{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-30T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T04:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-04-04T23:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T04:46:05","slug":"in-the-news-the-science-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/in-the-news-the-science-of-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News:  The Science of STRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 28, 2008<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dermatologists report that stress can cause many skin-related problems.\u00c2\u00a0 These include hair falling out, acne break outs, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Once these stress effects manifest, their appearance can cause even more anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>How does stress affect the skin?\u00c2\u00a0 Dermatologists have found that, when you&#8217;re stressed out, your body releases a hormone called cortisol.\u00c2\u00a0 Increased cortisol levels, in turn, increases oil production, which can cause acne eruptions &#8230; even if you have never had acne before!<\/p>\n<p>What can you do to counter these effects?<\/p>\n<p>To counter these effects, it is important that you reduce the amount of stress in your life.\u00c2\u00a0 Some practical ways to do so include:<br \/>\n1)\u00c2\u00a0 Get a good night&#8217;s sleep;<br \/>\n2)\u00c2\u00a0 Pay attention to breathing deeply and slowly;<br \/>\n3)\u00c2\u00a0 Get regular exercise<br \/>\n4)\u00c2\u00a0 Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counselorsassociated.com\/hypnosisaudio_stress.htm\">http:\/\/www.counselorsassociated.com\/hypnosisaudio_stress.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermatologists report that stress can cause many skin-related problems.  These include hair falling out, acne breaking out, etc.  Once these stress effects manifest, their appearance can cause even more anxiety. How does stress affect the skin &#8230; and what can you do to prevent it?  Learn more at &#8220;In the News:  The Science of STRESS&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physical-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}