Stress is the archetypical mind-body disease. Your mind’s perceptions cause your body to malfunction. It’s well known that stress suppresses and weakens your immune system — your first line of defense against viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens. Your reaction to stress lowers your body’s white blood cell count which reduces your system’s ability to heal itself. Genetically, some individuals are born with disadvantaged metabolic function or have a tendency towards biochemical imbalances.
Although some do not believe in divorce, it has been shown that children who experience trauma and stress in the home have permanent changes to brain chemistry and brain structure for life. Biophysical stressors in the environment will accumulate and contribute to chemical imbalances. Many children living in a stressful environment will complain of stomach problems. This is partly because a large part of your immune system is in your stomach.
Without a doubt, the most widely researched effects of stress on the body deal with the heart. It has been widely publicized that more heart attacks occur at the beginning of the work week than any other day of the week. As an interesting side note, many of those occur in the parking lot of the person’s place of employment in the morning.
Other common biophysical stressors are poor diet and the stored stress-effect. If you are stressed and eating a poor diet, your body chemistry will become even more imbalanced and problems in function will be more apparent. The stored stress-effect throws off the endocrine system and causes gastrointestinal weakness. The brain, nervous system, and endocrine system are hit hardest by poor nutrition.
Did you know stress can make you fat? A chronic state of stress and anxiety results in higher than normal levels of cortisol in the bloodstream that can cause poor cognitive performance, poor thyroid function, hyperglycemia, excess abdominal fat, high blood pressure, and lowered immunity to name a few deficits.
Although cortisol is a hormone found naturally in the human body, our bodies manufacture more cortisol as part of the ‘fight or flight’ reaction to stress. Small increases of cortisol have some positive effects such as giving us a quick burst of energy and insensitivity to pain, however, it doesn’t outweigh the negative aspects.
Some of the lesser known physical symptoms of stress reveal themselves in some of the most unlikely places, like the ears, the lungs and even in the hair. Those racing hormones which give us the ability to react more quickly to our perceived danger also heighten our sense of hearing. While this may sound like a benefit, in reality, it can be a danger. Research conducted at Cornell University revealed that even a moderate amount of noise is capable of elevating stress hormones.
You shouldn’t be surprised that under conditions of continual stress you discover that your hair is dry and brittle. In fact, you may even discover that you’re losing some of your hair. It’s part of your body’s very real reaction to tension
Too much negative about stress. How can we not get alarmed by all this? Lets make life simpler. Lets make things for us get simpler. Stop worrying and your putting a stop to stress and all kinds of it in your life. So many researches have been conveyed to us that simple as anxiety could cause too much trouble in terms of our health. So lets do something about it. Lets be simple in many ways to defend ourselves from further destruction. Eat right. Feel right. Think right. And do what is right for your self to gain wellness and healthy living.
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One of the most popular physical manifestations of stress is unhealthy weight gain. In my experience, people should just be positive about life in order to get rid of stress
Stress is not good for you in any shape or form. Anything you can do to eliminate it, your body will thank you now and down the road.
To lead a life of simple living yet higher thinking could help an individual getting rid a great deal of stress.
We are living in a modern and hedonistic world and because of the rat race factor, it is hard for us not to be in stress. But we could begin change from introspection and from the thought that real change is from within. To have a real change, we must have a change of heart.
You could try meditation. There are kinds of meditation that we could do in breaks between work and at home.
Even our youth must become health conscious. In this age of bewilderment it is prudent to live a simple and happy life. Be healthy and be safe.
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People create a lot of their own stress by the way they choose to conduct their lives.
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It’s a proven fact that most stress is bad for you and eventually, can lead to cardio vascular disease among others. Hypertension and obesity are two very popular stress related problems. However, there is some level of stress that is required if you want to be competitive and achieve certain goals in life. I am an AAA personality and need a challenge daily for me to function properly or I become lethargic. I often find that a good massage goes a long way to relieve tension and other physical muscular problems, and when stressed too much, that is what I have, and it works great.
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The bad thing bout stress is it could be physical, emotional, spiritual and mental. Stress is a reaction to events and problems, and you can lock yourself in to one way of viewing your situation. Seek an outside perspective of the situation, compare it with yours. and perhaps lessen your reaction to these conditions.
Stress is a double edged sword.. we were made with a bit of stress in mind, the problem is when stress is constant and chronic. That’s when it really can have negative ongoing effects on your health.