Stress is not good for your sex life. But before you think it’s all about stress ruining the mood, researchers are saying that it’s more about the way your body handles stress, this according to the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Not surprisingly, cortisol levels play a role.
In a recent study, a sample of women were divided into two groups — a high-stress and average-stress — then measured their levels of arousal while they watched an erotic video.
The women in the high-stress group showed lower levels of genital arousal, higher levels of distraction, and higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which researchers hypothesize contributed to decreased physical arousal.
In other words, when your brain is preoccupied with stressful thoughts your below-the-belt area isn't primed to operate at peak performance.
Again, too much cortisol, not enough sexual arousal. Ironically, the best way to improve sexual arousal is to get some action. According to experts, having an orgasm is a great way to relieve stress.
Again, I think we all knew that.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Children of Poverty – Cortisol/Stress Affects Cognitive Development
As reported in The Washington Post, "Chronic stress from growing up poor appears to have a direct impact on the brain, leaving children with impairment in at least one key area – working memory."
A study of 195 children (ages 9, 13 and 17) from households living above and below the poverty line took a look at stress levels by measuring the stress hormones cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine with blood pressure and body-mass index data.
The unfortunate results?
"The longer they lived in poverty, the higher the allostatic load (wear and tear on the body) and the lower the working memory score," the study found.
New questions are arising based on this research. What about stress caused by factors other than poverty? What about adult brains and an increased allostatic load?
The Post asks: “What is the effect of the allostatic load in women from the chronic dangers and stresses of being treated as second-class citizens all their lives? What does the allostatic load do to the working memory of males who are shorter and more slenderly built than the bullies at school? And what does it do to members of any devalued racial or ethnic group in society?”
Seems that continues stress in all shapes and forms has severely negative effects on cognition and overall brain performance.
Now it’s clear to see why controlling excess cortisol via products like Sanyx (http://www.MySanyx.com) -- and measuring the results using biometric devices -- are so important to overall health and well being. It’s no exaggeration that cortisol agonists can be among the most important supplements we can take… given the laundry list of harmful effects excess stress and cortisol can encourage.
A study of 195 children (ages 9, 13 and 17) from households living above and below the poverty line took a look at stress levels by measuring the stress hormones cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine with blood pressure and body-mass index data.
The unfortunate results?
"The longer they lived in poverty, the higher the allostatic load (wear and tear on the body) and the lower the working memory score," the study found.
New questions are arising based on this research. What about stress caused by factors other than poverty? What about adult brains and an increased allostatic load?
The Post asks: “What is the effect of the allostatic load in women from the chronic dangers and stresses of being treated as second-class citizens all their lives? What does the allostatic load do to the working memory of males who are shorter and more slenderly built than the bullies at school? And what does it do to members of any devalued racial or ethnic group in society?”
Seems that continues stress in all shapes and forms has severely negative effects on cognition and overall brain performance.
Now it’s clear to see why controlling excess cortisol via products like Sanyx (http://www.MySanyx.com) -- and measuring the results using biometric devices -- are so important to overall health and well being. It’s no exaggeration that cortisol agonists can be among the most important supplements we can take… given the laundry list of harmful effects excess stress and cortisol can encourage.
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