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Nothing affects your health and weight loss like low thyroid function. It drastically limits your energy and ages you well beyond your years. It can mean you are operating at 50 per cent of normal power – mentally and physically. It makes weight loss almost impossible because you burn 400 or 500 calories less than normal per day. It can limit or stop your weight loss no matter how much dieting or exercise you do.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Two bio-energy therapists, with more than 20 years’ experience, are holding two clinics, in Ballina Community Centre and the Welcome Inn Hotel, Castlebar, on Monday (March 3).

Is stress making you put on weight? Do you think your hormones are out of kilter? Do you feel you need to get a grip on your life? Help and advice is coming to Galway.

Nothing affects your health and weight loss like low thyroid function. It drastically limits your energy and ages you well beyond your years. It can mean you are operating at 50 per cent of normal power – mentally and physically.

The diabetes team in Galway University Hospitals together with Diabetes Care West charity and Croí are hosting a free information evening and workshop in the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre, Galway, on Thursday February 13 for people with type 1 diabetes.

Nothing can affect your energy, health, and weight loss like low thyroid function. It can mean you are operating at 66 or 50 per cent of your normal power - mentally and physically!

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger, it turbocharges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system. Chronic stress is caused by constant emotional pressure. It produces hormones that weaken the immune system and damage bones. The stress response begins in the brain, when a threat is detected a number of structures including the hypothalamus, amygdala, and pituitary gland go on alert, they exchange information with each other and then send signalling hormones and nerve impulses to the rest of the body, to prepare for the flight. The body then unleashes a flood of hormones. It is essential that stress related symptoms are confronted in the proper manner to avoid disease setting in.