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All About Stress!

All About Stress!. Presented by Rockwell. Overview. What is stress? Why do we have it? How does it affect my health? How does it cause heart disease? What can I do about it?. What is Stress?. Your body’s response to a stressor Stress is very different for everyone Stressors Money

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All About Stress!

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  1. All About Stress! Presented by Rockwell

  2. Overview • What is stress? • Why do we have it? • How does it affect my health? • How does it cause heart disease? • What can I do about it?

  3. What is Stress? • Your body’s response to a stressor • Stress is very different for everyone • Stressors • Money • Work • Children • Event • Greif

  4. Why do we have stress?

  5. Affecting Health – Fight or Flight • When you perceive a stressor, your brains triggers an alarm system called fight or flight • This allows you to be prepared to either fight or fee to safety • This occurs even in non-life threatening situations • This is will increase your heart rate, blood pressure, make energy readily available, heighten your senses.

  6. Affecting health • Cortisol is released as part of the stress response • It suppresses non-essential functions during stress: immune, digestion, and reproductive systems; it will also promote hunger and fat storage • Once the stressor is eliminated, hormones and responses are brought back to homeostasis • EXCEPTION: if you are constantly under stress of this nature, cortisol levels and other stress responses are constantly in affect

  7. Affecting Health • Constant stress causes constant hormone release • Will maintain your elevated Blood pressure, Heart Rate, suppressed immune function, digestive and reproductive problems. Stress can affect every system in your body! • Additionally, surges of these hormones through your blood stream can cause damage to your blood vessels promoting heart disease and stroke

  8. What you can do! • Prevention • Relaxation – yoga, meditation, tai chi, massage • Physical activity • Social support • Get plenty of sleep

  9. Activity • For a week, write out your stress levels throughout the day. Also, take note of your mood and/or any other affects (anxious, trouble sleeping, hunger levels) • Did you notice anything interesting? Was the weekend different from the week?

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