Techniques to Cope With Stress and RA

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Effects Of Stress In The Body

Stress is the body’s warning system that it can’t cope. Much like a 486x running today’s computer applications … the body just can’t deal with the stress.

Stress and the mind.

A hard day at work, your kids getting in trouble at school, or just a bad encounter at a restaurant can cause stress. When the threats --- real or perceived --- overcomes a person, stress becomes harmful to the body. Stress starts in the mind --- when the mind thinks that there is a threat nearby, it starts firing signals down to the adrenal glands to produce adrenalin and cortisol.

Down to the body.

The rapid surge of adrenalin increases the heart rate, blood pressure and energy. The cortisols, at the same time, increases blood glucose levels. To further complicate the situation, the muscles and the liver releases glucose from the muscles and the liver. Meanwhile, the pancreas releases insulin and glycogen to regulate glucose.

In the long run.

All of the energy required to release the hormones and glucose (and both regulate them) are taken from the body’s main activity processes --- the ones used to maintain and regulate balance in digestion, for example. Imagine that everytime a person undergoes a stress episode, the body releasing hormones THAT WEREN’T NECESSARY in the first place.

A continued lifestyle of constantly stressing over nothing will take its toll on the body. The muscles will become tired and the organs will wear out eventually. Life won’t be the same --- the worn-out organs will make way for serious diseases in the long run.

During your 40s, a continued lifestyle of stress will have the most impact, since this is the time when you want to be in tip-top shape. Stress is something to avoid if you want a healthy heart lifestyle. Imagine what the heart undergoes from constantly trying to keep up with perceived stress, or over things that don’t require to stress over for. It may even lead up to heart diseases, real, not perceived.

Combine that with a family history of disease, lack of exercise, a pending mid-life crisis and several bad habits you might’ve picked up along the way --- and it might just go off in one of the worst ways possible. Certifiably unhealthy.

This might be, or any other instances before it, the best time to give stress a more in-depth looking into --- its lethal.

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