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Strategies for Stress Management

hile people deal with stressors in different ways, our bodies all react quite similarly. Your adrenals, which are glands located above each kidney, control specific hormone production. One of these hormones is called “cortisol” and is released as your body responds to a stressful environment. When we worry, that cortisol level rises. And

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