Stress: The Calming Power of NO

by on November 28, 2011

Persistent long term stress causes or complicates virtually every disease, from heartburn to heart attacks. “Ninety percent of all health problems are stress-related,” we were told by Kathleen HaU, PhD, director of the Stress Institute in Atlanta and author of A Life in Balance.

In an animal study, Indian scientists stressed laboratory animals . by immobilizing them for six hours, Managing a group of those animals with antidepressants considerably solved immobilized stress-induced behaviors-and dealing with the animals with those antidepressants and a NO~boosting compound calmed the stress-induced behaviors a lot more.

The research highlights the participation of NO mechanism in the protective effect against stress, determined the scientists in the journal Neuroscience Letters.

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