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Apr 2023
27m 57s

Stress and Your Health

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Since the pandemic, most people are hypersensitive to any red flag from their body that might signal sickness, such as a sniffle or a cough. What they may be less aware of, are the stress signals leading up to sickness that are often dismissed as fallout from the daily grind. Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard talks with James LaValle, a clinical pharmacist, and author of a book called “Cracking the Metabolic Code.”


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