The question how does stress affect health would be better asked as, what does stress NOT affect? As a matter of fact, the American Occupational Safety And Health Administration has declared stress a hazard of the workplace for everyone.
Our bodies are swimming in an ocean of biological threats. Inside, they are a fine-tuned orchestra of chemicals, hormones and electrical impulses. We house a magical bonanza of every kind of process you can imagine.
Name it, our bodies can work around it, or, they used to be able to.
For example, when we get an invasion of cold virus, our systems fight back with a variety of weapons, one of which is fever. Fever intensifies the actions of our immune systems. Often, these chemical signals cause our blood vessels to become leaky.
Mother nature is very clever. She uses the leaky capillaries in our nose to pass along the dead viruses and debris from our blood into our nasal chambers. There, itchiness and inflammation cause the sneezing and coughing which finishes the job of getting rid of this junk.
This is just one of thousands of beautifully choreographed chemical and biological systems that we don't have to even bother with. They always run on full automatic. They even have a built in "forgiveness" factor that works around things in our lives like maybe smoking or too much weight.
How does stress affect health? It is like a spoke in the wheels of your bicycle or driving your car with not enough air in the tires. Another good analogy is how the best generals in history won their most spectacular victories.
General Douglas MacArthur used the same principle against General Rummel in Africa in World War II. He felt out weak spots in the enemy and attacked there.
This is how stress causes all the problems it does.
Our systems get weaker and weaker. The ocean of infectants out there is always looking for a weak spot like the Frenchman's army. When they find one, they attack there.
Where we could of easily fought off an infection when relaxed and rested, we fall hard to many invaders when we are exhausted and stressed.
Our bodies are wonders of co-operation and healing. How does stress affect health? It's like having metal bars being held together by string where once they had been welded together.
A stressed body is not only more susceptible to biologics. It also self destructs through constipation, can't sleep/ can't wake up, heart issues, and many more modern day diseases.
Stress can cause you to suffer from neck and/or back pain. Women who are stressed frequently have problems getting pregnant when they want to.
Cardio vascular problems that would be survivable in low stress people kill high strung people. Stomach cramping, weight gain or loss, these can all be caused or aggravated by being stressed.
New things are surfacing all the time.
The skin is a wonder of ingenuity and is very susceptible to changes in its chemistry. As our largest organ it takes heck from stress and about 14% of us develop hives from it.
Clinical depression frequently results from prolonged stress. Signs of clinical depression range all the way from depressed mood most of the day, most days to feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt. One way or another, we beat ourselves to death with stress.
Physical symptoms of anxiety attacks can be frequently mistaken for stress. They can run all the way from a minor fear of something to intense dread of everything. A pounding heart is sometimes a sign as are tremors and nervous jerks.
How does stress affect health and what can be done? You now know a few of the things stress does. The best remedy is to get professional help and slowly learn to relax, change your style of living and believe that nothing is worth all the misery and pain you are causing yourself. - 14915
Our bodies are swimming in an ocean of biological threats. Inside, they are a fine-tuned orchestra of chemicals, hormones and electrical impulses. We house a magical bonanza of every kind of process you can imagine.
Name it, our bodies can work around it, or, they used to be able to.
For example, when we get an invasion of cold virus, our systems fight back with a variety of weapons, one of which is fever. Fever intensifies the actions of our immune systems. Often, these chemical signals cause our blood vessels to become leaky.
Mother nature is very clever. She uses the leaky capillaries in our nose to pass along the dead viruses and debris from our blood into our nasal chambers. There, itchiness and inflammation cause the sneezing and coughing which finishes the job of getting rid of this junk.
This is just one of thousands of beautifully choreographed chemical and biological systems that we don't have to even bother with. They always run on full automatic. They even have a built in "forgiveness" factor that works around things in our lives like maybe smoking or too much weight.
How does stress affect health? It is like a spoke in the wheels of your bicycle or driving your car with not enough air in the tires. Another good analogy is how the best generals in history won their most spectacular victories.
General Douglas MacArthur used the same principle against General Rummel in Africa in World War II. He felt out weak spots in the enemy and attacked there.
This is how stress causes all the problems it does.
Our systems get weaker and weaker. The ocean of infectants out there is always looking for a weak spot like the Frenchman's army. When they find one, they attack there.
Where we could of easily fought off an infection when relaxed and rested, we fall hard to many invaders when we are exhausted and stressed.
Our bodies are wonders of co-operation and healing. How does stress affect health? It's like having metal bars being held together by string where once they had been welded together.
A stressed body is not only more susceptible to biologics. It also self destructs through constipation, can't sleep/ can't wake up, heart issues, and many more modern day diseases.
Stress can cause you to suffer from neck and/or back pain. Women who are stressed frequently have problems getting pregnant when they want to.
Cardio vascular problems that would be survivable in low stress people kill high strung people. Stomach cramping, weight gain or loss, these can all be caused or aggravated by being stressed.
New things are surfacing all the time.
The skin is a wonder of ingenuity and is very susceptible to changes in its chemistry. As our largest organ it takes heck from stress and about 14% of us develop hives from it.
Clinical depression frequently results from prolonged stress. Signs of clinical depression range all the way from depressed mood most of the day, most days to feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt. One way or another, we beat ourselves to death with stress.
Physical symptoms of anxiety attacks can be frequently mistaken for stress. They can run all the way from a minor fear of something to intense dread of everything. A pounding heart is sometimes a sign as are tremors and nervous jerks.
How does stress affect health and what can be done? You now know a few of the things stress does. The best remedy is to get professional help and slowly learn to relax, change your style of living and believe that nothing is worth all the misery and pain you are causing yourself. - 14915
About the Author:
Dr. T. Johnson raised himself from grinding poverty to adventurous world traveler overcoming many health problems along the way. He shares what he's learned in his latest book: The Monster Book of Self Improvement. Free samples of this incredible book of total well-being can be accessed at self-improvement
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