How bad is stress? I'm 43 and had 3 strokes one of which was massive and paralyzed half my body. I refused to listen to everyone including my doctors who tried to warn me I was completely, totally, utterly over stressing myself. I thought succubing to stress was for the weak and I just needed to move on as I'm from a military family and stress never killed anyone but inaction did. I was completely wrong and I live every single nanosecond wishing I could go back and some sense into my kick my own ass. Now my family has more to worry and stress about taking care of me because I cannot take care of myself. Never try to shoulder all the burden yourself. Sometimes you do literally need to deplug and disconnect from everything to stay alive and healthy. This is not a weakness, it's a primal survival message from our body.
I also think it's important to remember that you don't have to have a family, bills, debt and a shitty job to be stressed out. Stress impacts everybody differently but your body only knows if you are stressed. It doesn't care what is making you stressed.
Can you do a video on "How depression and stress affects the brain?" Do brain cells really die with because of prolonged stress? And what damages it does emotionally and physically?
Cells are supposed to die, whether you take stress or not, however prolonged amount of stress could over stimulate your amygdala, which is responsible for fear, and eventually cause Alzheimer's, but even that is not possible if you're in a young age
I'd say the problem about mental illnesses is that the brain links in ways that are harmful to you. so there are physiological changes in your brain. the hard job is to reverse those connections and make new healthy connections which takes alot of therapy 😅
Could you talk about what happens to a woman’s body after she has a baby? Like how long it takes for your body to go back to normal? It would be cool to see over time what your body goes through over time after a baby
Second! Postpartum stress would be so interesting to learn about! Maybe it would be an example of an emotional stressor with a similar duration to the emotional stressors we feel today but was experienced by the ancestral people mentioned in this video.
I love the emphasis on how seeing a “GOOD” therapist can help with stress. Seeing a bad therapist would most likely have the opposite effect on your mental health
When I was 23 I scored 8 out of the top ten stressors. Taken aback at my answer to "where does the shoe pinch" , my new Shrink asked if he could make me a case study, and months later told me he didnt know how id survived. ( stressors included moms death, divorce, moving, death of a child, job loss, a life threatening illness, possible 30 year incarceration etc etc. All in a 9 month period. 50 years on my being terminally ill doesn't even faze me. With the right tools, and a great shrink, mines named was Dr. Head (oh the irony) , you can survive anything
As someone who has lived with General anxiety and panic attacks, thank you so much for going over this. Almost every medical issue I had was eventually traced back to stress and anxiety which had been left unaddressed for years. Informing everyone helps them advocate for the help they need, since some might not put all the different effects together.
@@cosmicnights How has covid and the additional worries from that affected it? If being in a situation that is normally already a problem I would expect heaping more concerns and rules to follow on top of it (especially early on with less being known and no vaccines available) being very unhelpful. Knowing how much a person I know with claustrophobia dreads small spaces without windows and especially elevators I can't even imagine what it must be like trying to function with something like that. At least elevators if they are truly needed won't take very long and usually there are stairs as an alternative, with agoraphobia it's practically impossible to "just avoid open spaces" assuming that's the trigger while still doing normal things most people want to do. Seems like it could quickly lead to a tendency to isolate yourself and not go to many places.
I also have anxiety and depression and therapy nor medication has done anything to make me feel like what I imagine should be normal. Has any of this worked for you? Therapy seems like total BS, one expensive step above calling a friend.
You're a smart guy. Anyone who can speak in uninterrupted/ unbroken sentences, is firing on all cylinders. That's a gift not many possess. I subscribed
I just had to have an MRI on my brain because all my stress.😩 . Memory loss, auto immune disorder, speech issues. Crazy how stress can cause these things.
Stress caused me to go into burn-out. Never actually recovered from it. My memory is not that great anymore and I am in my 30s. I have a concentration span of that from a young child. I had bad skin, always suffered from break outs. I lost a lot of my hair. I used to have long, luscious hair. And don't get me started on all the permenant body aches I have today.
I went through something very similar and I can only say that it takes time and consistent effort into prioritizing sleep, nutrition, exercise, and stress management to get back to normality. It absolutely sucks and you feel miserable until you start seeing the changes compound enough to be noticeable, but it's not a lost cause. Trust yourself.
Get your GP to order the usual blood panels and also tests for excess inflammation. I started hurting all over and lost my appetite and had dramatic weight loss, all after a string of stressful events, and it turned out I had an autoimmune condition that fortunately was treatable.
I really believe that chronic stress can be mentally (obviously) damaging but also physiologically damaging . I was trying to finish my degree(in Psychology!!) and now recognise that I was suffering chronic, severe stress( which used to be known as suffering a”nervous breakdown “)After weeks of early morning vomiting,everyday, I managed to talk a doctor into prescribing benzodiazepines for the last couple of months before I graduated. It would have been far better for me to speak to a therapist, which years later I did. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with MS five years after years of chronic stress, and although I am aware that there are many factors which are probably responsible for the disease, however I am amazed at the high number of people with MS who report a long period or even lifetime chronic stress which occurred 5 or more years before their first noticeable symptoms of the disease. Chronic stress is a killer but it can also result in chronic disease , so please don’t be like me all those years ago and seek help early when stress becomes chronic or overwhelming!
Disagree with some of this...I believe MS and other neurological diseases come about in 20's, or right about the time when responsibility gets dumped on us. They is no causation. I have bipolar (neurological disease) and I don't believe it was caused by stress. But I do need to reduce stress in my life to manage it
@@WalterWhite-pr1qs if you’re disagreeing with my comments/story regarding my diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis as being perhaps a result of chronic stress, I agree with you to a point.For a start I WAS in my early twenties when MS symptoms appeared & were diagnosed.However, despite the large amount of scientific evidence which demonstrates that chronic stress interferes with the immune system, I did not intend to suggest that stress causes MS-that would suggest causation and as any neurological researcher would tell you, the causes of MS are still unknown.Thus there are treatments but no cure. I was merely commenting on the correlation between chronic stress and physical disease in the medical literature and in my experience of meeting others diagnosed with autoimmune disorders . I hope that this comment has clarified my prior remarks.
