Monday, August 27, 2007
Last year, I wrote about research finding links between stress and depression and increased rheumatoid arthritis disease activity. Now, new research presented this month at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association shows that chronic stress can exacerbate inflammation and increa...
We CAN NOT speak enough about the relationship between stress and chronic conditions such as Arthritis (all forms), diabetes, heart disease,hypertension,all auto immune disease etc.
I believe we have not spoken on the subject because of the inability to measure stress. However why not measure it in the same way we do pain?
Since there is a chemical response in the body that decreases the immune system and therefore making you susceptible to chronic disease, we would be remiss to not give it as much if not more attention that we give heart disease,cancer,diabetes etc.
Perhaps if we made stress out PRIMARY focus there would be a profound decrease in all those chronic disease.