How does mood affect our health?
Some studies have shown that living alone for a long time changes brain connections, leading to greater cognitive decline and a faster deterioration of overall health.
Of course, the discomfort caused by loneliness also depends on the starting level of solitude (how used a person was to being alone before).
Isolation, constant worries about one's own health and that of loved ones, can in any case become, for any of us, sources of chronic stress in this period.
So, how can we push back against all this?
- Stay in touch with the people you care about: it has been shown that just hearing the voice of a loved one releases oxytocin (the anti-stress hormone that boosts mood and helps fight insomnia).
- Physical exercise: essential for proper brain function and for protecting it from decline, especially in this time when ordinary physical activity goes down.
- Proper diet: there is nothing more wrong than fighting negative emotions with binges. This behavior may make us feel better in the short term but it will only increase our stress and our craving for high-calorie foods.
Feeling good is your choice, and with our program it is possible.
