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Anxiety and psoriasis. Is there a connection?

Anxiety and psoriasis. Is there a connection?

Although psoriasis is considered an immune system disorder, there are a variety of triggers that can cause it to appear. Certain medications, cold weather, an injury to the skin, or even a strep infection may cause psoriasis to appear for the first time or exacerbate existing psoriasis. Additionally, emotional triggers, such as family problems or financial worries, can also be stressful and affect your psoriasis.

Physical and psychological stress can stimulate the release of chemical messengers called neuropeptides, which can cause pain, itching, and inflammation. Based on these observations, stress appears to be one of many psoriasis triggers.

The good news is that there are a variety of methods available that may help you deal with your stress. Share with your dermatologist the relaxation techniques you are considering.

psoriasis and anxiety

Oh darn this photos looks sooooooooo painful. It must itch horribly. Well if you have psoriasis like this and it was not brought on by anxiety and stress, it will certainly cause you anxiety and stress…….. In hot weather you would want to hide it. You would not want to go swimming in public. And on and on……….. It would come to rule your life and cause you to shut down and kind of hide out.

Since psoriasis is worsened by stress, any stress in your life will make it flair up even more…………. argh.

Developing a basic good set of relaxation skills will help reduce your overall stress. As you calm down and relax, you will find that your skin condition will gradually get better and better. And spikes in the pressure in your life will not cause a major flair up.\

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Can you eat only ‘real food’ for a month?

(CNN) — The task set by a food blogger seemed deceptively simple: Eat real food for a month.

More than 900 people signed up for the challenge, and some were confident that it would not be difficult to avoid processed foods for 28 days.

But in the age of potato powders, cheese in a squirt can and microwaveable meals, eating only “real food” turned out to be much more difficult.

On Day One of the challenge, blogger Jennifer McGruther gave this instruction: Purge your pantry of processed foods.

This meant everything with refined oils, white flour, sugar, low- and skimmed-milk products, margarine, processed cheeses, refined salt and dried pastas had to go.

Can you eat only real food for a month?

At first I thought this was a joke. This is how I eat. It takes time but l have organized my life to eat live foods that I grow or buy and prepare. You can try to boost your body on a diet of lousy corporate truck food but………… there are so many risks. [see the movie Food, Inc.]

The absolute best is food you grow. We only get to enjoy that 5 months out of the year. We store lots of food for later enjoyment. I find fresh, live foods give me such a great burst of energy to say nothing of the wonderful flavor and smells in your home.

Take this challenge. Pump up your Health!

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Healthy Heart

28 Days, 28 Ways to Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease

Celebrate American Heart Month by using this calendar of tips to lower your risk for heart disease. Each year, more than 870,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease—it’s the leading cause of death among women and men. The good news is that the vast majority of heart disease cases can be prevented with a healthy diet and lifestyle. Each day we’ll reveal a new way you can stay heart healthy—this month and every month. Click on today’s date below, and check back often for updates.

28 days to healthy heart

This is a great idea. Take a month to work on things to improve the health of your heart. It is the motor driving your body. Let’s get that pump in tip top condition so that you can be healthy and live as long as possible.

Being alive but unhealthy is no fun. You want the energy and stamina to live a strong life, a happy life.

Be sure to include a good daily dose of relaxation. Visit one of our websites for tools to help you remain calm and relaxed.

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Stress and Self Sabotage:Are You Creating Additional Mental Stress For Yourself?

Though virtually everyone experiences stress, sometimes the way we react to stress amounts to self sabotage! We’ve all found ourselves being impatient with people or taking out frustrations on innocent bystanders, or causing unnecessary conflicts and mental stress because stress is clouding our judgment. And while some people find themselves creating this type of drama in their lives occasionally, others make this self sabotage a way of life, continually creating additional mental and emotional stress for themselves without being aware of their own role in this! The following are some of the most common ways that people create mental and emotional stress in their own lives. Carefully think about whether any of these self sabotage techniques apply to you, so you can make simple changes to reduce significant mental and emotional stress from your life.

There are so many ways to defeat ourselves without any help from anyone else.

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Chile quake moves city more than 10 feet

(CNN) — The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.

The quake also shifted other parts of South America, as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.

The results were reached via global positioning satellite measurements taken before and after the February 27 quake by teams from The Ohio State University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Memphis and the California Institute of Technology, as well as agencies across South America.

NASA scientists have also credited the quake with shifting the Earth’s axis enough to create shorter days. The change is negligible, but still worth noting: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

Chile quake moves city more than 10 feet

Wow that is amazing. It makes rational sense with colliding plates and the history of the earth but to think of a whole huge city moving 10 feet is ….. amazing.

It would be helpful to have similar measurements to register the shock that life events have in our own life.

Loss of a loved one.

Serious Illness.

Loss of a job.

Infidelity.

