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ArticleAre you in the stress danger zone?

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ArticleAre you in the stress danger zone?

ArticlePer­sist­ent metal­lic taste in mouth

ArticleExhaus­tion that doesn’t lift

A knock-on effect of severe stress can be a feel­ing of per­sist­ent low energy. Not only are your muscles and brain on con­tinual red alert, the immune sys­tem is stim­u­lated and so can soon become depleted. Another side effect is poor sleep, which...

ArticleSud­den adult acne

When we are under pro­longed stress, the brain and adrenal glands release chem­ical sig­nals, includ­ing cortisol and the cor­ti­co­tropin-releas­ing hor­mone, which can influ­ence the con­di­tion of the skin. “The oil glands in the skin have...

ArticleUnex­plained fre­quent need to pee

For many of us, when we’re feel­ing nervous or stressed, we feel the urge to urin­ate more, and it can be one of the earli­est signs of chronic stress. Dur­ing high stress your nervous sys­tem moves into a ramped-up alert set­ting, and so internal...

ArticleTem­por­ary memory lapses

Dur­ing high stress, the hip­po­cam­pus (the part of the brain that cre­ates and retrieves memory) and the pre-frontal cor­tex (decision-mak­ing, atten­tion) are com­prom­ised by high levels of cortisol. And when chronic stress sets in, the brain can...