Worrying Yourself To Death
September 5, 2010 | 
Author It’s true. Worry can . . . and will . . . kill you.
The human body is marvellous. Fifty million tiny cells all wrapped up into one human being. And each of those cells has a “mind” of its own. At least that’s the opinion of one biologist who claims to have seen a single cell move away from something bad for it, and toward something that was good for it.
So much for genetics.
But we humans can do something that even the animals do not appear to do. We worry. And with worry, comes a change in our body. Consider this description by Dr. Sapolsky:
“You sit in your chair not moving a muscle, and simply think a thought, a thought having to do with feeling angry or sad or euphoric or lustful, and suddenly your pancreas secretes some hormone. Your pancreas? How did you manage to do that with your pancreas? You don’t even know where your pancreas is. Your liver is making an enzyme that wasn’t there before, your spleen is text-messaging something to your thymus gland, blood-flow in little capillaries in your ankles has just changed. All from thinking a thought.” (1994: 20)
With stress comes this kind of activity in your body. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Never Suffer a Cold Again
Cold season in the northern hemisphere, while Australians, New Zealanders and others south of the equator get a hot Christmas.
It amazes me how often people run to the doctor when they get a cold bug of some kind. It amazes me because there is an alternative that works wonders. But there’s a “secret” to its success.
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You Get It From Your Parents
. . . or others who were surrounding you when you were young. Even from birth, those around you set the framework for your responses and your attitudes.
Recently on TV there was a program called “Sex Rehab” dealing with addictions. Everyone who had come in for treatment had issues at a young age, separating parents, or something else that drove their addictions.
Perhaps it was something like this:
” You should have cleaned your room better than that.”
Why Stress About Stress?
Not All Stress Is Good for You
An Austro-Hungarian medical practitioner by the name of Hans Selye uncovered a pattern of stress in the human body. He was not the first to discover stress. That privilege belongs to Walter Cannon. But Selye worked out that stress has three stages: alarm, resistance, then exhaustion. He gave these stages a descriptive name: general adaption syndrome (G.A.S.). But the problem did not end there. Read the rest of this entry »
Stress and the 911 Call
Your body is a highly regulated “machine.” It is balanced like a well-tuned engine so that all the components work together in a remarkable system of operation. But if any one of those functions gets out of alignment, it can cause problems somewhere.
When the body is functioning as it should, this state is called homeostasis. This is the well-balanced machine. Enter stress. . . .
Kangaroos Don’t Get Diabetes
I apologize for the reference to kangaroos. I’m an Australian, so I could not ignore the idea. But I did want to give you a little more information on diabetes, so I hope the headline got your attention.
Now I use that heading for a very good reason. Domestic pets such as dogs and cats are now getting diabetes. The causes are debated. But it would be a fascinating study to put the pets and their owners in the same room and see if there are some similarities.
More on that later. But consider this concerning diabetes in humans.
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