At the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington, D.C., researchers reported a connection linking psychological trauma to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in adults. The study had 2623 participants, and found that participants with more psychological traumas – “such as the death of a loved one, divorce, natural disaster, house fire [...]
Research being presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Cancer Research has demonstrated a clear link between stress and increased aggressiveness of breast cancer. More research needs to be done to determine if the diagnosis of a more aggressive cancer is making these women more stressed or if stress caused them to [...]
In another random parallel – or maybe not so random – Western biomedical researchers are looking at over-thinking, ruminating, obsessive thoughts, call it what you will, and how these thought processes are represented in people with depression. In Chinese medicine, we see over-thinking or ruminating on an idea as a disharmony in the Spleen, the [...]
