Stresses are an inevitable part of our life. It doesn’t matter if you come from city or country, if you’re rich or poor, if you’re a man or a woman. All the best we can do to solve this problem is to avoid as more stressful situations as it’s possible. Why should we do that and how stress does stress affect health?
Stress leads to the physical reaction caused by any physical or psychological discomfort. You can by chance become a witness of the accident in the street, be in the condition of bankruptcy, or have a serious disease. Negative stress can continue for a long time making us weak and psychologically exhausted day by day. That is to say, stress powers the mechanism of “struggle and escape”. It is a primitive reaction of organism that helped to survive our tribes. But stresses that happen today don’t come without a trace, affecting our health ruinously.
When our mechanism of “struggle and escape” begins to work a surplus number of hormone releases and satiates our blood with various chemical elements. Our blood pressure rises, proteins turn to sugar and we can even have a great fit of energy for some time.
If you are a lucky man and have few stressful situations you won’t be affected by stresses happening sometimes. As soon as the problem that causes stress is solved your organism establishes and everything finishes well. But stress is an everyday problem for modern people today. And that’s bad.
Numerous stresses can stimulate radicals producing (elements that damage health cells); they can weaken immune system, increase blood pressure, rise up cholesterol level in blood, strengthen anxiety feeling and worsen depression. So how does stress affect health? Here are the most widespread health problems caused by stress:
• headaches
• Problems with neck and back
• Heart diseases
• Skin problems such as hives, allergic reactions and rash
• Digestion problems
• Menstrual aches
• Insomnia
• Tiredness feeling
• Frequent colds and throat inflammations
• Mood swings
Stress can also possess smoking people to smoke more and it also does problems with food such as bulimia and anorexia.
Moreover clinical data assume that chronic stress deprives one’s organism of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. That’s why many doctors advice to take food additives that contain antioxidants, carotene and such vitamins as C and E to reduce the producing of free radicals, caused by stress and.