Learning can be fun! Many years ago when I was taking prerequisites for nursing school, this stuff was difficult to learn. You tie it together quite nicely. Thanks! (maybe it’s easier to learn now because I’m not stressed about it)
I have ulcerative colitis and was diagnosed with PTSD shortly after my weight and health began to stabilize. It’s really interesting seeing the connection between my emotions and my immune response. My nervous system was really impacted too (tremors, weak voice) but now that I’m nourished and away from stress my body is getting back to normal again. A ton of the symptoms I thought were because of my UC were actually due to the stress response, like weak muscles and trembling. I mean it kind of sucks but it gave me a deeper appreciation of how complex the human body is.
I have a dose of positivity for you. In my small hometown when I go shopping I hide random stickers around the store for people to find. So far from what I've heard people think it's funny and are trying to find out who keeps leaving Dr Phil ranch stickers next to the dressings.
After my wife passed away I was warned not to make any big life-changing decisions for four months afterwards. I broke that rule when I decided to retire two months after my wife died. Shortly after I retired my _mom_ passed away; and in between I lost three of my wife's siblings, with whom I was close for years. The impact it's had on my body after watching this video was predictable; my blood pressure has shot up and still not 100% under control, I've gained about 20 lbs, all in my belly, and the alarm at all these deleterious impacts has heightened my stressors. Oh well....lesson learned. Now, to fix it....
I'm so glad you guys have expanded to touch these types of topics. My stress is reduced when I learn the ins and outs of the system that's being affected. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for discussing the issues with chronic stress! Unfortunately, I dealt with it for about a year and a half due to issues at work. I was tense 24/7 & was not my normal self. I was on anxiety meds, but they weren't helping much because I couldn't get out of the situation. I had problems losing weight & just kept putting on the extra pounds. Things did come to an end when I was let go. At first, I hated this reality but soon realized that it was for the best. Even though I'm currently looking for a new job, I feel less tense than I have been during the 18 months of my poor work environment. I know things will work out, & that I'll land a job when the time is right. Until then, I'm trying to live a relatively stress-free life.
Perfect video thank you so much! I just needed this right now as im a therapist and there’s so much to learn about the mind and body and how they work together. Please do make more videos about psychology as well it will be very helpful. ❤️
This goes hand in hand with what I've been learning about health problems in the fire service. Cancer is #1 but a hefty, regular dose of cortisol probably plays a role in all of their other health problems
This is packed with great information! I never knew just how much was involved in stress reactions. I love your channel and keep up the good work, it's very much appreciated 👍
This was a great video thank you! I have complex regional pain syndrome for 7+ years. I can totally relate with everything you're saying mentally and physically. I now have it full body with some organs being affected. I hope and pray that they will find a cure for this because it is so difficult to live day by day. Once again thank you, from Tennessee🙏💚
Hi Jennaleigh, Seeing your comment is like being on another planet and finally seeing another person lol. I also have CRPS! My name is Joel and I’m from Stockton (unfortunately not in California) but the North-east of England. I’m so sorry you have to go through this horrible condition but though I don’t know you, I can relate. I don’t have it in my left leg, I had an amputation in 2019 after I was hit by a van whilst riding my motorbike in 2015. I couldn’t walk or stand and was eventually diagnosed with CRPS. Since my amputation I have climbed Ben Nevis (highest mountain in Britain) and just this week bought my dream motorbike. I can’t do a lot due to this constant pain with CRPS and amputee issues but I don’t have to live like someone with constant pain and one leg and most importantly if I can do something anyone can. After living with this for seven years this November (CRPS awareness month as you’ll already know) I can finally discuss things more openly due to the complications of legal reasons but though there is no cure currently I will try and do something to help others with this as I know I taken a risk with an amputation and there are people worse off than myself with this. Even still after seven years nearly I have family and close friends who still don’t have a clue about what I go through on a daily basis and how it effects my life and many others around the world. I promise I will do my best to spread awareness and make the world a better place: it may be impossible, but impossible isn’t enough of a reason not to try Jennaleigh. People say life’s a beach… when life throws a wave and knocks over your sand castle, build another. If that one gets knocked over, build another. Never give up, you will come back bigger and stronger! 💪🏻 Much love and hope 🧡
@@Out_on_a_limb Hello 👋 Your message is so incredibly sweet. I love your story. It's so inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with me. I really think you should write a book, or film some of your journeys as you climb or ride! I followed your UA-cam channel just in case you decide to share any videos. I'm sure that others out there would love to hear and see your story as well. It's been a blessing to meet you. Thank you for your kind words. Love, light and many blessings from Tennessee.💚🕯🙏
Your Videos are just perfect. I find it to be a good balance of anatomy, pathology/ physiology. And it‘s easy to follow along even if you don‘t have a lot of knowledge about a topic
This vedio is damn helpful for students preparing for entrance exams 😊 we need to know the consequences of having stress, n u guys are doing excellent job in creating awareness about this issues about which people rarely talk about
