How do your emotions affect your health and healing? Let’s talk about it. Before the germ theory, it was long believed that emotional or mental states affected physical states. With the invention of the microscope, doctors noticed that microbes caused some...
What are 8 ways to reduce your risk factors for heart disease without medication? Let’s talk about it. Heart disease is the leading cause of death around the world. In the United States, one person dies every 34 seconds from cardiovascular disease. Here are 8...
How do you reduce stress, anxiety and burnout? Here are three simple steps. Stress, anxiety, and burnout can affect anyone and have been particularly difficult during these pandemic years, especially for US healthcare workers, but for anybody who’s had to deal...
It’s not uncommon knowledge that stress can cause an emotional reaction. It doesn’t have to be a physical stressor like an injury or illness. It can be an emotional stressor, like a difficult relationship or work situation, the loss of a job or a loved one, or...
When you’re under any kind of stress, it can affect your hypothalamus. Your hypothalamus suffers when it’s an acute stressor, meaning something’s happening to you right now. Or it’s a long-term stressor or stress that’s ongoing. Two systems are...
Have you ever had a super stressful situation, like the loss of a job, a loved one, or a relationship, and a few months later your hair starts falling out due to the stress of it all? Stress can actually cause hair loss. But how does this happen? When...
We can all use a little help in reducing our stressors. While we cannot always change the circumstances in our lives right away, we can learn techniques to reduce stress. I found these exercises illustrated on Medscape — the only newsfeed I subscribe to – to...
The Hormone Queen®
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP Intuitive Integrative Medicine