The selection of research papers and empirical studies below indicate a direct link between emotions, stress, stressful life events, traumas, beliefs, socioeconomic parameters and illness and show the power of lifestyle medicine and comprehensive lifestyle and habit improvements.

Our mission is to motivate and educate doctors and health professionals in traditional and complementary health care to be trained accordingly and be able to integrated the newest research in psycho-social root-causes analysis & self-healing protocols in a practical way into their practices.

• Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Specialists and Faculty Members are working on demonstrating and verifying that specific stressors & emotions are affect specific organ tissue symptoms based on the Art and Science of Self-Healing, the Organ-Mind-Brain Connection and the Major Points and Phases of Self-Healing
  • John Rhodes, Lifestyle Prescriptions® Asthma Specialist
    In a small research study John could show the following results using Lifestyle Prescriptions® Root-Cause Analysis & Self-Healing Protocols:
     40% of participants were able to stop using asthma medication altogether (collaborated by their GP).
     80% of participants had Final Peak Flow measurements corroborating their breathing improvement.

• Dr. Dean Ornish, considered the grandfather of Lifestyle Medicine, and his Preventive Medicine Research Institute could demonstrate in double-blind studies the direct relationship between lifestyle modifications (nutrition, stress management, fitness, social support) and diseases and our body’s ability to stop and reverse up to 80% of chronic health issues. Here are some of their findings:
  • Telomerase
  • Telomeres
  • Weight Loss
  • Gene Expression
  • Cholesterol
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Blood Pressure
  • Heart Disease
  • Depression
  • Diabetes & Pre-Diabetes
  • Outcomes & Cost-Savings

• Emotions and Health
  • List of research projects related to emotions and their affect on our body 
  • Energy Psychology Research
  • Human Emotions on the Onset of Cardiovascular and Small Vessel Related Diseases.   
  • Differences in anxiety among patients with early- versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Brain activity linking negative emotions to a lower immune response against disease (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1534743100).
  • Depressed elderly people have fewer lymphocytes and T-cells – white blood cells crucial for fighting disease. Published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (vol 72, p 253)
• Other Stress-Social-Health related Research Studies
  • Life Event, Stress and Illness
  • Pain and Emotions: A Psychosocial Review of Current Research
  • 75 to 90 percent of visits to primary care doctors may be related to stress, only 3 percent receive stress management
  • Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.
  • Stress and the Individual Mechanisms Leading to Disease
  • Stressful life events: Their nature and effects
  • Prospective Study on Occupational Stress and Risk of Stroke
  • Life events, stress, and illness
  • Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status
  • Comparison of two modes of stress measurement: Daily hassles and uplifts versus major life events
  • Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene
  • The Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS-8) A Brief Measure of Somatic Symptom Burden
  • Improving Physicians’ Interviewing Skills and Reducing Patients’ Emotional Distress
  • Dr. Hamer research into the connection between traumatic events and cancer (brain relay, embryology and the natural laws of health)

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