Stress: From Burnout To BalanceExploring the effects of physiological stress, this volume looks at ways to reduce these effects and to improve health overall. In addition to defining stress, the author discusses: personality types and temperaments; stress and reproduction; the immune system; depression; memory and stress; and ageing. He also provides practical tips on stress management techniques, including breathing exercises, massage and physical exercise. |
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Page 35
This reveals that stress-related diseases can arise from turning off the stress
responses too slowly, or turning off different components at different speeds.
Another way to look at it is to visualize two tug-of-war teams skillfully supporting
their rope with a minimum of tension; the body works to carefully maintain
metabolic equilibrium by making adjustments whenever something disturbs this
balance. The strong men in these teams are hormones. The trouble is that some
stress-response ...
This reveals that stress-related diseases can arise from turning off the stress
responses too slowly, or turning off different components at different speeds.
Another way to look at it is to visualize two tug-of-war teams skillfully supporting
their rope with a minimum of tension; the body works to carefully maintain
metabolic equilibrium by making adjustments whenever something disturbs this
balance. The strong men in these teams are hormones. The trouble is that some
stress-response ...
Page 103
Figure 9.1: Immune Response Under Stress To summarize — • During stress, the
stress-response hormones cause a transient activation of the immune system. •
Stress response enhances the immune defences and helps in redistributing them
to the site of the infection. • To avoid the danger of overshooting into
autoimmunity, exposure to glucocorticoids brings the immune system back to the
pre-stress level. In the case of chronic stress and prolonged glucocorticoids
release, the ...
Figure 9.1: Immune Response Under Stress To summarize — • During stress, the
stress-response hormones cause a transient activation of the immune system. •
Stress response enhances the immune defences and helps in redistributing them
to the site of the infection. • To avoid the danger of overshooting into
autoimmunity, exposure to glucocorticoids brings the immune system back to the
pre-stress level. In the case of chronic stress and prolonged glucocorticoids
release, the ...
Page 166
Unfortunately, for the scientists, some everyday examples opened up another set
of factors that control stress response. Take an example of a small child getting
an injection. The stress response can be fairly easily calculated and a neat
mathematical model can explain it. Now if the same child has a loving parent who
will comfort it, the obvious result is that the child will show less of a stress
response. The critical fact here is that body's stress response (physiological
response) can be ...
Unfortunately, for the scientists, some everyday examples opened up another set
of factors that control stress response. Take an example of a small child getting
an injection. The stress response can be fairly easily calculated and a neat
mathematical model can explain it. Now if the same child has a loving parent who
will comfort it, the obvious result is that the child will show less of a stress
response. The critical fact here is that body's stress response (physiological
response) can be ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Stress: From Burnout To Balance |
| Author | Vinay Joshi |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, 2005 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2011 |
| ISBN | 0761933123, 9780761933120 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior |
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