by Andrea Southern | Oct 17, 2016 | All Health, Nutritional Health
On average a human can survive 3 weeks without food but only 3 days without water, although circumstance obviously plays a big part in how long we can survive. The average human adult’s body is made up of around 60% water and an infant around 75%. Your brain is made...
by Andrea Southern | Aug 29, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health, Thyroid Health
In this final part to the series on stress and its impact on your body, I will be looking at the impact of stress on your adrenal glands and hormones. Adrenal health: The adrenal glands are 2 small glands located on the top of your kidneys. They are made up of 2 parts...
by Andrea Southern | Aug 9, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health, Weight issues
The first 3 parts of this series on stress covered the impact on the digestive and immune system, skin conditions, migraines, headaches, insomnia and cardiovascular health. It should now be obvious just how far reaching stress is with regards to negative impacts on...
by Andrea Southern | Jun 7, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health
In Part 1 and 2 of this series on the impact of stress on your body, I looked at the impact of stress – both high levels and chronic low levels – on the Digestive and Immune systems, on skin conditions, headaches and migraines. Part 3 of this series will...
by Andrea Southern | Apr 21, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health
In Part 1 of “Stress and its impact on your body”, I discussed the impact of stress on the digestive and immune systems. The impact of stress plays a role in many health conditions, and affects virtually every bodily system, mainly through the release of cortisol and...
by Andrea Southern | Mar 7, 2016 | All Health, Digestive Health, Mental Health
In this 5 part series, I will be investigating the impact of stress on various body systems. This first part will look at the impact stress has on the digestive system and the immune system. Stress is something that we all encounter on a daily basis. Our bodies are...
