GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 7 | Page 89

You can’t remember the last time you had a day off sick from work but 3
days into your holiday and you’re in bed with the flu when you should be
lounging on the beach. Sound familiar?

THE PROBLEM
What are you doing to me body?!
While working to a scary deadline or studying for an exam, it is as if our
awesome bodies won’t let us get ill.
Often this is exactly what is happening. But why?
In a word, stress. Chronic, low level stress levels can stimulate a steady
flow of hormones, to keep the immune system stimulated to keep
sickness at bay.
Once the deadlines and work pressure fall away, your mind and body
spot an opportunity to do a little housekeeping and start to release its
grip on the stress fuelled system. This allows sickness and exhaustion to
creep in.