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THE STRESS CUP runneth over!


By John Scriven, Jersey Sports Foundation.


Unlike our predecessors, modern illness is complex. Imagine a cave man being left with a stab wound from a primitive tool covered in bacteria after a fight, the prognosis for his life expectancy is a few days.


Modern medicine easily solves that issue for us, but for someone who has erroneously decided to live a sedentary, high stress and poor nutritional lifestyle, the prognosis is not as clear, and the fix is not as simple. For some it may result in disease and for others it may not affect them at all. Some of the variability in outcome is down to a lack of longitudinal research and genetics, as well as less understood reasons such as psychology, social status, demographics, past experiences and capacity.


What is Stress?


Hans Selye (a pioneering Endocrinologist) defined stress as an engineering term: ‘the amount of force per unit area’. Anything that triggers the stress response is a stressor-including exercise.


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Examples of external stress include food, water, activity, injury, the work environment, traffic. Internal stress can come from physical and mental disease such as injury, disability or anxiety.


The Stress Response


Sit down a cave man or a lion and try to explain emails, traffic jams and deadlines, and they are not going to have a clue what you are talking about. The sources of modern stress are just not something they need to deal with, nor is it what their stress response was designed for. These modern stressors have come about in a very short period of time in technological and social evolution, which has greatly outpaced the evolution of our stress response. Modern humans still have the exact


A short-term physical crisis leads to a ‘stress response’. This stress response allows our brains to access our inbuilt pharmacy, and it administers specialist chemicals such as adrenalin and other hormones to help our escape and repair i.e. to re-establish homeostasis (balance). This stress-response diverts energy from storage sites throughout the body to exercising muscles, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate which accelerates the delivery of nutrients to where they are needed.


same basic stress response as animals running for their lives, however we have evolved to be able to turn ours on and not just for life and death situations but also for psychological reasons too.


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