Lower temperatures and stressful holidays can present a host of challenges to your health. Try these simple tips to help ward-off winter blues.
- Dance away the blues
Short days and frigid temps turn you crabby. But a good workout (and that includes boogying to your favorite tunes) can hike feel-good endorphins. In fact, studies show that music activates parts of the brain linked to happiness.
- Phone a friend. Feeling that strong emotional bond may raise your levels of progesterone, a mood-boosting, stress-reducing hormone.
- Have sex. Estrogen and prostaglandins in semen may ease feelings of depression, a State University of New York study says.
- Cue a comedy. Just anticipating how much you’ll laugh while watching a funny movie is enough to boost endorphins.
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