Re: An explanation for hormesis? -Reply

["JOHN JACOBUS" <JENDAY1@email.msn.com>]

Tom Hazlett wrote:

The mind is pretty powerful.  How often have you heard of otherwise health
people who feared retirement, dying shortly after retirement,  or a spouse
dying within a short period of the demise of thier loved one with no other
apparent reason.  "he/she worried himself/herself  sick!" is an old saying
perhaps with a basis in truth.

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Actually, it is common for one elderly spouse to die after the mate dies.
First of all, they are both elderly . . . unless the couple are Anna Nicole
Smith and her 90-year-old billionaire husband J Howard Marshall III. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS, CHP
Medical Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
jenday1@email.msn.com (H)


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