@@theanatomylab I recently lost my Mum (late November on her B-Day 2021) to the Horrific "Side Effects" of Dementia/Alzeimeirs after leaving my Career and Personal Relationships to move back closer to my Parents to help my Dad Care for her for the last five years. Thank God she Never "Forgot Us", but her Physical, Mental and Verbal Decline was So Traumatizing, I'm Not sure if We'll Ever Recover....As a Result, I started, and Continue to suffer from things like; Fits of Crying, Appetite Loss, Social Isolation Depression etc. In May 2022 I woke up with Sudden, Unbelievable Stomach Pain....I didn't want to see another inside of a Hospital so I thought I would just "Tough It Out" Whatever was Happening.....My Dad saw me Hours later doubled over in Pain and He called an Ambulance...Turns Out, I was Critcally ill and Didn't know it! Apparently, over this Stressful Time, I had Developed 2 large ulcers in my stomach which ended up eating a hole in the stomach lining. So my stomach was perforated, and the Toxic, Acidic, Stomach Bile was rapidly entering the intestinal system, abdominal cavity, and surrounding Organs, Tissue etc. Causing Damage and that's the pain I was feeling. Particularly when I laid on my back it was unbearable As that's where the hole was at the top of my stomach and lying backwards would just empty out the bile faster into my Abdominal cavity which also caused a massive infection called H-Pylori. They literally told me in the ER if I had come in 24 hours later I would've been dead. The ulcers were caused by the stress I was dealing with I know alot of ulcers are caused by medications or other issues but all that was ruled out and given what I had been dealing with that was the obvious answer. I ended up having to have emergency surgery that night and was in the hospital for 3 weeks afterwards having the bile removed through tubes in my nose and the surgery patched the hole in my stomach, but I couldn't eat for 2 weeks because they had to remove all the bile and make sure the patch stuck. So they tried to insert what they call a PIC line into my arm to try and get my Body some direct nutrition as I was rapidly losing alot of weight I'm very tall and a healthy weight for me is approximately 150 to 170 pounds I went down to a 100 pounds in the hospital and I've been out of the hospital for Like a month now and I have gained some weight back I'm up to 130, but I still have issues with eating food and digesting and they say my Systwm may take a whole year to feel better and recover. Can you help me understand if the initial Catharsis of this issue came from hormones due to Stress released in the brain that affected my gastrointestinal trac Per your video? If Not, where did it Originate from? My apologies for the long message! Thanks Kindly, @ladyk_love 🙏💗🇨🇦
@@KirstiStephenson I will type up the Google response to my question for you "How does stress affect stomach acid secretions." "The stress response of the body results in the decrease of gastric renewal, leading to atrophy of the gastric mucosa. Blood flow to the stomach decreases and makes the stomach more prone to acid-pepsin ulceration and hyperacid secretion" Hope this is helpful, meaning less gastric mucosa which lowers the pH of the acid and helps clean the stomach. The higher acidity will cause perforation and could be fatal in a short time.
@@emanuelmifsud6754 Thanks for your response Emanuel, much appreciated. I have spoken to My Surgeon and done alot of Research online including Basic searches about this Myself. I posed the Question because the Video was almost exclusively focused on the Stress Response on the Body starting Via Hormones etc being released in the Brain... So I was Curious to see if in fact their wad some sort of "Prequel" to My Condition Originating in the Brain and then as a result playing a part in the Stomach Perforation and Infection? Or was one of the #1 cases of ER visits in North America (stomach perforation caused by stress) just Not covered in this Video for some reason?.....
@@KirstiStephenson I'm so sorry for your loss, Kirsti, and for all that you had to go through. Just wanted you to know I said a prayer for you today and for your dad. I'm sure he's dealing with a lot too. Love to your family 🧡
Stress is the reason why I have seizures 😬. Never had seizures in my life till couple years ago and since then when I'm under a lot of stress my seizures comes in really bad. Luckily medical weed has been helping me with my seizure 👏🏾😁. Literally gave me my life back in full. Went from having them everyday to rarely having them and able to deal with stress much better.
@@garykeenan3724 i use to take Gabapentin, Vimpat, tegrotal and keepra at the same time. It wasnt stopping the seizures at all sadly 😞. Once i started medical marijuana i was able to get off all medications and only have to take it 😁.
@@PURDY_POISON nope but it wouldn't do anything for stress. Anxiety and stress are different. My seizures are pseudo-seizures which are influenced by a high amount of stress.
I'm a lawyer and I remember the first time a client lost his house (I did everything right, I wasn't afraid for myself). I felt falling, as in free fall, not without balance. I was also hearing a contractor talking about changes in my kitchen, and my brain basically didn't process language anymore, I couldn't understand what I was hearing. This lasted just a few seconds, but was a completely diferent experience to me. I've been scared before, like being robbed at gunpoint, and also felt grief losing relatives. That was diferent.
@@aleinad34 nope. I think it was some kind of shock state. It was always my boogeyman during law school and it happened to a relative, for kickers. In other similar situations I guess I already knew, not in theory but by first hand experience, this could actually happen.
“Learning about the human body.” Indeed. Thank you! 🙏 This skill is one of the best someone can learn, because knowing how your body works is the best way to get through the challenges of life.
After a long *stressful* week of preparing for a new job, this video is a perfect way to end the week on a good note. Understanding our natural stress response and what the brain & body does in response to stress ironically has helped me to work on ways to alleviate that stress. Mindfulness, meditation, & deep breathing exercises have helped me to calm down and relax. Also acknowledging that worrying about an issue or situation does nothing to improve the outcome, so you might as well put energy and thoughts into more positive outcomes!
All i can say is thank you. When you are going through something its good to know what it is and where it comes from. Its really difficult but everything helps. Thank you
The video reminds me that I worked on a graphic design project about the sound pollution. How it affects on people’s health. How it makes people so stressful.
I'm a dental surgeon and a lecturer,and find your explanations and lecture pretty remarkable.I learn a lot from your videos.Especially the way you deliver the speech with amazing English and great accent Bravo
What's lovely is that I've been watching your videos for some time now, and I feel like I have got to know and recognise the cadavers that you use for different lessons . What a beautiful way of living on
You are awesome. Your channel taught me so much. Effect of coffee on body, effect of sleep on body, effect of sugar on body, effect of exercise on body and now an important topic. You made a subtle statement of how stress evolved but there is lot of deep meaning to it. Thank you so much for your love for physiology, medicine and science.
