You make a weekend promise to yourself on Friday night that the coming weekend will solve all your issues. Your plan involves extended sleep, gym cancellation, comfort food delivery, and full recovery…
Tag: stress and digestion
Why Your Body Aches when you are under Stress: The Muscle Cortisol Connection
Have you ever observed that your shoulders become tight in front of a big deadline? Or that your lower back throbs after a heated argument? The stress aches-induced body pain which people…
Mental Overload Syndrome: When Your Brain Never Gets to Rest
The condition starts with a silent beginning. You can get up, sleep-deprived, despite having had a decent night sleep. Your phone rings before you leave your bed. Messages, reminders, headlines, and expectations…
Gut Motility and Stress Connection: Why You Experience Bloating With Minimal Food Intake
You start your day with a light feeling. Your food consumption remains extremely low. Your stomach develops tightness and swelling and discomfort by the afternoon. The experience of bloating makes people search…
The Cause of Tiredness Following Food Intake: The Interplay of Circulation, Digestion and Energy Levels in the Body
You start your lunchtime rest in a good mood but after one hour your eyelids get heavy, attention is not on you anymore, and your work output is decreased. This is not…
Low Stomach Acid: The Reason You Experience Slow Digestion When Eating Healthy
You maintain a healthy diet, have a clean eating process and do not consume junk food, yet you still feel bloated after eating. I have seen this same situation happen to multiple…
The Mind-Gut Connection: Where Anxiety Begins In Your Belly
Has your stomach ever gotten knotted with tension on a stressful day? Or felt the “butterflies” before you go and present or go on stage? This is not simply your mind, but…
How Stress Is Secretly Worsening Your Digestive Health
We’ve all been there rushing through lunch while checking emails, worrying about deadlines, and wondering why our guts seem to be protesting. Most people would not realize the extremely strong connection between…