How stress accelerates the process of aging?
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Stress can be defines as the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it. However, it is not actually the stress which harms us and attributes to faster aging but distress which occurs when we prolong emotional stress and don’t deal with it in a positive manner.
Stress in itself is not a negative thing. Where stress becomes negative is our responses to it. For example, if your reaction to negotiating a big business deal is not a pleasurable suspense, but a killing anxiety, your body will respond with a headache or stomach ache, and your immune system may become weaker as well.
This type of negative stress creates a number of ailments, from mental frustration, anxiety, and depression, to headaches, allergies, ulcers, and heart disease. In the long run, the negative response to stress can wear down the immune system, potentially leading to cancer and other diseases traditionally associated with aging.
Moreover, negative stress increases our bodies’ production of free radicals. In response to a stressful situation, the hypothalamus releases neuropeptides that keep the body in a perpetual state of excitement. This, in turn, causes the pituitary to stimulate the adrenal glands, which, in turn, produce the stress hormones: cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Cortisol may be a particularly dangerous catabolic hormone as far as aging is concerned. Apparently, high cortisol levels, generated by negative responses to stress, interfere with the immune system as well as actively encourage disease.
There are a number fo ways we can combat the destructive effects of a negative response to stress, particularly, diet and regular exercise.
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