Ispectrum Magazine 16 | Page 5

Do you know what exactly happens in our body when we undergo stress? Here is an interesting study conducted on prisoners of the World War II, and it was found that the risk of developing peptic ulcer among them was twice higher than that of the controls. There are several other cases like stress induced hypertension, diabetes, bronchial asthma, infections etc. that comes to an O.P. This might make one think why stress can cause several clinical disorders. We shall know why this happens in the last part of this article. Imagine that you have met with an accident. What happens next? The adrenal gland which is located just above the kidneys, responds to the accident by releasing an emergency hormone known as adrenaline into the bloodstream. This hormone helps in combating daily life stress by changing the body physiology. The adrenaline decreases the flow of blood to the gut and shunt the blood to the body muscles to tackle the tough situation the In our daily life we often undergo stressful situations. There is no avoiding them. The st ɕ