Stress

Originally published: March 15, 2024
Updated occasionally

Stress reduction activities lead to disease reduction (42% reduction to doctor visits)

"For about three hours a week, participants focused on relaxation using techniques like meditation, yoga and stress reduction exercises. They also worked on building resiliency using social support, cognitive skills training and positive psychology. After the program, the participants' use of medical services dropped by 43% compared to their usage the previous year."

(see mercola drive other folder stress)

Stress can make you look older (up to 11 years (?), up to 30 years on a cellular level (?), when the stressor is removed you regress to a younger looking age again)

Repressed emotions may cause back pain (possible 40% reduction to musculoskeletal pain) (unvetted by me) (likely legitimate)

(see drive other folder mercola emotions and back pain)

Anxiety and depression articles have stress reducing suggestions

(From PTSD entry)

Systematic chronic inflammation leading cause of death and disability in the world? Largely related to your exposome (everything you've experienced from pre-natal to now) not genetics (in tests with twins). Living in non-traditional lifestyles has increased chronic inflammation (with current hunter gatherers having less inflammation) (stress can include: physical, chemical, emotional, spiritual)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0675-0

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25730322/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25011077/

(see drive main folder adverse emotional situations kissen1967)

(From depression entry)

David M. Kissen discovered that emotional trauma (unhappy home growing up, adult significant other problems (sometimes other interpersonal relationship problems (non-significant other)), adult work problems), and repressed emotions (2x lung cancer), are strongly associated with cancer and psychosomatic illnesses (psychosomatic illness is an physical illness that might be associated with or effected by or imagined by your mind space (I don't think depression is one, though likely depression leads to physical illness)) (large effect size: unhappy childhood 4x psychosomatic (5x lung cancer), marriage difficulties 2x psychosomatic (3x lung cancer), work upset 34.5% more psychosomatic (2.76x more lung cancer))

(see drive main folder adverse emotional situations kissen)