Stress and Your Body
How have you been feeling lately? The world is a different place and it is not an easy time right now. The global state has undoubtedly created stress in your life, in one way or another. We are all adjusting to new schedules, new barriers, new routines and missing things that would normally bring us peace and happiness.
Living in a stressful state is not just hard on us mentally, but it is also hard on our bodies physically. Stress makes us tired, snappy, we look like hell and our bodies suddenly stop cooperating. By the time we see these signs, stress has already been working its way through our bodies for a while.
Stress isnโt always a bad thing. On one hand, stress signals the body to change various hormones and the levels of those hormones in order to help us adapt. This is great and benefits us in many situations!
On the other hand, our bodies are NOT designed to battle stress on a daily basis (like so many of us ask it to do).
Here are some things that too much stress can do inside of your body:
Increase heart rate, forcing your heart to work harder than it should
Hormone secretion resulting in major bloat, water retention & horrible digestion
Disruption of your menstrual cycle that can eventually impair reproductive function
Decreased thyroid function, resulting in ZERO energy, way less sleep and frustrating weight gain (despite not changing ANYTHING in your diet or routine).
Stress is inevitable. But managing it is KEY to our lifelong health and happiness. There are a lot of things that we can not control in life right now, but what we can control is our response to this situation. So what can we do?
