Stress can affect your health without noticing it is the underlying issue. Generally, there is always the temptation to blame disease on the expected effects of stress, such as muscle pain, drug/alcohol use, anxiety, and overreaction. If you suspect you are suffering from a stress issue, stress testing Philadelphia may allay your fears.
Below are how stress can negatively impact your health and general well-being.
Difficulty in controlling your emotions
Studies by neuroscientists continue to prove that having stress can affect your emotion controlling ability. The evidence is conclusive that even the mild to moderate sources of stressors you encounter in your daily life can degrade your natural capability to deal with anxiety and fear.
Promote attacks by certain diseases
When your body is stressed, you become more susceptible to attack by some diseases. That is because your body is weak. Stress may lead to liver cirrhosis, cancer, and lung illness.
Stress may also push you to commit suicide or cause an accident that may leave you dead or physically and emotionally harmed.
Affect your love life
Sex may help reduce the stress your body carries. However, stress may also reduce your sexual mood.
As a man, stress can lead to a drop in sexual desire and testosterone production. Furthermore, some studies have proven that when you have stress and anxiety linked with performance during sex, you may have erectile dysfunction.
Gum disease
Stressful situations may trigger grinding of the teeth as a coping mechanism. Also, you may grind your teeth while sleeping or without consciously knowing. The likely long-term outcome of the behavior is damage to your teeth and gums.
Teeth and gum issues may arise from stress caused by work, lack of romance, and marriage.
Heart attacks
Stress can also harm the muscles of your heart. Stress triggers hormones to cause the narrowing of blood vessels and the reduction of regular heart rate. Hence your heart labors to operate in a stressful environment, leading to high blood pressure.
It has been observed that naturally occurring events like earthquakes and tsunamis induce stress among people and cause heart attacks and deaths.
More bodyweight
In the days when humans used to be hunters and gatherers, they usually ate a lot when food was in plenty. That was necessary to have sufficient body fat and energy reserves for a stressful period without sufficient food.
If you often find yourself in a stressful situation, consuming more food and increasing your weight is highly possible. You can avoid overeating by avoiding stressful news broadcasts at night.
Weak immune system
A highly stressed body does not usually have a robust, healthy immune system. And when the immune system is weaker, it is more prone to attack by infections and diseases.
Serious disability
The long-term effect of stress is that you may have to live with a disability. You may acquire conditions such as stroke, mental illness, and hypertension.
Contact Corrielus Cardiology today to learn more about how to recognize symptoms of stress and the prevention and treatment strategies available.