As someone who had absolutely absurd amounts of stress at school, over long long periods of time, I developed a sort of mania. I couldn’t feel the stress as much, it was like I was out of my mind. I had disassociation before these almost every day, but when mania hit it was like I had absolutely no filter, everything moved so fast and I feel almost lightheaded or nearly high. I’ve never actually been high before but it was like a perceived high in a low or just a high point when I’m not happy. I could see what was happening but didn’t feel like I had full control of it and always had an extra low after those sporadic bouts of mania, and just felt bad
Seriously the amount of stress you endure throughout you life will determine if you get Alzheimer’s. You can develop it even in your 30s. Take care of yourselves
Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned. How does endurance training/exercise (triathlon) affect these systems over the long haul. Can training for a half or full Ironman cause adrenal, blood sugar handling, inflammatory issues? How do the stress systems cause cardiovascular issues, if at all? Just some ideas for future videos. Thanks.
Thanks for the video. Helps me understand my pituitary tumor (that i shrunk in last several years), how and why lifelong family stress affected my hypothalamus, adrenals, cortisol & thyroid.
Attention : if you have muscle weakness and you also happen to have stress, weight gain even when you literally don't even eat, high cpk but your doctors say that you have a cold for the past 20 years you have high cpk, change your doctor. You could be going through stress induced metabolic syndrome. Be careful especially if you have pcos but anticontraceptives didn't work, you might need metformin for metabolic syndrome and pcos. Doctors forget to check for that. You could be thinking this whole time you have arthritis or "weak metabolism" or even cfs when in reality you could be having stress induced metabolic syndrome and the more you let it untreated the higher the chance it becomes type 2 diabetes.
Hi guys! I don’t know all of your names since I’m kind of new here, but you make learning about the human body so much fun. I have already been diagnosed with generalized anxiety and I am on generic Zoloft. I have recently had a stressor introduced to my life. A couple of weeks ago when I took a trip to the dentist, I discovered I have an infected wisdom tooth. So then begins the wonderful journey of trying to find an oral surgeon that will take my insurance. Not fun, and very stressful. Because of my anxiety and the fact that I’m blind I’m also on a fixed income. Lovely. So I probably have a lot of cortisol and adrenaline and who knows what coursing through me right now. On a lighter note, thanks for your amazing work and content.
Some dentist pull teeth. My does. Asked my dentist why he does and he told me if a dentist doesn't pull teeth he's making to much money. Find a good dentist. I have to say I've never had a bad experience with my dentist. He even does sedation if you want to go that route. I never have myself. I don't even feel the numbing shots.
There should be a phone number for your insurance company that you can call and they will tell you the places that are in network near you. Some dentists will also let you do a payment plan
@@wyomingadventures wow! He must be very good then. My first introduction to the dentist was at the age of four when some lady took me and four other kids out of class, put us on a van and took us to a random dentist office. I was to go last because I guess the dentist and everybody else didn’t know how I was going to react because I’m totally blind. So I had to listen to all three of the other kids scream before me. My mom told me later in my life that she was confused about why I didn’t come home on the bus that day. When I did come home in the special-needs van, I was drunk as a skunk and they gave my mom all the medical paperwork and what not. So there you go. I did go to the dentist after that through my life, but it was stressful to me and my mom who mostly went with me. I didn’t go as often as I probably should have because it was not a very pleasant experience to relive. But I have hope for the people at Aspen dental. They seem very nice and they seem to be understanding of my dumb stress.
@@jogofish4231 thanks. I finally found one that would take my insurance. I don’t know if they do payment plans, but one step at a time. I’m just glad I found someone that would take me. I’m also a little more high risk because of where my wisdom teeth broke through. They are very close to the facial nerves on both sides of my upper jaw. Not fun.
@@crazyrobotlady3391 I totally understand having a bad dentist. That happened to my mother when she was a kid and now she has anxiety about going to any dentist. So sorry that has happened to you. It's not easy finding a dentist you can trust. My dentist use to live in my town now I drive to where he moved too. Good luck with your teeth.
LOL, this is a mouthful. This was the hardest IoHA video to follow I have watched.And I’ve watched a lot of them. I’m a subscriber and a fan. Thank you for your help in understanding Cortisol. I will have to watch this one over again to get all of the details straight in my head, but I took your stress reducing tip and left a message this time. Thank you for another great video!
Wow! I 💗 listening to you.... you make it simple enough for me to follow understand and make sense of the whole process... just found out what my problem has been for the last 50 years of my 62 year life span 🤔🤭👍🏼 Thank You
@@huntercurry8604 Yes on and off.... you sound like you surprised... and never had a days stress 🤷🏼♀️ I live in South Africa 🇿🇦 crime capital of the world murder, car high jacking, riots with mass looting not to mention floods.... yes it's a bit stressful 🤦🏼♀️
A new role in my employment, combined with school, makes for a very stressful time. Sleep disorders abound. Looking forward to finishing school in about a year. Until then, stress will be my norm.
I reckon the top 2 stressors, i.e. death of a loved one and romantic relationship woes (divorce etc), were also around for cave dwelling ancestors. Like having your parents die or your bond mate up and leave is probably not a new phenomenon. In fact I’m sure they stressed about why it wasn’t raining or why they couldn’t find a good heard to poach or where they would go now that their cave has been overrun by a competing group. We stress about trivial deadlines and they stressed about trivial tockoloshies / la chupacabras. They also had complex social dynamics and would fear being ostracised by the group
How does cortisol released in the body compare to cortisol cream? Also, what are some of the benefits to stress as it relates to anatomy and psychology/physiology?
Hydrocortisone cream mimics cortisol. Topically it acts as an anti-inflammatory for skin for certain conditions like eczema/dermatitis. The second question is a longer answer, but one example would be with short term stress, like exercise. The body will have amazing adaptations (increased strength, endurance, etc.), and in a way you can think that it will be able to handle that type of "exercise stress" even better with future bouts of exercise, but kind of like how we mentioned in the video, people can overdue it or overtrain in exercise.
I didn't know about the cortisol mimic part, but I did know about stress and over-training in exercise. With training martial arts I've noticed a better resilience to other stresses through regular exposure to stress. I wasn't sure how that is explained anatomically
This is a very important video for me, as I am taking corticosteroid for allergies. I am now understanding the tradeoff I am making. There is only one way that I need to take care of allergies for long term health.
