How the Body Reacts to Stress?

KOMPAS.com - The experts now consider stress as important health problems faced by modern man. Various studies show that stress can affect the efficacy of the immune system. Therefore, the stress associated with various diseases suspected, such as heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, to impotence.

Actually, how the body reacts to stress? According to Dr Tan Yen Shot, in his book, I Choose Healthy and Heal, will spark the release of stress hormones and chemicals that formed the body that increases mental awareness, increased heart rate to increase blood flow to vital body organs, as anticipated needs more energy high.

The hormone is released when we stress is epinephrine and norepinephrine, known as fight or flight hormones (fight or flee). When prolonged stress, the hormone cortisol released. Hormin itself had many undesirable side effects in the long term, including insulin resistance and bone loss.

Stress is not necessarily derived from the emotional things that are not fun and want to avoid. Stress can also come from the things that made themselves unwitting (and even was considered a pleasure), as is the habit of playing video games and exciting.

The nerves will receive the same impulses as well as mental condition was "stuck". Mental and emotional tension and the need to take action quickly dissipates epinephrine and norepinephrine with the same effects such as chronic stress and prolonged.