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  Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating you. But it is often a negative force. If you experienced stress during a long period of time, it could become chronic —unless you take action. Stress is an automatic response designed by our ancestors to protect us from predators and other threats. Faced with danger, the body stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol flood our body. They elevate your heart rate, increase your blood pressure, boost your energy and prepare you to deal with the problem. These days you don't confront the danger of being eaten, but you still have multiple challenges every day. As a result, your body's natural alarm system may be stuck in the on position. And that can have serious consequences for your health. Even short-life, minus stress can have consequences. Major acute stress can have a bigger impact. Repeated acute stress can may also contribute to inflammation in the circulatory system, particularly in the coronary arteries. This is...

  Addiction is not having control over doing, taking or using something to the point it could be harmful to you. It's possible being addicted to anything: gambling, drugs, alcohol, smoking... And also: - Work. People who are obsessed with it, and being physically exhausted and the relationships are affected because of work. - Internet. People may spend hours and hours on the internet everyday. - Solvents. Volatile substance abuse is when you inhale such as glue, aerosols, petrol or lighter fuel. - Shopping. It becomes an addiction when you buy things you don't need or want just to achieve a buzz. There are lots of reasons why addictions start. Some substances like alcohol, nicotine or drug affect the way you feel, and create an urge to use the substances again. Gambling produces of feeling of mental "high" after a win and it's followed by a strong urge to recreate that feeling. Being addicted means that not having it causes withdrawal symptoms, or a "come dow...

  Stress is any demanded place on your brain or body. It can be triggered by any event or scenario that makes you feel frustrated or nervous. Anxiety is feeling fear, worry or unease. It can occur as a reaction to stress or without any obvious trigger. Anyway, both of them have the same symptoms : trouble sleeping, digestive issues, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, and irritability or anger. Most people feel stress or anxiety in their life at some point, and it doesn't have to be necessarily bad. After all, they can sometimes be a helpful motivator. But unmanaged stress and anxiety can start interfering with your daily life and affect your physical or mental health. Stress and anxiety can produce a range of physical and psychological symptoms . Stress can produce: dizzinnes, muscle tension, digestive issues, trouble sleep, irritability, headaches, increased sweating, feelings of overwhelm, restlessness, changes in appetite, increased heart rate. Anxiety can involve the ...

If you want to keep your brain engaged during the aging process, listening or playing music is a really good tool. Now we know that music helps to reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain. It also helps improving sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory. How do we listen to and play music? A stereo system puts out vibrations that travel through the air and somehow get inside the ear canal. They are transmitted by electric signal that travels through the auditory nerve to the brain stem, where it's reassembled in something we perceive as music. Music is structural, mathematical and architectural, based in a relationship between one note and the next one. Music's impact in memory Music can help retain essential information despite the memory loss. Music memory is stored in the hippocampus. This part of the brain is in the middle, so there are less chances to be impacted by age or diseases. Musical mnemonic device is a natural way to learn and recall information. As child...

  Eating disorders are illnesses related to behaviour with food. They are associated with distressing thoughts and emotions. Common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. This illness can affect the heart, digestive system, bones, teeth and mouth. Causes The exact causes are not known but they might be:     - Genetics. Some people may have gens that increase their risk of developing eating disorders.     - Biology. Biological factors may play a role in eating disorders. Anorexia Nervosa It's a condition where people avoid food, so there's a low weight for height and age. There are two subtypes: restricting typ e ( individuals lose weight primarily by dieting, fasting or excessively exercising) and purging type (individuals engage an  intermittent binge-eating or purging behaviours). Anorexia nervosa can be fatal, it has a high death rate. Bulimia It's a condition where people have recurrent episodes of eating unusu...