Healthy Lifestyle

Managing the level of stress in your life is important because it not only can make you happier and more productive, but healthier as well. Studies show that high stress levels can take a big toll on the body that can catch up with you later in life. Some of the health problems that prolonged stress can cause include:

• Immune system suppression: The glucocorticoid hormones that are released during the long-term stress response suppress inflammation and the overall activity level of the immune system. This makes glucocorticoids a great treatment when an immune response is not desirable: professional athletes often get cortisone shots when they are injured in order to reduce pain and inflammation and allow them to continue to compete. However, over the long term, these hormones reduce the ability to fight off infection and can make you prone to repeated illness and may reduce your ability to fight off serious infections.
• Ulcer aggravation: While it is now known that stress does not cause stomach ulcers, it can aggravate ulcers that are already present.
• Heart problems: Over the long term, people who react more to stress have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
• High blood pressure: Also called hypertension, this common chronic disease is more prevalent in people who report high levels of stress. While high blood pressure itself usually does not have obvious symptoms, it raises your risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, and heart failure.
• Skin issues: Stress is known to aggravate skin problems such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema. Stress may also cause some otherwise unexplained itchy skin rashes.
• Pain: Chronic stress can cause serious muscular pain such as shoulder pain, backache and tension headache.
• Anxiety and depression: In people who are predisposed, chronic stress can trigger clinical depression and/or anxiety, both debilitating mental disorders.
• Certain chronic diseases: Stress tends to aggravate the symptoms of several chronic diseases including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia.
• Migraine: Many people who suffer from migraine headaches say that stress contributes to their migraines.
• Diabetes: Some evidence suggests that chronic stress may cause type 1 diabetes in people who are already susceptible to the disease however more research needs to be done to better establish this link.

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