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“The downstream effects of these stress responses include reduced heart rate and blood pressure and overall improvements in cardiovascular health. For even greater benefit, you can piggyback a robust workout with a heat session, effectively extending the workout and potentiating its effects.”

“Psychosocial stress, such as that experienced with discrimination or trauma, has profound effects on the human body. For example, evidence suggests that stress alters the immune system, driving inflammatory processes and impairing antiviral responses.”

“Stress can either sharpen performance or slowly wear down the body, depending on how frequently and intensely it strikes. Chronic stress, especially the kind triggered by psychological or social pressures, can lead to depression, anxiety, and other serious health problems.”

“Participants who drank the high-flavanol cocoa maintained better blood vessel function after stress than those who consumed the low-flavanol drink. Blood vessel function declined considerably within 30 minutes of the stress task in the low-flavanol group but was preserved with high flavanol intake.”

“The authors of the study measured the participants' serum cortisol (a stress hormone) and scored their stress levels via questionnaires before and after the intervention. At the beginning of the study, the two groups' stress level scores were very similar.”

“Robust research highlights magnesium's crucial role in managing stress responses, revealing that stress can promote magnesium loss. This loss can, in turn, increase vulnerability to stress, creating a vicious cycle.”

“To learn more about the harmful effects of stress, watch this clip featuring Dr. Elissa Epel in which she describes how stress can modulate telomere length, a marker of aging. Link to full study. Listen to this audiocast in which Dr. Rhonda Patrick talks about buffering the negative effects of stress with meditation.”

“Injection with a specific probiotic strain of bacteria (called Mycobacterium vaccae) prevents inflammation in the brain caused by stress and reduces stress-induced anxiety behavior in mice.”

“These dual stressors activate physiological responses to stress that ultimately drive inflammation, the underlying cause of many chronic diseases, including atherosclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. Many people in high-stress occupations also work long or irregular hours and may have poor or inconsistent dietary patterns.”

“Stress has far-reaching effects on the human body, including increased risk of chronic disease and other conditions associated with aging. Anecdotal reports suggest that stress can contribute to the premature graying of hair.”