The most fundamental principle of a good mental outlook is having energy. Your brain runs on energy. Superior energy-producing nutrition is your ticket to a brighter outlook. It is a completely safe and natural way to help manage stress and keep your mood positive.*  When we design dietary supplement formulations, one of our key focal points is seeking...

Factors that drain your energy always take their toll on your adrenals and "test" your ability to keep up with the demands in your life. Invariably, your female system is affected when too much wear and tear crosses a line. Female Plus™ is the most basic nutrient to help, often backed up by pantethine. Extra protein (Daily Protein Plus™) can also help a...

While virtually any type of stress is potential wear and tear for bones. One form, too many toxins, can wreak havoc with bone strength and optimal bone health. For example, the cadmium in cigarettes is known to displace zinc within bone structure. This means that smoking is inherently weakening to your bone mass, not only because it reduces the flow of...

Substance P is a neuropeptide that is involved in the natural regulation of many aspects of your cardiovascular system. Under normal circumstances it helps control vascular relaxation and thus blood pressure by enhancing the formation of nitric oxide. It also promotes the normal movement of fluids out of blood vessels for a variety of reasons. The main...

Because your immune system needs optimal energy and a "resting tone" of fitness in order to be well prepared, factors that induce energy depletion and wear and tear, especially stress, are key factors to change so as to keep your immune system in a more optimal state of readiness.The best supplements to help energy production and stress management, while...

Stress implies that there is an increased need for energy. Leptin, which is overall in charge of your body's energy spending systems, also regulates your adrenal and nervous system response to stress. When leptin systems work efficiently you have a better ability to tolerate stress, do not feel wired up or exhausted from stress, and do not eat in response...

A new study of 800 nurses found that those who snacked had higher stress, more cognitive failures at work, and more injuries outside of work.

As stress piles up in young adults, sleep time decreases. The result is a nasty catch-22; a lack of sleep affects daytime mood, and a poor daytime mood affects the ability to sleep.

Research on female monkeys shows that those in a subservient role and under chronic stress ate significantly more food resulting in weight gain, compared to the female monkeys in the dominating role. New research on humans does show that women with poor stress management skills will keep eating after they are full simply to make negative emotional...

The greater the amount of stress the more likely a child is to be overweight. Managing stress and solving problems are key life skills at any age and it is never to young to learn. Children unable to manage stress well may “stress eat” and may not feel like exercising, factors that really work against healthy metabolism.

Changes in the sequence of genes take tens of thousands of years of adaptation. In theory this would mean that the stress felt by a mother during pregnancy would not be genetically passed on to the child. However, new science shows another mechanism for genetically passing along stress. And a second study indicates that one of the adverse health...

Children enduring high stress while being raised program inflammatory genes (NF-kappaB and IL-6) to be in a state of heightened anticipation. While this may be necessary to deal with the associated problems of such stress, a new study shows that it is a clear disadvantage by the time the person reaches their 50s and 60s, as they are at much greater risk...

Stress-induced neurogenic inflammation in murine skin skews dendritic cells towards maturation and migration: key role of ICAM1/LFA-1 interactions.

Quercetin Protects Against Acute Immobilization Stress-Induced Behaviors and Biochemical Alterations in Mice.

Curcumin reverses impaired hippocampal neurogenesis and increases serotonin receptor 1A mRNA and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in chronically stressed rats

Effects of L-theanine or caffeine intake on changes in blood pressure under physical and psychological stresses.

Role for hypocretin in mediating stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior.

The stress hormone corticosterone conditions AMPA receptor surface trafficking and synaptic potentiation.