In case you're not familiar with BOTT therapy, it's a brand new type of therapy that has been around for centuries, only under a much different name.
BOTT therapy stands for what I and millions of Americans lovingly refer to as: Biting Of The Tongue Therapy.
After living for the last 6 months with 2 very nice elderly people, I've had to employ this type of therapy repeatedly. Now admittedly, I've lost a lot of blood in the process, but it's a small price to pay for harmony in the household.
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Recently, researchers at Yale University, found that when people with a known history of irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmia's) were asked to remember an anger inducing experience, their hearts were more likely to develop a certain type of beat that could lead to sudden death. This is more research by a team led by Dr. Rachel Lampert, who have published on this subject in the past. The theory is that when people who are already at risk for a serious arrhythmia experience anger, the flood of stress hormones affects the way the heart beats and can lead to a very rapid heart rate and even death. It's known that it takes a while for those stress hormones to dissipate.
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