Did you know that the stress you put on your body each day can lead you to heart problems later in life? When your body is stressed, your heart has to pump harder to get blood moving fast enough to react to the stressor around you. Even if there is no threat that you need to fight or run from, your body will react as if there is. Over time, with your body in overdrive, your organs will tire and start to fail, which how you can end up with a heart attack.
The best way to help combat this effect of stress is through stress management techniques. While it may be difficult to avoid stress, there are things you can do to change your reaction or calm down your physiological response to it. Knowing how to bring your body down to baseline will mean that it has a change to repair and rejuvenate. In addition, decreasing the physiological effects of stress not only saves you energy in case you do need to react to a threat, it prevents damage.
If you know anyone who has died of heart disease, you know how devastating it is to lose a life prematurely due to this type of illness. Think about your own heart health and practice stress management daily. You’ll save your heart and your life.
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Thu, Aug 13, 2009
Stress