Swedish massages have recently been proven to positively impact hormonal levels.

This weekend, I read a fascinating article in Wired magazine about stress and your health. (The article isn’t online yet, but the author of the article, Jonah Lehrer, has pieces of the article on his blog.) {UPDATE: the article is posted on the Wired website now.} Lehrer talked to primatologist Robert Sapolsky about stress in [...]

We all know people with reputations for thriving under pressure.  As the stakes rise, so does their performance.  Sports offer some of the most vivid examples of this tendency, with athletes like Kobe Bryant always seeming to make the big play and others…not. These stone-cold superstars are genetic anomalies.  While most of us mere mortals [...]

New research shows that people 50 and over are happier and less stressed than younger cohorts.