FitBuff Morning Mix: Pain-Free Stress, Hiding Steroids, MRSA Breakthrough

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• The Process Of Pain Alleviation By Stress Who needs Vicodin or aspirin when you can relieve pain by encountering a Great White or a charging elephant? When you are severely stressed, your body releases a hormone that blocks pain processes in your body.
• Study: Steroids found in supplements Maybe Barry Bonds has been telling the truth all along after all: A new study found that a significant number of OTC supplements contain trace amounts of steroids, meaning you could be on the 'roids and not even know it.
• Scientists Strike Blow In Superbugs Struggle MRSA and other viruses are dangerous because they can morph and mutate, and it's hard for antibiotics to keep up. Now, scientists have developed a technique that allows them to change one small part of an antibiotic's chemical makeup to produce a large number of variants.
• FitBuff FlashBack What is MRSA? Symptoms and Prevention Still, why rely on the above developments when you can avoid the deadly "superbug" in the first place? Check out this article for how to stay one step ahead.

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