Lets talk about stress. Our bodies are a skin-covered petri dish. Your brain releases chemicals in your blood which is your cultured medium. When you’re in love, your brain will release chemicals like dopamine and growth hormone; these chemicals enhances vitality. When you’re scared, your brain releases stressful hormones which affects the immune system negatively. Some of these chemicals are:
- Cortisol,
- Norepinephrine, and
- Inflammatory cytokines.
They are released into the blood as well, which is our culture medium. Stress hormones lower the immune system. An example of this is when doctors uses stress hormone to therapeutically shut down the immune system before transplant. They give stress hormones so the body’s immune system will not reject the transplant. So if we are living in a stressful environment we are inhibiting our immune system everyday. We grow cancer cells every day a healthy immune system we’ll get rid of those cancer cells that will prevent the cancer cells from growing.
Stress Triggers
Some of the things that is stressful in our lives are
- Pressure,
- Urgency, and
- Fear
Believe it or not, caffeine raises our cortisol, a stress hormone.
Some of the other things that we can look at it comes to pressure and urgency like our emails, work, and lifestyle. This turns on our sympathetic nervous system, which increases our adrenaline. When our adrenaline increases it uses glucose not fat which creates inflammation, in return it creates a lot of disease in the body. When adrenaline cannot keep up, cortisol comes into play. This slows the metabolism down and our clothes get tighter, we start a diet so the body then thinks there is no food left in the world it will slow down even further.
Believe it or not, caffeine raises our cortisol, a stress hormone.
The immune system uses lots of energy when we are sick. We can’t get out of bed as an example. It depletes our energy. There is not enough energy left for growth and repair. Melatonin levels go down and we can’t sleep. Fear is the cause of today’s Health Care crisis stress is the health epidemic of the 21st Century world Health Organization. 90% of illness today is based on lifestyle and stress not genetics stress is fear. Fear is always about how we perceive how people are going to see us. If our thoughts can make us sick can our thoughts make us well. Taking care of our emotional component of health is more important than the diet.
How to Reduce Stress
Here’s something that can help reduce stress.
- Be aware of your breath
- Breathe diaphragmatically.
To begin you want to breathe in through your nose pause for a few seconds then slowly breathe out through your nose, slowing your breathing down. By doing this, your nervous system believes that you are safe. Become breath aware.
Some other things that will help with stress
- Yoga,
- Meditation, and
- Being grateful.
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