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Are You Stressed?

Acute stress is a very helpful primitive function within our bodies, however chronic stress can cause problems to our gene expression also known as our phenotype or RNA.

Your Healthy Body will let you know. We have a stress hormone called cortisol which elevates our heart rate, reduces or at times increases appetite, makes us feel the “flight or fight urge” with an all around increase in our adrenalin. Acute stress is a very helpful primitive function within our bodies, however chronic stress can cause problems to our gene expression also known as our phenotype or RNA.