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Worrying isn't only cause of
Stress
By Dr. Narinder Saini M.D.
To the human body, any change, whether good or bad,
causes stress. Even an imagined change can cause stress.
Sure, the worst things, like a death in the family or
a divorce cause the most stress However, those little
changes in your life can really add up the amount of stress
that you put your body through every day.
So what's really going on when you undergo a physical,
environmental, emotional, or imagined change in your life?
As we all know, the nerve cells in the brain receive trillions
of messages every day, relaying all sorts of information
from one cell to another. Cells can receive both "good
messengers" and "bad messengers." As long as
the ratio of good messengers to bad messengers is balanced,
your body can go on handling all the messages your brain
wants to send. However, once the stressors are put on
your body, fewer good messengers are sent around the brain,
and more bad messengers are received. It is then that
people begin to experience the anxiety, fatigue, insomnia
and aches and pains that are commonly associated with
stress.
Stress tolerance is mostly genetic and allows people to
keep making good messengers even when the bad messenger
level is high. People with high stress tolerances can
take plenty of stress and in many cases seem to crave
it. For the not-so-lucky ones who have low stress tolerances,
overstress is a serious issue.
So what exactly are the "good messengers" that your brain
is sending?." Some example of good messengers include
serotonin (helps you sleep), noradrenalin
(gives you energy), and dopamine (sets your pleasure and
pain levels). Thus, when the firing levels of these three
chemicals in your brain decrease, the body experiences
sleeplessness, lack of energy, depression, and physical
aches and pains. This in turn can cause anxiety over the
body malfunctions, and this makes them worse. This is
where the correlation between stress and heart disease
and other chronic conditions like Fibromyalgia etc. is
made. Think of stress as a disruption in your body's normal
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