Tax season stress may be popular, but do taxes really cause stress? Numerous writings about tax season stress make it seem like quite a real condition. Rampant as symptoms of it may be however, taxes themselves really don’t cause stress, explaining why finding relief may be difficult. So, what DOES cause the stress and how do we alleviate it? Relaxation, not death and taxation… Problem solving is but one of many techniques to reducing stress but is by no means the only soluti

Calcium and Magnesium – Why Your Body Needs Both Calcium The human body needs a lot of calcium because it cannot manufacture any and it uses this mineral for structure and many health-related functions: Bone consists mainly of calcium. By weight, one-third of body protein consists of collagen. A jelly-like substance with vitamin C its most important ingredient, this jelly is dependent on sufficient calcium to set. Together these two ingredients are responsible for tissue firm

Stressed Nerves – Problem or Symptom? What is “stress” any way? Webster’s defines it as, “Force exerted upon a body… the intensity of such force… and mental or physical tension or strain.” The human body is not a static thing like a still-life painting. There are literally billions of activities going on inside of one at any given moment. Despite that, there are parts of a body that are relatively static, like bones, for instance. In the movie series The Karate Kid the main c

NERVOUS SYSTEMS! Understanding nervous systems can be a tough task: so much goes on with them! Still, the journey fascinates! Webster’s helps us by defining “nerve” (from Latin, nervus, meaning “string.”) as: “… a cord-like fiber or bundle of fibers connecting the body organs with the spinal cord and brain, parts of the nervous system with each other, and impulses to and from the brain and nerve centers.” If communication consists of at least an origination point and a receip

Withdrawal Is Painful Wanting to help someone and not knowing how to help them hurts, too. Knowledge about how to help someone through withdrawal can help you and the person going through a withdrawal. The afflicted’s biggest hurdle to overcome addiction, besides the decision to quit, is the physical body’s craving for another fix. Drugs first stimulate the nervous system and, over time, act to deaden the nerves. Lessened or no sensation is the result, except for what sensati

What Calcium Does The body needs a lot of calcium because: The bones consist mainly of calcium. One third of the body protein, by weight, consists of collagen (a jelly-like substance) that has vitamin C as its most important ingredient. This jelly is dependent on sufficient calcium to set. These two ingredients are mainly responsible for the firmness of tissue. Calcium is vital in any healing process. A shortage of calcium results in nervous tension and irritability, and Calc