
My heart is giving me hints that my stress is too high.
I used to be an athlete, but this is long time ago, as a child. But since then, I’ve always kept up physical exercise or movement of some kind, and I’ve always had a regular slow heart rhythm, and always passed the EEC test prescribed for participating even to a normal gym with full flags, showing an athlete-type of heart with good recovery after physical stress (you know, the steps!). However, recently my heart started playing funny, fluttering, losing its normal regular rhy

Brain health: stress anxiety depression dementia. What causes them?
I’ve just come back from a two-day conference on Brain health where I learned a lot about biochemistry of the brain, the work of hormones and neurotransmitters on the body, the link of depression to stress in life and the central role of gut bacteria in our mental health. This is very concisely what I can share with you: - Mental health is a worldwide spread case. 35% of patients in general practice suffer from mental health issues like anxiety, depression or substance abuse.