There is a ranking that you can give to major life events to guage how they impact your life.

Take a free Life Stress Test

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6 ways mushrooms can save the world: Paul Stamets on TED.com

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Cleaning polluted soil, creating new insecticides, treating smallpox and maybe even the flu … in 18 minutes, he doesn’t get all the way through his list, but he has plenty of time to blow your mind. An audience favorite at TED2008

The focus of Stamets’ research is the Northwest’s native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.

There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.
“Once you’ve heard ‘renaissance mycologist’ Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you’ll never look at the world — not to mention your backyard — in the same way again.”
Linda Baker, Salon.com

6 ways mushrooms can save the world: Paul Stamets on TED.com

This is a superb lecture. He talks a bit too fast so you really have to focus. He is really on to something. His demonstrated use of mushroom and fungus has major implications for healthier ways to live – natural pesticide that is not toxic, cheap form of fuel, ways to purify contaminated soil, and more.

What is probably the largest living organism on earth has been discovered in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say it is all one organism.

Man I hope his work is thriving. I love it because it is Restorative, it is not high tech [which often means using deadly metals and solvents] and it projects a hopeful future where we as humans could bond and enhance the natural world around us.

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Rare Buddhist flower found under nun’s washing machine

A rarely seen Buddhist flower, which blossoms every 3,000 years, has been discovered under a nun’s washing machine

The Udumbara flower was found in the home of a Chinese nun in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi province, China. The rare Youtan Poluo or Udumbara flower, which, according to Buddhist legend, only blooms every 3,000 years, measures just 1mm in diametre. Miao Wei, 50, was cleaning when she discovered the cluster of white flowers under the washing machine. At first she thought the barely-there stems were worm eggs, however, the next day she discovered that the stems had grown 18 white tiny flowers on top and smelled “fragrant”. Local temples believe the mini blooms are specimens of the miraculous Youtan Poluo flower – called “Udumbara” or “Udambara” in Sanskrit, meaning “an auspicious flower from heaven.”

Rare Buddhist flower found

How fun and magical. I have never heard of this flower. And wow, every 3,000 years???  That is quit the timer.

Searching the web, I see there are a number of photos of flowers found around the planet. Some speculate that is might be an insects eggs.

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Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth

SPACE.com Space.com Staff

space.com – Tue Mar 2, 10:00 am ET

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth

And here you were worrying about paying taxes, your dead end job, the neighbor’s barking dog last night, you crazy government or whatever happened to your favorite singer…………. Talk about beyond our control. Wowwwwwwwwwwww

These are events and changes are wayyyyyyyyy beyond our control.

What I recommend is focusing on what you can control in your life and what is around you. You can control your reaction. You can control your muscle tension, your breathing, etc. Calm yourself and focus on simple everyday tasks. Worry and concern over these Huge Events……. if you are not living in Chile, may or may not affect you.

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Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-pop culture

Popping a couple of pain pills helped Laurie J. Besden study night after night. They helped her pass the Pennsylvania bar exam. They helped her get more done in a day than many of her colleagues. Then they helped her land in jail.

Besden doesn’t seem like any drug addict you’d picture. She’s smart, motivated — and an overachiever. But she’s one of an alarming number of women who have turned to prescription pills to get ahead — or even just to keep up.

Almost 6 percent of American women, that’s 7.5 million adult women, report using prescription medicines for a boost of energy, a dose of calm or other non-medical reasons, according to the latest numbers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-pop culture

There is a tremendous pressure to keep up with this fast past technological culture. We are forced to constantly learn and compete and produce. This  competition is even harder on women and minorities who also face bias and bigotry. “Mother’s Little Helpers” is what they used to be called – speed or diet pills were all the rage in the 60’s and 70’s. I remember women would talk so fast that they hardly breathed when pumped up on those pills.

Sadly, there is a price to pay. Now the pills are much stronger and the price is even higher on the pocketbook, the body and the mind.

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Hospital infections killed 48,000, report shows

WASHINGTON – Pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in U.S. hospitals killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a report released on Monday. The study is one of the first to put a price tag on the widespread problem, which is worsening and which some experts say is adding to the growing cost of healthcare in the United States. “In many cases, these conditions could have been avoided with better infection control in hospitals,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan of Resources for the Future, a think tank that sponsored the study.

Your Hospital Stay May Kill You

Wow…………. in one year. That is more than the H1N1 or swine flu. And yet there is no publicity about this. That rivals the number of deaths from smoking. Plus the hospital bill will drain whatever money you leave behind. Insult on Death.

Wow………… why is nothing being done to address this terrible situation?

Wow……….a few years back traced the main spreader of disease in the hospital to doctors. They see patient after patient and do not wash their hands in between. Seems weird with all the high tech equipment and hi-powered drugs that the doctor still spreads disease the old fashion way – by touching.

Wow……….

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