Pandemic Survival Blog

  Stress is defined as your body's way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol , which rouse the body for "necessary" action. But is it really necessary? How necessary is most of our stress? Is it called for, or uncalled for? Does it solve problems better–the worry, the doubting, the sulking, the wallowing, the angst?   Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, often accompanied by feelings of dread over anticipated events, including the fear of imminent death. This can be in regards to a real threat, a perceived threat, or just the expectation of a future threat. Ultimately, anxiety is a FEELING of fear and uneasiness that can be very generalized and overreactive. Having panic attacks does not necessarily mean one has a disorder, though, as most

Genetics is the study of genes and genetic variation in living organisms. Every cell in the body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes that each contain the genes you inherit from your parents. From each and every pair, one chromosome is inherited from your mother and the other from your father. What you inherit is genetic, but not everything that has to do with your genetic makeup right now is a result of what you inherited, in other words, if you develop cancer because you eat processed sugar every day, you didn't inherit those mutated genes. Here's another example: If you ingest aluminum and lead daily, from tap water, and say, antacids, and you get Alzheimer's disease by age 60, you didn't inherit those "genes" either, though your MD may say you did, for reasons we go into later.     Genetics is the study of DNA and variation. It's an all encompassing term, whereas hereditary refers to only the PASSING of inherited TRAITS from parents to offsp