Turns out my body has been running high on stress hormones my entire life and most of my body adjusted. Blood pressure was fine, glucose fine, etc etc, but my heart rate was slightly elevated, I always felt "jittery", constantly sweating, and everything was a dichotomy to me. I either loved it or hated it (aka fight or flight). Some life events had my Dr having me try betablockers and it was like a world of difference. I suddenly felt so calm and many of my life-long sensitivities went away. It's like I see the world differently. It's no longer things I hate or love, but a wide range of things in-between. Turns out beta-blockers have an off-label use for anxiety. It helps calm the fight-or-flight response. It's off-label because they're "meant" to be used to calm the heart. Which was part of my Dr's reason. I have a really healthy heart, but I had an issue of elevated heart rate for the rest of the day after exercise. If I relaxed all day, my resting heart rate was in the 50s/60s. But if I did almost anything other than relaxing, my resting heart rate was in the 80s/90s and if I exercised, the 100s. My Dr figured with such a healthy heart that the issue wasn't physical, but hormonal. Ironically, some of my other life long issues like getting head-rushes also mostly went away. Funny how lowing my heart rate and blood pressure nearly eliminated getting dizzy when I got up.
as far as frolicking ... if one smiles even when they do not really feel like it ... their body shall de-stress ... so pause... smile ... keep smiling :) ... ... destress :))) --- also, pioneer scientist of Montréal on stress was Hans Selye (endocrinologist / Prague then McGill) Océane
I've been getting grey hair since i was 12 years old. I am 28 now and almost fully grey. My father and my mother barely have grey hair so it doesn't seem genetic, grandparents included. I take vitamin supplements. Do you think it is from stress? I've always been a very nervous person and i was born 3 weeks too early
My aunt's hair was snow white by the time she was in her early or mid 20s. Mom was coloring her hair by her mid 30s. I didn't really get a lot of gray until late 50s.
Well when I stress out because of losing a job, moving to another country, finding a new job, looking for a place to live, I just remember that there are plenty of other, much more stressful things. Kinda helps not to lose it all 😃
I'm crying as I watch this. I am SOOOOOOOO stressed. Going through a lot on that list of major stressors. I have what I believe is full body hives. Doctors can't help. So I am suffering so bad. Feel like I have a bad sunburn along with a lot of itching.
Severe itch, burning sensation on skin, headaches might be symptoms of psoriasis, please check up with your doctor. This is one of many diseases caused by stress. Hope you'll be okay!
Thank you mate. I have struggled with PTSD for a long time and you are the only one who has gone into the details of what excatly is happening to my body. If you had of just said.... (insert short layman version here) I wouldn't have those very important details and my new understanding. Your humor and advice is also appreciated. You earned my like and sub but to be honest your shameless plug would have worked by itself it was that good.
Very good video! I experienced the right amount of stress today for a necessary event. I broke up a fight outside of Walmart. Both guys grappling on the ground and one of them pulled a gun and put in the face of the other guy after I had separated them. He was going to shoot him. I talked him down and convinced them to just leave… afterwards, with the amount of adrenaline induced, I could feel the shaking in my arms and legs as the energy winded down. I’m just happy no one got hurt… or arrested cuz then I would have to deal with a subpoena and all that who has time for that? Talk about stress! 😂
don't try to break a fight bro. it would be pretty f'ed up if you got shot for no fkin reason. i know i wouldn't. especially if a gun is involved. like i know people who got killed just for trying to break a fight.
Most common stresses: -Major Injury -Changing Job -Moving -Getting Married Me: who broke my leg a week after getting married and had to move and start Grad school all at the same time… “Oh. No Wonder I got actual depression that year…” like it was BAD!!! I couldn’t function AT ALL!! Luckily I made it through that phase and am mostly in a better place mentally and working on getting to a better place physically. But that really had some lasting effects… I think prolonged stress all my life due to some trauma and anxiety/panic disorders probably contributed a lot to the physical health situation I have. I gained a lot of weight in a short time no matter what I ate and had really bad insulin insensitivity so my body was basically borderline diabetic, and a lot of my hormones were out of whack to the point of being dangerous. Luckily I’m working with an awesome doc to fix that situation and I’ve made good progress. But with the effects of prolonged stress described, I’d be surprised if that wasn’t a major contributing factor.
When you young you dream and, when you get old you have nightmares. I never understood that saying until I started getting older. Would have been great to stay young and stress free:)
Engaging my motor cortex in the frontal lobe of my brain so it can send a signal down to my forearm and hand muscles so that I can click the like button for another great video from you guys! Thank you!
I’m so grateful to have found this video. It’s nice to see someone explain it in a way that people can understand. I’ve been in medicine for 25 years and I know that chronic stress can do a lot of damage, but until it happened to me personally I didn’t think much of it. After being in an emotionally abusive relationship and leaving, I found out just how much damage it can do. I began to have extreme fatigue, weakness, brain fog, myalgias and more. When I first presented with symptoms I was told it sounded like long covid, but I have never had covid. My labs revealed a positive ANA, elevated titer, elevated WBC, elevated lipids and a lot of others abnormal. I’ve seen rheumatology, endocrinology, cardiology and immunology. I was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome, a parathyroid adenoma and thyroid nodules. No autoimmune disorder was diagnosed, but I still have a positive ANA and elevated WBC. Chronic inflammation due to stress is all they can come up with. I lost 50 pounds. I couldn’t eat or drink and now my eGFR went from 81 to 57! I sought therapy and tried medication, but no meds worked. I went from being extremely healthy. I was a runner and felt great everyday and now I struggle to get through my day somedays. I’m slowly getting myself back, but it’s been a long process. I share this so that maybe it will help someone else who is under chronic stress. Do whatever you can to relieve the stress. I promise you the stress isn’t worth the problems it causes and the reality is most of what we stress about isn’t anything we can control anyway. Take care of yourselves, my friends. You’ll be thankful you did.
