The Chronic Illness-Depression Connection
All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl...but it also renders her susceptible to dysfunction in her hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-thyroid-gonadal axis, dysregulations in digestion and immunostasis, and vulnerability to infections—which was the case with me recently. A confluence of factors, including sleep disruption, escalating stress, and a higher intake of refined sugar intersected to compromise my immune status and I recently came down with a recalcitrant upper respi