Tag Archives: Cardiovascular disease

How Chronic Stress Creates Hormonal Havoc

by Mark Hyman, MD “If you really knew what was happening to you when you are stressed, you would freak out. It’s not pretty,” I said during the 2013 Third Metric women’s conference. I wasn’t kidding. I could write several books about stress’s massive, chronic havoc on your body. If you want to avoid stress, you’ve […]

depression as a risk factor of heart disease?

Darrel Regier, M.D., former APA director of research, discusses APA’s involvement with the AHA’s recommendation to consider depression as a major risk factor for heart disease. Sylvia Johnson Despite publication of numerous studies and meta-analyses showing a link between depression and cardiovascular disease, the American Heart Association (AHA) has yet to formally recognize depression as […]