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How do you evaluate stress management techniques when it’s always been difficult to measure stress relief? Until now, the only way to evaluate stress has been by means of personal surveys of what people are feeling. But this is highly subjective. Something that is highly stressful for one person may be a walk in the park for another.

But now it will probably become possible to accurately measure stress and therefore the effectiveness of stress reduction. It can be done by measuring the hormones that are released when a person is under stress. One of these hormones is cortisol and it can be easily tested for.

There are many other stress hormones and these will also be useful for evaluating the severity and nature of stress. It will soon be as easy to measure stress as it is to read blood pressure.