Everyone has stress now and then.\u00a0 Life is filled with challenges and changes, and we need to cope with them on a daily basis.\u00a0 For instance, there is always stress at home.\u00a0 Your spouse may have different needs or expectations, and you need to respond to them.\u00a0 If you have children, they have needs and wants that you will have to respond to every day.\u00a0 Your job or career will give you problems and challenges that you need to resolve.\u00a0 In short, every day there is normal stress that we must confront and resolve.<\/p>\n
There is, however, chronic stress that doesn’t go away.\u00a0 Even when you don’t have a particular problem, just thinking about a problem brings on a stressful response.\u00a0When you have a problem that can be\u00a0easily\u00a0solved, you may still have thoughts about it that doesn’t go away so easily.\u00a0 You may have worries or thoughts about the past or future\u00a0but can’t do anything about them.\u00a0 All of these worrisome thoughts cause chronic stress.<\/p>\n
Chronic stress causes your brain, the part in the lower part of the\u00a0temporal lobe ( the hypothalamus) \u00a0to stimulate the pituitary gland to produce a stress hormone (ACTH) that in turn stimulates the adrenal glands above the kidneys to make the stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine.\u00a0 In chronic stress, these hormones can block arteries in the brain and cause a stroke, or block arteries going to the heart and causing a heart attack.\u00a0 Every one has normal stress during the course of life, but when stress becomes chronic (bad stress) it can do damage to our brain and heart.\u00a0 It can be fatal.<\/p>\n
In my book, Create a Healthy Lifestyle, I discuss how you can discover the “secrets” of health and happiness.\u00a0\u00a0The good news is:\u00a0We\u00a0can prevent chronic stress from wrecking havoc on\u00a0our health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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