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Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. If you get enough back aches, someone will eventually tell you that’s where your body stores stress. If ...

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In a 2022 survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, more than one-third of respondents reported that on most days, they feel “completely overwhelmed” by stress. At the same time, a growing body of research is ...

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