Well put. I’ve been suffering from debilitating anxiety leading to GI distress for going on 20 years now with no relief, and it has/is destroying my life. The amount of catastrophic shifts that have occurred psychologically and physiologically have been crushing. I was a very active athlete and weight lifter and had a bright future. I am now a shell of a man that I used to be and suffer profoundly with basic day to day tasks. My whole existence is symptom management. I am incapable of experiencing any other mental or physical processes due to my over abundance of stress. I’ve been to a plethora of medical practitioners including the coveted Mayo in Rochester and not a single lab, work-up, invasive examination or psychological review has resulted in any “notable” abnormalities, so I’ve been “diagnosed” with IBS, anxiety, and central sensitization. I’ve been through a rainbow of meds and sadly the only thing that has any favorable impact is clonazepam. Because of the abusive nature of this controlled substance by addicts and others, the medical community is scared to continue this methodology of mono therapy with benzo’s , so they try to force you on other meds or adjuncts. All of which have been a complete nightmare for me. Thanks for your story. Sadly but great-fully it’s reassuring to see my suffering isn’t segregated. Hope is powerful.
@@TurboGuy979 They forced me off of my benzos when I switched insurance (medicaid to private because I was making more money). It's been over a year and I still rarely sleep without help from Old Grandad or Jack Daniel's. I'm diagnosed PTSD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder and agoraphobia. NO DOCTOR CARES, they won't prescribe anything that works, so I take nothing. Sucks.
I would be curious about that as well. For the past year or so I would also always get feverish from stress. Although technically only my head gets warmer. General body temperature stays the same
I was surprised that stress reduces inflammation, I have crohn's disease and it was initially triggered during a stressful time of my life, and my gut cramps/has more bowel movements when I'm stressed.
Im in the early 30s, few months ago I started to develop little pimples like chickenpox, mostly on my ribs and the bones on the front of my hips. Then it turns in big sores that was hurting like burns. My doctor told me it was Zona, but seemed to be a bit surprised because its usually older people who are suffering from this. The first thing she asked was: "Do you had a lot of stress recently?" (No need to say the answer was HELL YES). The sores stayed for maybe a month, then it slowly disappeared. Weird.
That’s how mine started but my history of trauma is so vast from childhood and into now. It gets better as you practice good self care. And stay away from narcissist.
It sounds like you had shingles. Aka herpes zoster. I had it in my mid 20s from stress, again late 2022, at age 64, after a highly stressful period. We have this virus hidden in our bodies after chickenpox infection and it can reactivate and cause that painful blistering rash when our immune system is compromised.
How bad is stress?
I'm 43 and had 3 strokes one of which was massive and paralyzed half my body. I refused to listen to everyone including my doctors who tried to warn me I was completely, totally, utterly over stressing myself.
I thought succubing to stress was for the weak and I just needed to move on as I'm from a military family and stress never killed anyone but inaction did. I was completely wrong and I live every single nanosecond wishing I could go back and some sense into my kick my own ass.
Now my family has more to worry and stress about taking care of me because I cannot take care of myself.
Never try to shoulder all the burden yourself. Sometimes you do literally need to deplug and disconnect from everything to stay alive and healthy. This is not a weakness, it's a primal survival message from our body.
Thank you for sharing your story ❤
I also think it's important to remember that you don't have to have a family, bills, debt and a shitty job to be stressed out. Stress impacts everybody differently but your body only knows if you are stressed. It doesn't care what is making you stressed.
Can you do a video on "How depression and stress affects the brain?" Do brain cells really die with because of prolonged stress? And what damages it does emotionally and physically?
Any mental illness effects ur physical health doesn’t matter and also the reverse u have to take care of both sides
Cells are supposed to die, whether you take stress or not, however prolonged amount of stress could over stimulate your amygdala, which is responsible for fear, and eventually cause Alzheimer's, but even that is not possible if you're in a young age
I'd say the problem about mental illnesses is that the brain links in ways that are harmful to you.
so there are physiological changes in your brain.
the hard job is to reverse those connections and make new healthy connections which takes alot of therapy 😅
Could you talk about what happens to a woman’s body after she has a baby? Like how long it takes for your body to go back to normal? It would be cool to see over time what your body goes through over time after a baby
Second! Postpartum stress would be so interesting to learn about! Maybe it would be an example of an emotional stressor with a similar duration to the emotional stressors we feel today but was experienced by the ancestral people mentioned in this video.
I would love to see this too
I AM INTERESTED ALSO
Back to normal, ha, you're so funny 🤣There's no such thing but a video on it would be really cool.
Ein Baby kommt 9 Monate und geht 9 Monate
I love the emphasis on how seeing a “GOOD” therapist can help with stress. Seeing a bad therapist would most likely have the opposite effect on your mental health
Sadly, it can take months to figure out which kind you’ve got.
When I was 23 I scored 8 out of the top ten stressors. Taken aback at my answer to "where does the shoe pinch" , my new Shrink asked if he could make me a case study, and months later told me he didnt know how id survived. ( stressors included moms death, divorce, moving, death of a child, job loss, a life threatening illness, possible 30 year incarceration etc etc. All in a 9 month period. 50 years on my being terminally ill doesn't even faze me. With the right tools, and a great shrink, mines named was Dr. Head (oh the irony) , you can survive anything
Wow! You've been through a lot! Glad to see that you can still have a positive outlook!
Jesus how are you alive
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Do you feel like you're better at dealing with stressful situations than the average person?
Man what a crazy situation! Glad you made it through!
As someone who has lived with General anxiety and panic attacks, thank you so much for going over this. Almost every medical issue I had was eventually traced back to stress and anxiety which had been left unaddressed for years. Informing everyone helps them advocate for the help they need, since some might not put all the different effects together.
Also another person who struggles with generalized anxiety. You're dot alone
20 years of agoraphobia here. I’m at the end of my teather .
