From the category archives:
Journal of the American Medical Association 2008;300(24):2859-2866. Short Sleep Duration and Incident Coronary Artery Calcification From the Abstract Context Coronary artery calcification is a subclinical predictor of coronary heart disease. Recent studies have found that sleep duration is correlated with established risk factors for calcification including glucose regulation, blood pressure, sex, age, education, and body [...]
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I had a heart attack in November in Fairbanks when the weather was -10 degrees F. I have always wondered if it was the cold that almost killed me. For several years, the onset of winter was anxiety provoking because of this apparent relationship…. I am not sure what one can do about this, other [...]
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Continuing on the theme that it is healthy for your heart to warm your hands… In an experiment, college students experiencing physical warmth perceived emotional warmth in strangers. Talk about getting in touch with your feelings. NPR Dan Charles October 23, 2008 If you’re going out on a date anytime soon, you may find this [...]
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Continuing the theme that part of the problem with the anxiety after a trauma or heart attack is that it happens below the level of conscious awareness, that it is an automatic reaction that one’s life is in danger. This article assumes a visual input; with problems such as arrhythmias, the threat is coming from [...]
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From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, anxiety is an adaptive mechanism. If you are a zebra at a watering hole and the grass moves, you had better run like hell. Ninety-nine times out of hundred it will just be the wind; the one time it is a lion and you don’t run you will have [...]
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Strong earthquake jolts Anchorage by Rachel D’Oro The Associated Press 9/20/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An earthquake jolted Anchorage on Monday and was felt well beyond Alaska’s largest city. The 4.9 magnitude quake struck at 1:24 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Anchorage, according to earthquake monitors. There were no reports of injury or damage, but [...]
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(Continuing on the theme that “The way out is through”, that depression after a heart attack is not something that can be easily denied or medicated away…) Dream of Ravens On the mythological level, nigredo signifies the difficulties man has to overcome on his journey through the underworld. Nigredo is sometimes called ‘blacker than the [...]
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