How Stress Impacts Your Vital Organs


By Peggy Everson

Stress affects just about everyone's daily lives. It can affect your body in ways that can have a long lasting impact on your health. Here are some ways it can affect your health:

• The Effect Of Stress On Your Brain - Stress can cause you to lose your concentration and memory abilities. Whether this is psychological or physiological is not completely clear. When you are stressed, parts of your brain associated with memory, such as the hippocampus, do not work well and you can't turn short-term memory into long-term memory. You can also fail to concentrate on things you hear or things you're reading. It isn't clear whether this is a long-term effect or short-term effect; however, things like stress reduction techniques seem to be able to restore your ability to think.

• The Effect Of Stress On Your Gastrointestinal Tract - Stress triggers the body's fight or flight response so that epinephrine and norepinephrine are released from your adrenal glands. This has multiple effects on the body. One thing this phenomenon does is shunt blood away from the gastrointestinal tract and toward the muscles of the body as a way of gearing up to "fight or flee" from a real or imagined opponent. This can lead to a decreased blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract, which translates into indigestion and poor uptake of nutrients. Fortunately, this can be short-lived unless you live under situations of chronic stress. Then the GI system will be more permanently affected.

• The Effect Of Stress On Your Cardiovascular System - Stress causes the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine, which automatically raises your blood pressure and heart rate. This puts more strain on your heart and puts you at higher risk of suffering from hypertension-related diseases like heart failure, stroke, and heart attack. These kinds of things do not happen overnight but if you suffer from chronic stress, the long-lasting implications of heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, heart failure, and stroke are real possibilities, especially if you don't eat well or have a strong family history of heart disease.

• The Effect Of Stress On Your Immune System - Excess stress also causes the release of cortisol from the adrenal cortex. Cortisol has many effects on the body but one of the main ones is that it suppresses the immune system. High levels of cortisol mean that you're at greater risk of getting colds and the flu and have a harder time healing from open sores, cuts, or wounds. Cortisol can suppress several aspects of the immune system so you'll find yourself sicker more often when under pressure.

Things You Can Do To Reduce Stress

Because nervous tension can wreak havoc on your body, you need to do what you can to lessen the constant worries in your life so you can remain healthy. It might mean getting out of a stressful relationship, getting your finances in order or changing your job situation so you don't go to work each day with anxious feelings.

If you can't change your circumstances, you may want to practice stress-relieving techniques. These include things like meditation, Tai chi, yoga, and Qi gong.

These activities can be easily learned through attending classes at a local health club or by purchasing a DVD that will teach you ways to reduce the amount of pressure you perceive in your life so you can live a healthier life!

Peggy Everson - Superior Organized Solutions

Certified / Strategic lifestyle/business coach, Professional Organizer, People Problem Solver, Small business owner, Rescue Dog Lover. Got a problem? Let's talk!

Transforming the lives of individuals and entrepreneurs, through coaching and personality profiling! I want my clients to live the life they are meant to live and be happy, healthy and successful. http://superiororganizedsolutions.com/

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