@@cosmicnights How has covid and the additional worries from that affected it? If being in a situation that is normally already a problem I would expect heaping more concerns and rules to follow on top of it (especially early on with less being known and no vaccines available) being very unhelpful.
Knowing how much a person I know with claustrophobia dreads small spaces without windows and especially elevators I can't even imagine what it must be like trying to function with something like that. At least elevators if they are truly needed won't take very long and usually there are stairs as an alternative, with agoraphobia it's practically impossible to "just avoid open spaces" assuming that's the trigger while still doing normal things most people want to do. Seems like it could quickly lead to a tendency to isolate yourself and not go to many places.
Same. Fatigue is killing me
I also have anxiety and depression and therapy nor medication has done anything to make me feel like what I imagine should be normal. Has any of this worked for you? Therapy seems like total BS, one expensive step above calling a friend.
My family and I are healing from intense stress after coming out of domestic abuse. It is a long journey; but I am glad we’re on it.
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Could you do a similar video but this time related to grief?
Thank you so much for all the content you create 🙌🏼
I would love to see a video on grief.I believe I started losing my hair due to grief.
You're a smart guy. Anyone who can speak in uninterrupted/ unbroken sentences, is firing on all cylinders.
That's a gift not many possess. I subscribed
I just had to have an MRI on my brain because all my stress.😩 . Memory loss, auto immune disorder, speech issues. Crazy how stress can cause these things.
Hope your ok!
@@WinterBean. thank you💜
Can the effects be reversed?
@@LeeLiko I’m not entirely sure.. I hope so.🥺
What did the MRI results say? By any prospects, are you more prone to MS? I might be sharing a similar journey.
Stress caused me to go into burn-out. Never actually recovered from it. My memory is not that great anymore and I am in my 30s. I have a concentration span of that from a young child. I had bad skin, always suffered from break outs. I lost a lot of my hair. I used to have long, luscious hair. And don't get me started on all the permenant body aches I have today.
You ok now ..?
Seems like u r describing my life
I went through something very similar and I can only say that it takes time and consistent effort into prioritizing sleep, nutrition, exercise, and stress management to get back to normality.
It absolutely sucks and you feel miserable until you start seeing the changes compound enough to be noticeable, but it's not a lost cause. Trust yourself.
Get your GP to order the usual blood panels and also tests for excess inflammation. I started hurting all over and lost my appetite and had dramatic weight loss, all after a string of stressful events, and it turned out I had an autoimmune condition that fortunately was treatable.
Maybe you just have adhd
I really believe that chronic stress can be mentally (obviously) damaging but also physiologically damaging . I was trying to finish my degree(in Psychology!!) and now recognise that I was suffering chronic, severe stress( which used to be known as suffering a”nervous breakdown “)After weeks of early morning vomiting,everyday, I managed to talk a doctor into prescribing benzodiazepines for the last couple of months before I graduated. It would have been far better for me to speak to a therapist, which years later I did.
Unfortunately I was diagnosed with MS five years after years of chronic stress, and although I am aware that there are many factors which are probably responsible for the disease, however I am amazed at the high number of people with MS who report a long period or even lifetime chronic stress which occurred 5 or more years before their first noticeable symptoms of the disease.
Chronic stress is a killer but it can also result in chronic disease , so please don’t be like me all those years ago and seek help early when stress becomes chronic or overwhelming!
Thank you for your comment and sorry to hear about everything you've gone through!❤️
Disagree with some of this...I believe MS and other neurological diseases come about in 20's, or right about the time when responsibility gets dumped on us. They is no causation. I have bipolar (neurological disease) and I don't believe it was caused by stress. But I do need to reduce stress in my life to manage it
What does MS mean?
@@ElMitones it is Multiple sclerosis a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system
@@WalterWhite-pr1qs if you’re disagreeing with my comments/story regarding my diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis as being perhaps a result of chronic stress, I agree with you to a point.For a start I WAS in my early twenties when MS symptoms appeared & were diagnosed.However, despite the large amount of scientific evidence which demonstrates that chronic stress interferes with the immune system, I did not intend to suggest that stress causes MS-that would suggest causation and as any neurological researcher would tell you, the causes of MS are still unknown.Thus there are treatments but no cure. I was merely commenting on the correlation between chronic stress and physical disease in the medical literature and in my experience of meeting others diagnosed with autoimmune disorders .
I hope that this comment has clarified my prior remarks.
Learning can be fun! Many years ago when I was taking prerequisites for nursing school, this stuff was difficult to learn. You tie it together quite nicely. Thanks! (maybe it’s easier to learn now because I’m not stressed about it)
I have ulcerative colitis and was diagnosed with PTSD shortly after my weight and health began to stabilize. It’s really interesting seeing the connection between my emotions and my immune response. My nervous system was really impacted too (tremors, weak voice) but now that I’m nourished and away from stress my body is getting back to normal again. A ton of the symptoms I thought were because of my UC were actually due to the stress response, like weak muscles and trembling. I mean it kind of sucks but it gave me a deeper appreciation of how complex the human body is.
i love how after explaining something in detail you then simplify it.
I have a dose of positivity for you. In my small hometown when I go shopping I hide random stickers around the store for people to find. So far from what I've heard people think it's funny and are trying to find out who keeps leaving Dr Phil ranch stickers next to the dressings.
I came here because I have anxiety disorder, and tend to stress more than I need to. Thanks for the wonderful video.
After my wife passed away I was warned not to make any big life-changing decisions for four months afterwards. I broke that rule when I decided to retire two months after my wife died. Shortly after I retired my _mom_ passed away; and in between I lost three of my wife's siblings, with whom I was close for years. The impact it's had on my body after watching this video was predictable; my blood pressure has shot up and still not 100% under control, I've gained about 20 lbs, all in my belly, and the alarm at all these deleterious impacts has heightened my stressors. Oh well....lesson learned. Now, to fix it....
Wow that's a lot!! Hopefully you have found peace amidst all these turmoil. My condolences.
my condolences, i wish you all the strength and luck you need.
