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Traditional risk factors load the gun, stress pulls the trigger « CBS Philly

Traditional risk factors load the gun, stress pulls the trigger « CBS Philly

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Psychology Offers AVariety Of Options Says Philadelphia Psychologist « CBS Philly. There is a strong mind-body connection in heart disease and other chronic illnesses. As I tell my patients, ‘When it comes to heart disease, traditional risk factors load the gun, stress pulls the trigger.’ Unless these psychosocial risk factors are addressed, cardiac patients in many...

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From The Brain To The Immune System, How Stress Pirates Your Whole Body

From The Brain To The Immune System, How Stress Pirates Your Whole Body

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Too much stress doesn’t just mess with your head. You’ve probably heard that some stress is good for you. Maybe it’s pressure from your dad, the college basketball star, to do well in this week’s big game. Or perhaps it’s the weight of an impending deadline nudging you to finish a big project. Stress can be a powerful tool, unavoidable and beneficial at times,...

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Heart Disease: Recover Faster tool box

Heart Disease: Recover Faster tool box

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Free Heart Community for folks with heart disease and their families  Join the Free Heart Community: https://heartcommunity.empoweredmind.com  Resources and tools to help folks with heart disease recover faster and stay out of the hospital longer. Also for friends and family members to prevent heart disease. Here you will find free audio, video, PDF guides,...

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Fascinating invention:  Heart on a Chip [VIDEO]

Fascinating invention: Heart on a Chip [VIDEO]

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Heart on a Chip to Replace Animals for Testing Cardiac Drugs  Cardiac drug testing is a challenging business, potential subjects often being weak and not subject to clinical trials. Now researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an organ-on-a-chip device that hosts live human cardiac cells. The beating heart cells can be used as a safe test bed for testing a variety...

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Study: Women having heart attacks are not getting treatment quickly enough

Study: Women having heart attacks are not getting treatment quickly enough

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In the United States, more than 15,000 women under the age of 55 die every year of heart disease, and researchers are trying to understand why they are not receiving life-saving treatment fast enough. In a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, researchers interviewed 30 women between the ages of 30-55 who had been hospitalized after a...

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Get rid of toxic thoughts – recover faster from a chronic illness

Get rid of toxic thoughts – recover faster from a chronic illness

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Toxic Thoughts “Every thought we think is creating our future. ”― Louise Hay Your brain and body are a sophisticated communications network. Your subconscious mind manages all of the ‘built-in’ processes that help your body function. This automatic communication happens without you having to think about it. In addition, our brains also process our...

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