Many a time, we give out our precious time for the sake of earning an income. Do you have the hate feeling of working because you don't have a choice? If you don't have a choice and submerge yourself into the stress situation of having to measure up to your KPI, your health will eventually suffer. Acute stress is the leading cause of sudden death, especially in young healthy people with no evidence of coronary disease. But it can fell people at any age. Chronic stress causes heart disease. It is a clandestine cause − not fat or cholesterol − of heart attacks and arterial disease. It contributes to high blood pressure (hypertension), a risk factor for cardiovascular problems such as heart failure and sudden cardiac death and heart enlargement. In cardiology, stress is a grim reaper that abruptly ends life by rupturing unstable plaque in a vital vessel or by triggering a lethal disturbance in heart rhythm.
The truth is that hypertension is very much affected by how stress are managed as its causes your heart to pump extra hard through your body system. Imagine, this goes on for years and what will happen if the arteries and blood vessel can no longer take the kind of blood pressure? The truth is high blood pressure forces the heart to work harder which can make it grow weaker. Prolong high blood pressure stresses arteries and blood vessel increasing the likelihood of ruptures and clots that can restrict blood flow anywhere in the body. The result is a severe risk of heart attack, heart failure and increases the chances of stroke.
Yes, of course, you do have a choice. I would be surprised if you don't unless you are not financially free so that you do not have to exchange the most precious resource you have (i.e. time) for money anymore. You don't want to serve time. Time serves you instead. Upon encountering stressors you have two choices. You can adapt and “go with the flow” by doing something to create change or otherwise ameliorate the situation. Or, you can “mal-adapt” by withdrawing or pushing beyond normal expectations in an effort to make the stress disappear. Sometimes “easier said than done,” adapting may require repeated conscious effort.
If you want to live longer, you better learn to defuse your stress. Scientific evidence has surfaced that stress reduction bolsters longevity by directly impacting your DNA in a favorable way. That revelation comes from the many years of work by three American geneticists who won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Their research (Epal, et. al) involves the study of telomeres, the tail portion of chromosomes that controls the lifespan of cells and their division. These protective structures look something like the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces but act like guardians and timers of cellular aging. As the aging process progresses, telomeres shorten. At some point this shrinkage contributes to cellular senescence and has been associated with many degenerative and age-related conditions.
The research suggests strongly that reduction of stress may help contribute to enhanced longevity and slowing down the telomere attrition. Among the most fascinating studies, Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., one of the Nobel Prize winners from the University of California-San Francisco, organized a study of women caring for children seriously compromised by chronic illnesses and disabilities − talk about incredible stress! − and compared them to mothers of healthy children. When the scientists scrutinized the telomeres by examining blood samples, they found significantly shorter lengths in the mothers most traumatized by their situations.
The researchers wanted to investigate the hypothesis that stress impacts health by affecting the rate of cellular aging. Their study provided evidence that long-term exposure to stress decreases telomerase, the enzyme that provides protection for the telomeres. A shortage of the enzyme results in telomere shortening, leading to accelerated aging through premature cell death.
The stress, they said, not only lowered telomerase activity and shortened telomeres but also generated higher oxidative stress. All of these factors are “known determinants of cell senescence and longevity. Women with the highest levels of perceived stress have telomeres shorter on average by the equivalent of at least one decade of additional aging compared to low stress women. These findings have implications for understanding how, at the cellular level, stress may promote earlier onset of age-related diseases." The attention and acclaim from this line of research hopefully will revive medical interest in dealing with stress in safe, effective, and uplifting ways, beyond just the business-as-usual pharmaceutical approach, which has so many side effects.
Years ago, the American Heart Association finally identified “stress” as an independent factor for heart disease. Over the thirty or so years since, medical science has accumulated indisputable evidence that stress reduction lowers blood pressure, relieves physiological strain on the heart, and may even save your life. Now we are learning the impact of stress down at the DNA level.
We all need to find our own personal antidote to stress and not take it lightly. The truth is once you have managed to stay clear of stress, unknowingly, our blood pressure will resume to the normal pumping pressure. Try taking your own blood pressure everyday to see the effect of staying away from working and enjoying your life stress-free. You will observe that your blood pressure in fact has recovered from the abnormal condition. There is no medicine needed by rather your thoughts and relaxation that regain your heart health again.
Reference: https://heartmdinstitute.com
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