Its perfectly legal, made by your own body, and makes you feel overwhelmingly connected and loving toward others. It is oxytocin, just one of the five feel-good, do-good Healing Hormones. Discover all five and learn how to boost them naturally! Worried about the nexus between stress and disease? Your know you'vegot to relax - but how? Stopping at the gym for an hour workout after work is not realistic. Prescription drugs and risk getting 'hooked'? Youshould mediation - buthow when you can't calm down! Authors Mark Estren, a Pulitzer-winning journalist who writes about medical and health, and self-help author, Docpotter show how emotional self-talk - like 'shoulding' - sets off the 'stress response' and how chronic stress can harm your health. More importantly, Estren and Potter offer a fresh, fun-filled approach to toning down stress, while having more fun.*Healing Hormones explains how to turn on natural chemicals - such as by dancing, running, snuggling, laughing, eating chocolate - to reduce stress and improve quality of your life. Anxious about a coming encounter? Snuggle your dog, while focusing on the 'experience,' right before meeting tells your brain to produce oxytocin, which soothes anxiety and facilitates socializing. No pet to snuggle? Watch a funny movie instead. Make sure to laugh hard to stimulates your body to produce natural morphine-like calming chemicals, called endorphins, and you may 'ace' the encounter!*Anticipating laughing and fun stimulates endorphin production! Go ahead: Laugh! Worried about the nexus between stress and disease? Your know you'vegot to relax - but how? Stopping at the gym for an hour workout after work is not realistic. Prescription drugs and risk getting 'hooked'? Youshould mediation - buthow when you can't calm down! Authors Mark Estren, a Pulitzer-winning journalist who writes about medical and health, and self-help author, Docpotter show how emotional self-talk - like 'shoulding' - sets off the 'stress response' and how chronic stress can harm your health. More importantly, Estren and Potter offer a fresh, fun-filled approach to toning down stress, while having more fun.*Healing Hormones explains how to turn on natural chemicals - such as by dancing, running, snuggling, laughing, eating chocolate - to reduce stress and improve quality of your life. Anxious about a coming encounter? Snuggle your dog, while focusing on the 'experience,' right before meeting tells your brain to produce oxytocin, which soothes anxiety and facilitates socializing. No pet to snuggle? Watch a funny movie instead. Make sure to laugh hard to stimulates your body to produce natural morphine-like calming chemicals, called endorphins, and you may 'ace' the encounter!*Anticipating laughing and fun stimulates endorphin production! Go ahead: Laugh! | Healing Hormones by Mark James Estren, Paperback | Indigo Chapters