Stress

What is Stress?

• The bodies response to a real or perceived threat
• Meant to get people out of danger
• Triggers the "Fight or Flight Response

"Fight or Flight"

• Response triggered when your body feels stress
• Prepares your body to literally fight or run away

Fight or Flight

• Turns off your immune system
• Turns off you digestive system
• Moves blood from your brain to your muscles
• Increases your heart rate
• Increasaes your blood pressure
• Releases adrenaline into the blood stream

Fight or Flight

• Only designed to be active for short time
• Iguana
• Cooper

Long Term Effects of Stress

• Faster aging process
• Greater risk of nearly every deseise
• Reduces digestive function
• Premature balding
• Increased anxiety

Why

You can control your stress response