Physical activity (PA) and nutrition are the essential components of a healthy lifestyle, as
they can influence energy balance, promote functional ability of various systems and …

While it is well known from numerous epidemiologic investigations that social determinants
(socioeconomic, environmental, and psychosocial factors exposed to over the life-course) …

The relationship between emotional states and immune system activity is characterized by
bidirectional influences; however, limited information is available regarding the temporal …

Background Previous Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statements
(CPS) included topics such as behavior modification, motivational interviewing, and eating …

Natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic T (CD8+) cells are two of the most important types of
immune cells in our body, protecting it from deadly invaders. While the NK cell is part of the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on the intersection of socio-economic,
demographic, and environmental factors with public health, particularly in the context of …

Initiating from Hans Selye's conceptualization of stress physiology, to our present
understanding of allostatic load as the cumulative burden of chronic psychological stress …

The LawSTRESS project is a controlled prospective-longitudinal study on psychological,
endocrine, central nervous and genetic predictors of responses to long-lasting academic …

We previously demonstrated that neutral bicarbonate ionized water (NBIW) bathing
enhances blood flow by bicarbonate ions and described the underlying mechanism …

Recent efforts have been devoted to the link between responses to non-physical stressors
and immune states in animals, mostly using human and other vertebrate models. Despite …