Tag Archives: stress
An unutterably ugly word: malignancy
In my last blog, My body, my battleground, I wrote about finding a lump in my breast, and having a biopsy. That was a month ago, though it seems more like an eon. Not quite a week afterwards, my doctor’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and blogging, Costa Rica, Health, Life
Tagged biopsy, Breast cancer, Caja, chemotherapy, CIMA hospital, emotions, Escazu, estrogen, immune system, lymph nodes, margins, meditation, mindfulness, national health care, Oncology, radiation, San Jose, San Jual de Dios, stress, Tamoxifen, Testerone
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Stress relief
Because I’m always interested learning about health, I watched a four-year-old National Geographic Special, Stress: Portrait of a Killer. The documentary touched on primate research being conducted by several scientists, but drew extensively on the work of a neuroendocrinologist and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life, Politics
Tagged aggression, alpha males, baboons, culture changes, immune systems, National Geographic, purges, Robert Sapolsky, stress, Stress: Portrait of a Killer
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