Doctors who study pain have hypothesized that there is a link between stress and chronic pain. Recurring pain can cause a sustained stress response, which in turn contributes to the pain, which in turn creates more stress, and so on. A new study has found “that basal levels of cortisol (i.e. stress hormone in humans) […]
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I recently read an article in the New York Times by William J. Broad called How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. Contentious? Probably more than a little. Upsetting to those who practice? Absolutely. Being a dabbler in yoga myself I had to say my hackles went up at this one. Still, the article made some […]
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