By Cancer.net — 2021
When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”
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Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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Tai chi helps reduce stress and anxiety. And it also helps increase flexibility and balance.
After treatment ends, one of the most common concerns survivors have is that the cancer will come back. The fear of recurrence is very real and entirely normal. Although you cannot control whether the cancer returns, you can control how much the fear of recurrence affects your life.
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Plus expert tips on how to manage each of them.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.
Even though we know stress has serious health consequences and can impact our energy, focus, and work performance, many of us still struggle. Food and lifestyle habits can make a significant difference, though.
Practicing t’ai chi can improve our moods, as well as lessen the effects of depression and anxiety.
I began having anxiety attacks in high school. The scariest part was that I really didn’t know what they were at first. Because of my personality, which is more Type-A organized, it would have been easy to allow them to take over my life and become debilitating.
Neurological insights into how the brain processes stress, and how it can develop into depression, have led to new interventions.
In a 2017 pilot study out of UCLA, when adults who were addicted to cocaine or methamphetamines participated in an eight-week MBRP program that included some yoga practice, they experienced less substance use and showed improvements in the severity of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric...