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Top 7 Reasons We Feel Stressed Out
"I'm so stressed out." We've all said it, and felt the effects of living it. In our fast-paced, over-stimulated culture, we're constantly pushing our brains and bodies to the limit. Too little slee…
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6 Surprising Things That Affect Your Brain
Brain scientists in recent years have discovered a number of surprising ways that the brain influences our overall health, as well as how our behavior influences the health of our brain. A…
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6 Ways Fitness Makes You Successful
By Andrew Heffernan, Experience Life It’s 8:25 p.m. and you’re working late. Again. The boss has gone home, along with most of your coworkers. But not you: you’re still chained to your desk, and …
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9 Ways to Increase Fertility Naturally
By Kristin Ohlson, Experience Life You've been trying to start a family without success for the past year or more, you're not alone. As many as one in 10 Americans will experience infertility, ac…
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Obesity and Emotional Eating
When I was in college, I was struggling. I broke up with a boyfriend, was trying to find direction in life, my parents lived 6,000 miles away, and I gained 30 pounds in one month. What was happeni…
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8 Ways to Sustain Your Energy
From Experience Life The weight of daily responsibilities and the burdens of chronic stress have produced an epidemic of adrenal fatigue. Adrenal fatigue -- or non-Addison's hypoadrenia, as …
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Is Stress Hurting Your Heart? Quiz
Are you a victim of stress? We all go through life's ups and downs, day after day. Daily stress is normal, to a point. We may not even be conscious of the stress we are under—some people actually b…
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Another Good Reason to Relax
Stress can be a real killer. When we relax, we give our bodies a chance to heal and repair itself. But the tension, hectic pace, and emptiness of modern life serve to aggravate, if not downright cause…
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