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Stress is a normal psycho-physiological response to a perceived threat. This is commonly known as the bodies “fight-or-flight” response or stress response.
The stress response is the body’s natural way of protecting you. The stress response can save your life. This is a good thing, what happens is when we start feeling stress about non-life threatening situations. So we can differentiate between “good” stress and “bad” stress. A certain level of stress keeps us going, that is EU stress, without which we might just never get off the couch.
How Does Stress Affect Your Health?
Did you know that many people feel some level of stress, and they do not believe it affects their body negatively? This is interesting because studies have shown that two-thirds of all visits to the family doctor are due to stress-related symptoms.
That’s not all; recent evidence also shows that stress could be a large contributor to leading causes of death, heart disease and cancer.
Chronic Effects of Stress:
It can cause headaches, back pain, chronic fatigue and digestive problems.
It can affect your immune system, making it harder to fight off infection.
It can increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
It triggers addictive behavior contributing to death and disability, such as smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, overeating.
It can leave you vulnerable to Anxiety and Depression.
It can cause infertility and also speed up the aging process.
Obesity, Auto immune Diseases, Skin Conditions and Sleep problems.
You can check the Google polls for most searched keywords; they are Stress and Depression. My website gets more hits for Stress, Depression, Anger and Anxiety than any other keyword. If you feel stressed or anxious, it is possibly affecting your mental and physical health.
The more stressed we get, the shallower, faster and tighter our breathing becomes, causing more stress and dis-ease in the mind and body. Being able to consciously control the breath can help reduce stress and its effects on the body. This will keep you healthier both mentally and physically.