ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - How stressed out are you over Tuesday night's possible presidential election outcome?
KMOX Health Editor Fred Bodimer got some tips on how to handle all that anxiety.
SLU Care general internist Dr. Fred Buckhold at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital says consider doing three things -- beginning with exercising more to relieve that stress.
"When you are under duress, putting your body under some degree of stress where you are moving, your heart rate goes up, breathing a little faster, it just releases a number of components," said Buckhold on Total Information A.M. "It's probably not medically accurate, but it kinds of flushes the system out, it puts a lot of things in your body and kinds of eliminate some of the negative things."
Buckhold also recommending to cut back on your news and social media intake, and try to control your environment.
"So if I think if you think about who you are around and who are people that are actively talking politics or people that trigger you, maybe it's time to think about whether or not you want to be in an environment with them," said Buckhold. "Because they're just leading you to a environment that makes you stress."