Chapter 15. Stress and Health

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by David Myers and Nathan DeWall

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Thinking Critically About: Stress and Health

Stress invigorates our lives by arousing and motivating us. But stress can also lower our resistance to infections and threaten our well-being.

An infographic shows how stress and health are connected and the factors that connect them. You can read full description from the link below

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Andre’s stress may release stress hormones that affect his autonomic nervous system and suppress his disease-fighting immune system. And under stress, he may become sleep deprived, eat poorly, or engage in other unhealthy behaviors.

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Knowing that stress levels are correlated with higher incidence of illness does not tell us anything about causality—stress could cause illness, illness could cause stress, or some other relationship could exist. Researchers have learned that stress makes us more vulnerable to illness due to the unhealthy effects of stress on our behaviors (smoking, drinking, poor eating, sleep loss) and on our physiology (autonomic nervous system effects, immune suppression, heart disease).