Tag: stress
Low-carb diet and chronic (even mild) stress sufficient to cause heart disease (CVD) and depression
I first tried low-carbing, circa 2008, and quickly realized just how detrimental it is to health, especially…
Children inherit (bad) memories from their parents
Studies like this are an anathema to genetics, because they show a clear and meaningful connection between…
Intermittent fasting causes hair loss by increasing lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation
Despite being all the rage these days on social media, intermittent fasting (IF) has now started to…
Almost half of the global population has some form of neurological disease
Only posting this as a good indicator of the steadily deteriorating environmental conditions we are all facing….
Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”
Actual title of the article, quoting the main author of the Nature op-ed. There has been a…
High cortisol, cortisol/DHEA, cortisol/testosterone ratios may drive schizophrenia
The connection between chronic stress and schizophrenia is well-established but medicine continues to vehemently deny that stress…
Brain energy production determines our psychosocial experience; stress damages it
Well, it does not get any clearer than the findings of the study below. Namely, the old…
Anti-anxiety drugs, high cortisol reduce empathy
This is a study that has a lot of relevance for virtually every person living in a…
Salt restriction promotes stress by elevating cortisol
Yet another “controversial” topic is getting some attention. After medicine reluctantly accepted the existence of the “Obesity…
Higher testosterone (T) levels protect against diabetes in males
Another study that contradicts the pervasive dogma that higher T levels are a nightmare for aging males,…