Tuesday 24 July 2012

Massage the Antidote to Stress -Therapy Business Hints and tips for your Massage Career

Massage the Antidote to Stress

Therapy Business Hints and tips for your Massage Career

Yale University researchers have found that chronic stress plays havoc on the brain by blocking out an important gene that protects the brain from depression.

Neuritin — “an activity-dependent gene that regulates neuronal plasticity” that is important for normal brain function, not just protection against depression — is decreased by chronic stress,Ronald Duman, a neurobiologist at Yale University and his team report in the study. “Neuritin produces antidepressant actions and blocks the neuronal and behavioural deficits caused by chronic stress,” they say in the June edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Depression affects roughly 121 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Massage could help people with depression by relieving their stress levels and reversing the negative effects of stress. Could be

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