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How
Stress Harms the Heart - Time, 10/9/07
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Stress Contributes To Range Of Chronic Diseases, Review Shows - Science
Daily, 10/9/07
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High
Hostility Linked with Poor Ability to Cope With Stress, Low HDL Levels -
Medscape, 8/30/07 - "individuals who were very
hostile were more likely to perceive problems as stressful and to cope with
stress by using interpersonal hostility, self-blame, and social isolation;
they also tended to have lower levels of HDL"
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New Alzheimer's findings: High stress and genetic risk factor lead to
increased memory decline - Doctor's Guide, 8/27/07 -
"High stress levels may contribute to memory loss
among people at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease"
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Coping With Stress Helps Cholesterol - WebMD, 8/20/07 -
"People who coped well had higher levels of HDL than
people who didn't cope well ... The amount of stress you deal with isn't as
important, they also found, as how you deal with it. "Stress doesn't matter
nearly as much as how you cope with it,""
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Stress May Wreak Havoc on Your Mouth - WebMD, 8/13/07
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Job Stress Jacks Up Blood Pressure - WebMD, 4/10/07 -
"Their blood pressure was highest on
the job, when they had 5.9/3.0 mm Hg higher blood pressure than the nonstressed workers did. But the stressed-out workers also had higher blood
pressure while at home, including while they were sleeping"
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Stress May Help Cancer Cells Stay Alive - Doctor's Guide, 4/10/07 -
"the stress hormone epinephrine
causes changes in prostate and breast cancer cells that may make them
resistant to cell death"
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Reactions to Stress May Affect Brain Aging - Medscape, 8/14/06 -
"the adrenal stress hormone cortisol
appears to play an important role in mediating the effects of stress on the
brain ... Although acute stress seems to enhance immune function and improve
memory, chronic stress has the opposite effect and may even lead to
disorders that become more prevalent with aging, such as depression,
diabetes, and cognitive impairment"
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Chronic Stress May Make You Age Faster - WebMD, 8/11/06 -
"Chronic stress -- the type that drags
on, rather than being just a momentary crisis -- can affect hormone levels and
shift the body's delicate hormone balance ... In this way, there may be
synergistic effects of aging and chronic stress"
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Chronic Stress, Depression and Cortisol Levels Are Potential Risk Indicators
for Periodontal Disease - Doctor's Guide, 5/31/06 -
"being a caregiver to relatives with
dementia, hypercortisolemia (overproduction of cortisol) or stress were
associated with elevated plaque levels and increased gingival bleeding in a
study that examined adults aged 50 years and older"
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Stress at Work an Important Risk Factor for Development of Heart Disease and
Diabetes - Doctor's Guide, 1/20/06 -
"Researchers examined the
association between work stress and the metabolic syndrome ... men with
chronic work stress were nearly twice as likely to develop the syndrome than
those with no exposure to work stress"
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Sweet Snacks Could Be Best Medicine For Stress - Science Daily, 11/28/05
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Cut Stress, Help Your Cholesterol - WebMD, 11/22/05
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Drug Counters Mental Effect of Stress - WebMD, 11/16/05
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Women More Sensitive to Stress Than Men? - WebMD, 11/15/05
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Lost Extra Weight? Stress May Help Gain It Back - WebMD, 10/17/05
- Chronic Stress Makes Cells Age Faster - WebMD, 11/29/04 -
"In translating telomere length into years of aging, researchers determined the
cells from the highly stressed mothers had aged from nine to 17 additional years compared with the cells from the low-stress mothers"
- Stress Linked to Painful Menstrual Periods - WebMD, 11/17/04
- Commuting Stress Hurts Heart - WebMD, 9/21/04
- Levels Of Certain Hormones May Be Increased By Stress - Science Daily, 8/3/04
- Women Snack More After Stress - WebMD, 5/28/04
- Stress Disrupts Sleep in More Ways Than One - WebMD, 2/6/04
- In times like these, depressive disorders are a danger - USA Today, 10/6/03
- Stress Feeds the Need for Comfort Food - WebMD, 9/9/03
- Job Worries Up Women's Heart Attack Risk - WebMD, 9/4/03 -
"Many studies have pointed to high blood pressure, insomnia, anxiety, and
depression -- as well as increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol"
- Is all that stress killing you? - USAToday.com, 5/26/03
- Highly Educated Workers More Stressed - WebMD, 4/18/03
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New Stress-Buster Drugs Block Hormone Binding - Clinical Psychiatry News, 4/03 -
"A
new class of anxiety-relieving drugs—agents that interrupt core hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress signals—will emerge in the next 2-3 years ... In his HPA axis model of depression, the affected individual has a blunted ability to counterregulate in response to stress-induced
cortisol increases, and thus is unable to turn off the fight-or-flight HPA mechanism. The result is constant anxiety and overreaction to external stimuli, followed by a sense of learned helplessness and loss of motivation. Many symptoms of deeply entrenched depression—anxiety,
loss of appetite, reduced libido, elevated heart rate, hypertension, and dyslipidemia—point to HPA dysregulation ... People with melancholic depression do tend to produce abnormally high levels of CRH. These individuals also have elevated levels of cortisol" - See my
cortisol page for ways to reduce it.
- High stress before cancer diagnosis may raise risk - USA Today, 3/10/03
- Can Stress Affect Your Overall Health? - TheSanDiegoChannel.com, 2/20/03
- Chronic Stress And Metabolic Syndrome Linked - Doctor's Guide, 11/27/02 -
"While the 24-hour cortisol
metabolite and normetanephrine (three-methoxynorepinephrine) outputs were higher among cases than controls, HRV and total power were lower among cases" - Makes sense. Stress increases cortisol, cortisol causes high blood sugar. Also see my metabolic syndrome page. - Ben
- Too Much Stress Hinders Immune System - WebMD, 11/4/02
- Job Stress, Work Strain Double Risk of Death From Heart Disease - WebMD, 10/17/02
- Financial Stress of Job Loss Linked to Poor Health - WebMD, 10/8/02
- Exercise, Eating to Enhance Memory? - Dr. Weil, 9/26/02 -
"Dr. Khalsa
explains that in addition to age, chronic stress can harm the hippocampus via the release of high levels of the hormone cortisol from the adrenal gland"
- Stress Affects Men's Health More - WebMD, 9/25/02
- Taking Action Best for 9/11 Stress - WebMD, 9/10/02
- Putting the Reins on Stress - WebMD, 9/5/02
- Practical Stress Management Program Found To Improve Health Of People With Type 2 Diabetes - Doctor's Guide, 8/26/02
- Mental Stress, Physical Illness - WebMD, 8/12/02 -
"women who report high levels of mental stress are twice as likely to die from stroke or heart disease than those with low stress
levels. And stressed-out men may not fare much better" - This article doesn't get in to it but stress raises cortisol, which may be responsible for the damage.
- Putting the Reins on Stress - WebMD, 10/10/01
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