In a hectic world today, with unrelenting work and responsibilities stacking up, stress can often get to the best of us. But how detrimental is it for you really? The question now, can stress actually kill you?
From a natural viewpoint, stress makes a whole sense. If you’re about to get eaten by a predator, your stress hormones better kick your butt into caution to protect yourself. But somehow it also turns out that your debt, unemployment, and approaching assessment all stimulate the same stress reaction in your body. Not like most animals, which experience a major decline in these hormones, us humans can’t seem to find the off button.
Despite the fact it’s not life and death, our psychological shocks consistently engross our bodies in these hormones, making our heart beat faster, muscles unease, and stomach upset.
In Japan, they have the expression Karoshi, which plainly translates to “overwork death”. What is now considered an overworking epidemic, these people who are apparently healthy and in their prime, suddenly pass away. After being publicly known and documented in Japan, these unexpected heart attacks and strokes were quickly associated to stress.
Then again, how does stress cause this?
One of the main stress hormones known as cortisol helps divert energy to where you need it and away from non-essentials functions of the body. But then again with chronic stress exposure, complications arise. The immune system shuts down, white blood cells are reduced, inflammation is subdued, and proneness to diseases increases. Several evidences also suggest that prolong stress may be involved in the development of malignant cells.
In a study, while observing at the arteries of macaque monkeys, those under major stress have more obstructed arteries. This prevents blood from passing to the heart quickly during stress and can eventually lead to heart attacks.
The brain also gets affected, when observing at mice exposed to stress; we see dramatically smaller brain cells with less branch extensions than normal mice. This is predominantly widespread in the areas associated with memory and learning. The acute stress and sleep deprivation can make it more and more challenging to remember the stuffs we want to.
Perchance the most influential story is in our gene. Our DNAs contain something called telomeres at the end of our chromosomes, which shrink in size with our age. In time, the telomeres run out, at which point the cell stops reproducing and dies. So, telomeres are directly related to aging and length of life.
But then again, stress may actually accelerate the shortening of these telomeres. But not all hope is vanished for the perpetually stressed.
This hormone called oxytocin has been shown to reduce this stress response. It helps our blood vessels relax and even rejuvenates the heart from stress related injury. Hence, how do we get more oxytocin? It’s occasionally labelled the cuddle hormone, for the reason that it’s released during positive social connections and while caring for other individuals.
Those who devote more time with others, create a shield or resilience to stress. So when circumstances gets the best of you, always remember, you don’t have to be on your own. Spend a while with those you love, it may well just save your life.
Despite the fact it’s not life and death, our psychological shocks consistently engross our bodies in these hormones, making our heart beat faster, muscles unease, and stomach upset.
In Japan, they have the expression Karoshi, which plainly translates to “overwork death”. What is now considered an overworking epidemic, these people who are apparently healthy and in their prime, suddenly pass away. After being publicly known and documented in Japan, these unexpected heart attacks and strokes were quickly associated to stress.
Then again, how does stress cause this?
One of the main stress hormones known as cortisol helps divert energy to where you need it and away from non-essentials functions of the body. But then again with chronic stress exposure, complications arise. The immune system shuts down, white blood cells are reduced, inflammation is subdued, and proneness to diseases increases. Several evidences also suggest that prolong stress may be involved in the development of malignant cells.
In a study, while observing at the arteries of macaque monkeys, those under major stress have more obstructed arteries. This prevents blood from passing to the heart quickly during stress and can eventually lead to heart attacks.
The brain also gets affected, when observing at mice exposed to stress; we see dramatically smaller brain cells with less branch extensions than normal mice. This is predominantly widespread in the areas associated with memory and learning. The acute stress and sleep deprivation can make it more and more challenging to remember the stuffs we want to.
Perchance the most influential story is in our gene. Our DNAs contain something called telomeres at the end of our chromosomes, which shrink in size with our age. In time, the telomeres run out, at which point the cell stops reproducing and dies. So, telomeres are directly related to aging and length of life.
But then again, stress may actually accelerate the shortening of these telomeres. But not all hope is vanished for the perpetually stressed.
This hormone called oxytocin has been shown to reduce this stress response. It helps our blood vessels relax and even rejuvenates the heart from stress related injury. Hence, how do we get more oxytocin? It’s occasionally labelled the cuddle hormone, for the reason that it’s released during positive social connections and while caring for other individuals.
Those who devote more time with others, create a shield or resilience to stress. So when circumstances gets the best of you, always remember, you don’t have to be on your own. Spend a while with those you love, it may well just save your life.
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