The vagus nerve helps your body recover from stress and return to balance. Learn how this nerve regulates fight-or-flight responses and what you can do to support it.

Gratitude's effect on the brain not only puts us in a healthier and happier state through the chemical release of a hormone called dopamine, it keeps the gray matter of your brain functioning and can change the molecular structure of your brain.

The pathway to counteract stress uses cortisol. Secretion of cortisol from the adrenal cortex promotes the creation of glucose, suppression