STRESS MANAGEMENT: Stress and Burnout Speed Premature Aging
Stress - Portrait of a Killer
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Stress and Aging -- Scientific Evidence
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Burnout and Aging
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Stress the Major Contributor to Premature Aging
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Age creeps up on you silently. The shock of growing old has driven many a tormented soul in search of elixir of youth.
Are you the one who would like to reverse your biological age?
Would you like to cut 10 to 20 years off your biological age - the true age that your body should be measured, in terms of function, rather than your chronological age as measured by the candles on your birthday cake?
I am 49 years old but my biological age states I am 35!!!
Age may be more related to reactions to stress and the absence of disease rather than to a person's chronological age, say leading researchers in the fields of neurobiology and psychoneuroendocrinology.
Although the opposite is right as well. Aging creates stress, especially premature aging.
Stress - Portrait of a Killer
Stress and Aging -- Scientific Evidence
Everyone knows that stress can make you age before your time--but everyone knows is folk wisdom, not science.
But an important new study [team of scientists reported that long-term, unrelenting stress on mothers can damage the DNA of their immune-system cells in a way that may speed up the aging process. the most stressed women in the study had cells that looked 10 years older than their chronological age] shows that there is the direct link between stress and aging. This is a finding that could explain why intense, long-term emotional strain can make people get sick and grow old before their time.
"Everybody's trying to figure out what causes aging and premature aging. We all know that stress seems to age people -- just look at the aging of our presidents after four years," said Dennis H. Novack, who studies the link between emotions and health at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. The new study has "demonstrated that there is no such thing as a separation of mind and body -- the very molecules in our bodies are responsive to our psychological environment."
Are You A Candidate For Burnout?
- Are You A Candidate For Burnout?
Do you lately feel pessimism, increased dissatisfaction, absenteeism and inefficiency at work? Depression, inability to sleep, increasing anxiety,worries, irritability, difficulties to concentrate
Burnout and Aging
"Burnout can certainly make you feel old before your time," says C. David Jenkins, Ph.D., professor of reventive medicine and community health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
"Burnout tends to drain people of the physiological and mental reserves that are, in youth, typically there to keep them going. Luckily, burnout does not necessarily age people or take years off their lives in a permanent fashion. It can be reversed."
Burnout can be reversed! Learn the ways to cope with a burnout.
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Coping With Stress - Stress Eating and Premature Aging
Reduce Stress with Healthy Stress Eating
- How To Resolve Stress Eating Without Changing Anything
- Reduce Stress with Healthy Stress Eating
Some of you may wonder what on earth has nutrition to do with stress? Nutritional stress is actually a major type of physical stress for 21st century people.
The Cortisol Connection
Stress the Major Contributor to Premature Aging
Imagine that you are a zebra strolling across the savanna. You are
minding your business when a lion comes charging towards you from the bushes.
The classical stress reaction of " fight or flight" starts - your
body quickly paces itself through a series of neurological, biochemical,
hormonal, and physiological actions - to escape and survive.
For zebra the stress response runs its complete course, in a relatively short
period. The stress occurs (lion), which causes the zebra's brain and hormonal
system to release a series of stress hormones, which enables to fight or run
away. After getting away from the lion, the zebras stress hormones return to
normal - end of story. Adapted from The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health - And What You Can Do About It by Ph.D. Shawn Talbott Ph.D.
We Humans Are Not So Lucky
In the 21st century we are the victims of chronic stress, burnout and elevated stress hormone - cortisol level.
If we experience stressful events on regular basis and we are unable to effectively rid ourselves from them, then our cortisol levels stay constantly elevated above normal level.
Stress and elevated cortisol levels involves and damages 100% of our body systems, affect our overall health and massively contributes to premature aging.
Healthy Aging For Dummies
Let's look at the facts:
- Nearly 80 million U.S.
adults have some form of cardiovascular disease,(CVD)and someone in U.S. dies every
36 seconds from CVD.
- More than 20 million people have diabetes, and adults with diabetes die from
heart disease at a rate two to four times higher than adults without diabetes.
- Nearly 70 percent of Americans are overweight and more than 30 % are obese.
Get more facts in Healthy Aging For Dummies.
Have you have noticed lately that:
- you are feeling low on energy
- your memory is getting weaker
- your bone density decreases as well as muscle mass and muscles become limp
- your libido and sex drive reduce but menopausal side effects increase
- starting to gain weight and experiencing difficulties to lose it
- your cholesterol level and blood pressure is creeping up
Do you want to object saying that those are signs of aging.
Yes, you are right - a permanently elevated stress hormone - cortisol levels is the shortest way to premature aging.
But I have the good news: you HAVE A CHOICE!
You Have a Choice - Even Two
Indeed you have two choices:
- The easiest choice is to do nothing (like most of people) and let chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels slowly break down our bodily defenses and increase your risk for poor health and LOOKING AND FEELING OLD.
When you don't do anything, you'll become a likely candidate for a burn-out.
- The more effective choice is to take action toward stress management.
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"The findings emphasize the importance of managing life stress, to take it seriously if one feels stressed, to give your body a break, and make life changes that promote well-being," Elissa Epel, a psychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who helped conduct the research said.
If you have a highly stressed lifestyle, you must act NOW to eliminate as much stress as you can to stay healthy and stop the signs of premature aging.
Or you might like to start
How To Create Stress Management Plan For Free
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If you're ready to reduce stress in your life, creating your own stress management plan may help you to reach your stress reduction goals, whatever they might be.
About the Author
Dr. Inese Millere, is a medical doctor turned diplomat, turned mindful eating coach for busy women over 40 who want to overcome stress eating, have a healthy and joyful relationship with food and enjoy healthy living and longevity.
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