Stress Will Defeat Your Anti Aging Efforts

You can have stress in your life from a variety of sources and it can be emotional or physical, but the impact caused by any type of stress affects your anti-aging efforts.

You’ll notice that your immune system doesn’t react the way that it should.

You might not have as much energy as you once had. Your ability to concentrate on things can become a problem, too. This happens because stress ages the body.

You might be young, but feel much older physically as a result of the toll that stress takes on your body.

Stress can cause your blood pressure to go up. It can also cause you to develop aches and pains and lose sleep. The body is being affected because of the release of hormones that happens when you get stressed.

Over time, these stress-released hormones can even affect your memory retention. But what else it does inside your body is it revs up the aging process. When you’re under stress, it can make your body much older than what it actually is.

That’s because stress shortens your telomeres. Your telomeres are like caps on your chromosomes and their job is to conserve the chromosome. They’re like gatekeepers and work to keep your chromosomes healthy and functioning properly.

Stress shortens these gatekeepers, which allows damage to occur to your chromosomes. One problem that occurs is the increasing the rate at which your body ages because the cells get shorter faster than they normally would.

This is not a little bit of aging, either. Stress can age your body years and even decades – rapidly, which shortens your lifespan. Not only does it damage your telomeres, but it ages your brain.

You can develop age-related conditions like dementia, confusion and more all because of stress. It can affect your vision and your hearing as well, causing diminished abilities and even loss.

The reason that this happens is because when the body encounters stress, your adrenals boost production of hormones. These hormones can cause your blood pressure to rise, which affects your vision.

When you develop pressure in the eyes, it causes blurriness and can cause eye strain and light sensitivity. It can also worsen the side effects of any current eye condition you have.

Stress affects your ears because it limits the amount of blood flow by tightening your blood vessels. When the ears have a limited amount of blood, it causes damage by hurting the auditory cells.

When the stress is chronic, you can experience hearing loss. Some people who have stress may also develop tinnitus.

When stress affects the eyes and ears, reducing the stress so that the cortisol and adrenaline are returned to normal usually restores vision and hearing.

Is Your Hair Thinning Due to Stress?

Your hair has three phases during its growth cycle. The first one is the anagen phase. This is the part of hair growth that can last for years and the length of the years can vary according to the genetic makeup of the person.

The second stage of hair growth is known as the catagen phase. This part is considerably shorter and lasts just over a week or so. Finally, the hair cycle goes into the telogen phase and this lasts about twelve weeks.

It’s during this part that you’ll notice you might lose strands of your hair. When your hair is in this phase, it’s known as the resting stage.

Once the resting stage is complete, the hair growth cycle starts over with the anagen phase.

Stress disrupts this cycle. While it might seem like a myth that stress affects the hair, it does - and both men and women can go bald and it can happen whether you’re young or old.

Stress is one of the main reasons that your hair thins and you develop patchy hair growth and baldness. Stress thinning of the hair is known as telogen effluvium.

When you experience this type of stress-affected hair thinning, the cycle of hair growth is broken.

Instead of completing the healthy growth cycle, the stress causes the hair to quit growing. When the hair’s growth cycle is changed, it makes your hair start to fall out.

This stage is when you get the thinning areas and baldness.

You might see one bald patch or you might see several. You may first notice it when you bow your head and look in a mirror.

Though stress can thin the hair on the scalp, you can also start to lose hair in other places on your body if your stress is severe or is chronic.

It can take several months for the hair to resume its normal cycle. But the good news is that when your hair thins because of stress, you can restore your hair.

As soon as you get rid of the stress and your body is no longer dealing with it, your hair growth resumes its natural ability.

That’s why it’s important not to let stress linger in your life. There’s no set time for when your hair will stop thinning. The speed at which it grows back will vary from person to person.

Some of this will depend on the types of foods that you’re eating. A healthy diet can promote good hair growth and so can certain vitamins and minerals.

You’ll want to make sure that you take vitamins known to promote healthy hair growth such as Vitamin B.

Consume foods rich in Vitamin C, too - since it helps the body make collagen, which is necessary for hair growth.

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Warren Tattersall has been a full time nutritional consultant for over 35 years and works with people all over the world to help them improve their health, increase their personal energy levels and to use supplements to assist with diet related health issues.

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