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Article #321: Stress and the Immune System

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Stress and the immune system play a vital nerve conduction cause changes in your
role in your life and overall health. heart rate and blood vessels,
Day-to-day stressful events affect how compromising the immune system's response
your body responds to fighting illnesses. when you enter situations that cause you
Stressful events that occur on a stress.
short-term basis can change the way your To help lower the chances that stress and
immune systems responds temporarily. the immune system will negatively affect
Responses from the immune system to your daily life, you can take steps such
short-term stresses can actually be as eating right, getting regular exercise
helpful in some cases, redistributing and getting plenty of rest. Your body
cells in a positive manner to help your needs you to take care of it so that it
body adapt as a quick-fix. Moderately can help take care of you. Eating
stressful events, however, can have a healthy and nutritious foods is a good
damaging impact on your body's immune place to start. Consumption of foods
system, while traumatic and chronic such as orange vegetables (carrots,
stress can compromise your immune pumpkin, squash, and sweet potatoes) help
system's ability to perform. with the Vitamin A your skin needs to
Individuals react differently to help prevent bacteria from getting into
stressful situations: some experience your body. Lean, low-fat beef and
more physiological changes when under certain types of mushrooms containing
pressure than others. Stress and the zinc promote the building of white blood
immune system can bring about conditions cells to help fight infection. Tea,
in which your body's cells can actually fortified cereals and yogurt also aid in
be suppressed and rendered unable to keeping your immune system functioning
engage in their useful functions of well.
protecting your body against infections. You can also try to keep your stress
From one stressful presentation you have levels at a minimum -- easier said than
to make at work, to the everyday traffic done for a lot of people. Practice
congestion that can turn into road rage, deep-breathing exercises and other
stress and the immune system play a anxiety-calming techniques to try to
significant role in your overall health. reduce your stress levels. Stress and
If your body's immune system isn't the immune system can negatively impact
functioning properly, all sorts of germs, your body's health and well being when
bacteria, viruses, and diseases have the stress gets out of hand and your immune
opportunity to pass into your system to system isn't up to its job. Stress is a
cause you more grief. physiological process, but you can take
Diabetes, ulcers, heart attacks, and psychological steps to rein it in and get
asthma are just a few conditions made control over the situation before it gets
worse by the effects of stress and the out of control and causes an illness to
immune system. Increases in chemicals befall you.
produced by your body that help with






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