Stress has a big impact on your general health and wellbeing, which is why you want to try and live life with a little less stress in your life where possible.
If you’re able to manage stress, then you can reduce the impact it has on your health and wellbeing. That can have a positive knock-on effect later on in life as you get older.
With that being said, here are five surprising ways stress affects your health and ways to combat it.
Stress is something that can really hinder the immune system, especially if you’re experiencing a stressful environment on a regular basis. That could be in the workplace or within your personal life. Therefore, it’s important be aware of how stress can hinder your immune system.
You’re more likely to get sick with colds or the flu if you’re stressed out and run down. Try to identify the triggers that stress causes so that you keep your immune system as healthy as it can be.
Blood sugar levels are likely to be influenced negatively when it comes to stress. Stress can impact blood sugar levels in individuals with type 1 diabetes and that can result in a dangerous situation for a person’s healthy if they have this type of diabetes.
It’s therefore important to manage your stress and to identify the symptoms of type 1 diabetes so if it does become apparent that you may have it, then it’s important to get seen by your doctor.
Stress can often contribute to your libido levels and for men, erectile dysfunction in particular. Fertility issues in women can also be caused by stress which might be a contributing factor for those who are struggling to get pregnant.
While not always the case, there may be some proof for stress contributing to the inability to get pregnant due to worrying so much about not falling pregnant in the first place.
Sleep is something that can really be affected when it comes to stress, which is why you should be mindful of how well you’re sleeping every night. If you struggle to sleep, then you may want to assess how much stress you tend to feel on average.
Stress not only influences quality of sleep but how easy it can be to fall asleep to begin with.
When you have excessive glutamate, that’s associated with stress hormones, it often contributes to neurodegenerative conditions. Whether that’s Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or Huntingdon’s disease, these are degrenerative conditions anyone would want to avoid.
Not being of sound mind is everyone’s worst nightmare both for the person who experiences it but for all the family and loved ones around them.
It’s helpful to try and reduce your stress levels where possible, so with that being said, do what you can to better manage your stressors in the future.
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