Stress Relief
Stress triggers a particular biological response. When you perceive a threat or a challenge, chemicals and hormones surge throughout your body. Stress triggers your fight or flight response. Usually, after that response occurs, your body typically relaxes. But too much stress can have negative effects on your long term health. Find ways to avoid, reduce or manage stress to protect your health.
How Does Stress Affect Your Sleep Quality?
Let’s face it, life is stressful. Between work deadlines, family, overflowing schedules, and a busy social life, it’s easy to find yourself overwhelmed—and that can [...]
Podcast – Mastering Stress Management: Natural Solutions with Jim Lavalle
In this episode of the Intelligent Medicine podcast, Dr. Ronald Hoffman discusses stress and its various impacts on health with clinical pharmacist and nutritionist Jim [...]
Keep Calm with Ashwagandha
Feeling stressed? Even a bit overwhelmed by life? Consider ashwagandha. This herb has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for more than 3, 000 years - [...]
Rediscover Your Joy! 10 Ways to Support Your Mental Health
What do Simone Biles, Billie Eilish, and Ryan Reynolds have in common? They, along with a growing number of celebs, have gone public about their [...]
A Positive Mindset = Positive Health Benefits
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person? If you chose the latter, you may be in luck! Recent [...]
How Stress Affects Immunity and Your Health
We all have stress – whether work, home life, family or friends cause it, we all feel it at some point.