What if managing your stress was as simple as snapping a photo? For decades, cortisol—the body’s stress hormone—has been recognized as a central player in human health. It regulates blood pressure, metabolism, immune response, and even sleep cycles. When cortisol is out of balance, the ripple effects touch everything from heart disease to depression. Yet measuring it has always been a cumbersome process, trapped in the world of labs and clinical visits. Now, thanks to a breakthrough in protein design and smartphone integration, that barrier is about to fall.
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Health overwhelmed financial problems in terms of causes of stress.
We are all stressed. Work can get some people down, and of course money is something we all worry about. But Americans with health issues are more likely to experience a great deal of stress than anyone else, according to a recent poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NPR.
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Should your life be automated so you can work harder?
Would you delegate all of your decisions to someone else?
Would you pay someone in the Philippines to answer your email for you — even your personal messages? Or hire strangers on the internet to plan your spouse’s big birthday party? Or throw meat, vegetables, and butter into a blender and call it dinner?
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Higher status means you will live longer
Nobel Prize winners live longer than those who don’t win.
On average, Nobel Prize winners live 1.6 years longer than nominees who aren’t selected. This finding is consistent with a causal link between status and longer lifespan, say Matthew D. Rablen and Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in the UK.
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Drone pilots get stress disorders as much as pilots of manned aircraft do
Drone pilots
Researchers with the Defense Department have found in a first of its kind study that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Top 10 most stressful jobs of 2013
73% of workers are stressed out at work.
“I am soooo stressed out right now!” When is the last time you heard someone say that? Probably just three minutes ago, right?
According to a recent work-stress survey by Harris Interactive for Everest College, nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of workers are stressed out by at least one thing at work.
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E-mail vacations can reduce stress at work: Study
E-mail causes stress at work.
Your email could be killing you!
The University of California, Irvine and United States Army researchers released a new study on Thursday which found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.
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Kids age faster when exposed to violence
The study is the first to show accelerated biological aging in childhood as a result of stress.
Children age faster on a cellular level when exposed to multiple instances of violence than children without violent experiences, a new study has found.
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Dogs could lower stress at work and improve morale
Researchers studied 75 people at a manufacturing company where each day for a week 20 to 30 people were allowed to bring their dogs to work.
Bringing a dog to work could come with practical difficulties, but a trial at an American company suggested it improved people’s job satisfaction.
Banking may be dangerous to your health
Investment banking may be bad for your health.
On the list of things that could be dangerous to your health: add investment banking.
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Managers who exercise more less abusive to employees: study
Managers who fail to exercise ‘more abusive to employees’.
A new study has found stressed supervisors struggled to cope with time pressures and vented their frustrations at subordinates without regular physical activity.
6 secondhand health hazards that may surprise you
One-quarter of people who share a bed with a snorer lose 49 minutes of sleep per night.
Unhealthy behaviors can spread. And by now you know to avoid a roommate who smokes, lest her carcinogenic cloud take you down. But did you know you should avoid shacking up with a snorer. Recent research shows that a slew of health problems and their side effects can be transferred from one person to another, according to the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity–meaning that friends’ or relatives’ medical issues, or their disregard for their own well-being, can rub off on you!
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