LIVE WELL FOR LONGER

hile this time of year is ‘the season to be jolly’, many of us find the burgeoning strain of our to-do list, together with family tensions (not to mention our societal state of tension) creates a stress-overload that feels, frankly, overwhelming. While getting super-stressed is clearly bad for our immune system, sleep, mental health and more, we can find a crumb of comfort in the fact that smaller amounts of stress are actually good for us. Good stress is known as ‘eustress’ in the scientific community, coming from the Greek prefix , meaning ‘good’. This acknowledges a positive cognitive response to certain stress, which isn’t defined by what causes the stress – but rather