Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
(Editor’s note: During this football bowl season we figured why not go wide and go deep. So Embria Health Science’s Dr. Stuart Reeves has thrown a long ball: an great overview of a meta-analysis of how stress can impact immune health. As you’ll read, there are so many long-term implications for physical health when psychological [...]
Wanna experience one of the most beneficial half hours of your life? Listen to Embria Health Science’s Stuart Reeves as he is interviewed about immune balance on a Latrobe, PA radio station. Stuart hits the big points on immune health and quality of life, from colds and flu to stress and travel to extreme exercise [...]
I was a sitting with a couple friends at a college football game last weekend. One had a teenage daughter who recently had back surgery and required 6 days to recover at University of Iowa Hospitals. ”Guess how much her hospital bill was” my friend said (and this was not including the bill for the actual surgery). Our other [...]
What is the top cause sick-day absences from the work place? According to a survey highlighted in today’s WSJ Health Blog, it’s heart disease, followed by diabetes-related conditions, then stress. Stress is expected to increase as a cause of sick days as the tanking economy continues.
What do you think? I think the stress part of [...]
My wife just got back from a meeting at her company’s headquarters. She works for a major financial services company (thankfully one that is financially sound and not wallowing in the credit crisis…at least not yet). The home office staff presented some summary results from a health and benefits survey distributed to the company’s 23,000 [...]
