How Stress Negatively Affects Your Health and What You Can Do About It Now

Everyone know what stress is, but few of us know exactly what stress does to our bodies. Even less know what we can do about it. Everyday there is an attack of stressors in our lives. Stress is our body’s way of rising to a challenge. Stress is a life threatening situation (or at least our bodies believe it’s life-endangering). Our bodies instantly turn on a stress response solely from a psychological state, like public speaking or dealing with an indignant, roaring person. Although these circumstances are not a life or death situation, the body will treat these scenarios as if they were.

There are two hormones which are present in any intense situation; adrenaline (epinephrine) and glucocorticoid–these are the two components of the stress response. A high frequency of occurrence of these hormones leads to lingering sickness.

Our bodies respond to stress in a number of ways. It jeopardizes our health by causing increased heart rate, high blood pressure, immune mechanism dysfunction (including temporarily shutting down all non-essential functions), killing brain cells (which affects learning and memory–the hippocampus center of the brain) and even causes plaque build up in the arteries (atherosclerosis), among lots of other issues.

Stress is affecting the way our bodies function and it will affect our health today and for many years to come. So what are we able to do? There are terrific supplements for stress on the current market to help you cope with stress. Try and have a happier outlook on life; laugh more, love more and exercise frequently. 1 or 2 great supplements to try: New Chapter’s Rhodiola Force, Holy Basil, and Perfect Calm.

Learning how to cope with stress is key to much better health. Repeated stress attacks only cause more problems for your health, and if you don’t take the time to slow down and realize what effect stress is having on your life, you may regret you didn’t take action. Get a new perspective and try a few all natural stress supplements to see what works best for you!

Written By Annie Grimm, Supporter of All Natural Vitamins and All Natural Supplements