Stress in human life

Stress in a person's life is quite common. About stress almost everyone says, and as a rule, most people think that the cause of stress is constant problems, including the health problems. True, few people wondered what this concept means. Our body is so arranged that it constantly needs balance. Although people with their attitude towards each other and their behavior violate such a balance, in this case our body has to work constantly "on the edge", while striving to maintain a good current of all mental and physiological processes, in other words, virtually no rest.

Internal and external stresses

It is common to divide stresses into internal and external stresses. As a rule, external stresses have the ability to influence from the outside to us, and internal - from the depths of our body.

Reasons for the emergence of stress

As you know, external causes of stress include bad habits, the impact of aggressive ecology, prolonged exposure to sunlight, problems in your personal life, and persistent workloads. For example, in a person's life it can be parting with a loved one, any personal tragedy or unhappiness. Internal factors include: disturbances in the immune system and endocrine, food allergies, meager and malnourished nutrition, depressive conditions that arise from lack of necessary substances in the body.

At first glance it may seem that this division is correct, but it is worthwhile to understand this more carefully. Of the factors considered to be external, only misfortunes and tragedies can really be considered as such, since they occur independently of a person, of his will and desire, and, perhaps, an ecological one, because we also choose a place of residence consciously. For sure, many will seem that this is far from the case. But you must agree, we make a choice ourselves: whether to use alcohol or not, to smoke or not, we choose our work, how to act in certain situations, how to behave with our beloved person.

Harm of stress

In life, stress is very common. Its effect on the body is very dangerous and harmful. The thing is that this reaction is very ancient. During the reception of any emotions in the body there are some changes. For example, the pulse, breathing speed increases, the heart pumps more blood, the vessels greatly expand, the spleen starts to work in an accelerated mode, the number of lymphocytes increases, the pupils widen, the digestion slows down, because the body needs energy for the muscles and heart. Nature has designed stress in order to allow a person to take active action in a short period of time. But in our time, people usually do not allow themselves to relax and rest, even at a time when it is simply vital, which is why the body is constantly in a state of combat readiness. Our body constantly tries to restore balance in all possible ways, tries to adapt to stress, if it is very prolonged.

Stress and health

When a person is in a state of prolonged stress, he weakens his immunity. The immune system, which is constantly on alert, can not give its attention to combating infections, developing oncology and colds. The state of danger, which is caused by stress, is very important for our immune system, than protection from foreign microorganisms and infections, then the activity of the cells that are responsible for this defense is suppressed.

Struggle with stress

Under the influence of stress in the human body, much more free radicals are formed than in normal conditions. In order to fight them, you need nutrients: minerals and vitamins. With this task, vitamins C, A and E, zinc or selenium, which are very much in tomatoes, citrus fruits, olive oil, pumpkin, kiwi, seafood, sesame seeds and plums, are best cope with this task.

When you are frustrated or tired, it is not recommended to drink black tea or coffee. It is best for you to drink freshly squeezed juice, or juice from the tetra package. Your body will have a much better chance of surviving.

Try to change the diet of your diet, if you can not change the environment around you. Stop eating refined foods and drink carbonated drinks. Try to include in food those products that are simply necessary to combat stress.

Stress in life happens often, especially often it occurs in people who work in a tense environment. During the weekend try to eat only raw foods. Prepare salads from fruits and vegetables, eat honey, nuts, cereals, fresh dairy products, drink as much freshly squeezed juices, compotes. And then you will be much easier to cope with stress.