Tag: adrenaline
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Doctors Explain What Swollen Hands Reveal About Your Health
Swollen hands occur when water and other bodily fluids accumulate in tissues and cause inflammation. Usually, hand swelling happens due to several factors, including injury, pregnancy, or certain diseases such as arthritis. Your hands can provide essential health indicators such as blood pressure and fluid balance. For instance, eating excess salt can cause hypertension, leading…
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Research Shows How Sweat Is Connected to Mental Stress
Sweat doesn’t just keep our bodies cool – it can also reveal underlying mental stress. Engineers have recently developed a device that can measure cortisol levels in human sweat. The wearable system can help doctors better diagnose and treat stress-related conditions like burnout and obesity. The groundbreaking research was published in the journal Communications Materials.…