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Naturopathic medicine, a distinct profession of primary health care that utilises natural therapies including therapeutic lifestyle change, nutritional and herbal medicine, may be an effective way to relieve anxiety.
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Anxiety disorders affect up to one in four people over the course of their lifetime. To avoid the cost and side effects of conventional medication people are increasingly turning to herbal and nutritional medicines to calm their anxiety. But what actually works?
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Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world yet its effects on mood and anxiety are still unclear. Some people claim caffeine improves their mood while others find the opposite. Both are right.
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Eating well, regular exercise and stress reduction can treat depression a new study suggests, in fact within 3 months 73% of those with depression were no longer depressed.
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Anger has been linked to an increased risk of fatal heart disease, however research has been paradoxical. In some studies anger increased risk while in others it was protective. Theses difference may be due to differences in how anger is expressed, whether it is a constructive adaptation to a problem, or simply used to blame others.
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While many people feel they must maintain their stressful lives it is important to consider the long-term effects of chronic stress, one of the most important of which is arguably the gradual destruction of our brain. The wear and tear of chronic stress over time is known to insidiously destroy vital brain structures and impair our cognitive function (1). This brain melt down may eventually lead to the development of depression and dementia including Alzheimers disease later in life (2).
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