How does chronic stress affect the body?

When you're going through a stressful time it can have knock-on effects on your routine.

Sleep, diet, exercise routines can be thrown out of whack. And when that stress does for weeks or months, it can have a serious impact.

Norman and Tegan unpack the various forms of chronic stress, like burnout, and how they can disrupt your health.

References:

• Chronic Stress - ScienceDirect
• Physiology, Stress Reaction
• The impact of stress on body function: A review
• Stressor-Specific Microbiota Intervention
• Stress and the gastrointestinal tract
• B cells and the stressed brain: emerging evidence of neuroimmune interactions in the context of psychosocial stress and major depression
• Stress, depression, the immune system, and cancer
• The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• 11 healthy ways to handle life’s stressors - American Psychological Association
• Stress-related conditions such as adjustment disorder and clinical burnout can be effectively treated with a 12-week cognitive behavioural programme, both when delivered as a face-to-face treatment and when delivered via the internet

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