So sorry for your loss. Find reasons to laugh, it helped me. But foremost, trust in Jesus.
That's a ton of stress. I've had a similar string of stressful events, it has an impact on your health.
Thank you! I’m the poster child for unnecessary stress, so it’s good to know what’s going on elsewhere in my body. 🤦🏻♀
don't be stressed 🤓👍
@@GoblinAshe 😀
lol same...
Breathe, slowly in and out through the nose.
@@GoblinAshe Thanks I’m cured.
I'm so glad you guys have expanded to touch these types of topics. My stress is reduced when I learn the ins and outs of the system that's being affected. Thank you so much.
Jonathan you love what you do and it shows in the “details” thank you.
Thank you so much for discussing the issues with chronic stress! Unfortunately, I dealt with it for about a year and a half due to issues at work. I was tense 24/7 & was not my normal self. I was on anxiety meds, but they weren't helping much because I couldn't get out of the situation. I had problems losing weight & just kept putting on the extra pounds. Things did come to an end when I was let go. At first, I hated this reality but soon realized that it was for the best. Even though I'm currently looking for a new job, I feel less tense than I have been during the 18 months of my poor work environment. I know things will work out, & that I'll land a job when the time is right. Until then, I'm trying to live a relatively stress-free life.
Perfect video thank you so much! I just needed this right now as im a therapist and there’s so much to learn about the mind and body and how they work together. Please do make more videos about psychology as well it will be very helpful. ❤️
It’s very true. Reading about human body is stress relieving.
This goes hand in hand with what I've been learning about health problems in the fire service. Cancer is #1 but a hefty, regular dose of cortisol probably plays a role in all of their other health problems
This is packed with great information! I never knew just how much was involved in stress reactions. I love your channel and keep up the good work, it's very much appreciated 👍
No broken records here; your vids rock! And you're always very compassionate in your rhetoric, cheers!👌🏽.
This was a great video thank you! I have complex regional pain syndrome for 7+ years. I can totally relate with everything you're saying mentally and physically. I now have it full body with some organs being affected. I hope and pray that they will find a cure for this because it is so difficult to live day by day. Once again thank you, from Tennessee🙏💚
Hi Jennaleigh,
Seeing your comment is like being on another planet and finally seeing another person lol. I also have CRPS!
My name is Joel and I’m from Stockton (unfortunately not in California) but the North-east of England.
I’m so sorry you have to go through this horrible condition but though I don’t know you, I can relate. I don’t have it in my left leg, I had an amputation in 2019 after I was hit by a van whilst riding my motorbike in 2015. I couldn’t walk or stand and was eventually diagnosed with CRPS. Since my amputation I have climbed Ben Nevis (highest mountain in Britain) and just this week bought my dream motorbike. I can’t do a lot due to this constant pain with CRPS and amputee issues but I don’t have to live like someone with constant pain and one leg and most importantly if I can do something anyone can.
After living with this for seven years this November (CRPS awareness month as you’ll already know)
I can finally discuss things more openly due to the complications of legal reasons but though there is no cure currently I will try and do something to help others with this as I know I taken a risk with an amputation and there are people worse off than myself with this. Even still after seven years nearly I have family and close friends who still don’t have a clue about what I go through on a daily basis and how it effects my life and many others around the world. I promise I will do my best to spread awareness and make the world a better place: it may be impossible, but impossible isn’t enough of a reason not to try Jennaleigh.
People say life’s a beach… when life throws a wave and knocks over your sand castle, build another. If that one gets knocked over, build another. Never give up, you will come back bigger and stronger! 💪🏻
Much love and hope 🧡
@@Out_on_a_limb Hello 👋 Your message is so incredibly sweet. I love your story. It's so inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with me. I really think you should write a book, or film some of your journeys as you climb or ride! I followed your UA-cam channel just in case you decide to share any videos. I'm sure that others out there would love to hear and see your story as well. It's been a blessing to meet you. Thank you for your kind words. Love, light and many blessings from Tennessee.💚🕯🙏
Your Videos are just perfect. I find it to be a good balance of anatomy, pathology/ physiology. And it‘s easy to follow along even if you don‘t have a lot of knowledge about a topic
This vedio is damn helpful for students preparing for entrance exams 😊 we need to know the consequences of having stress, n u guys are doing excellent job in creating awareness about this issues about which people rarely talk about
Glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching!
@@theanatomylab I recently lost my Mum (late November on her B-Day 2021) to the Horrific "Side Effects" of Dementia/Alzeimeirs after leaving my Career and Personal Relationships to move back closer to my Parents to help my Dad Care for her for the last five years. Thank God she Never "Forgot Us", but her Physical, Mental and Verbal Decline was So Traumatizing, I'm Not sure if We'll Ever Recover....As a Result, I started, and Continue to suffer from things like; Fits of Crying, Appetite Loss, Social Isolation Depression etc. In May 2022 I woke up with Sudden, Unbelievable Stomach Pain....I didn't want to see another inside of a Hospital so I thought I would just "Tough It Out" Whatever was Happening.....My Dad saw me Hours later doubled over in Pain and He called an Ambulance...Turns Out, I was Critcally ill and Didn't know it! Apparently, over this Stressful Time, I had Developed 2 large ulcers in my stomach which ended up eating a hole in the stomach lining. So my stomach was perforated, and the Toxic, Acidic, Stomach Bile was rapidly entering the intestinal system, abdominal cavity, and surrounding Organs, Tissue etc. Causing Damage and that's the pain I was feeling. Particularly when I laid on my back it was unbearable As that's where the hole was at the top of my stomach and lying backwards would just empty out the bile faster into my Abdominal cavity which also caused a massive infection called H-Pylori. They literally told me in the ER if I had come in 24 hours later I would've been dead. The ulcers were caused by the stress I was dealing with I know alot of ulcers are caused by medications or other issues but all that was ruled out and given what I had been dealing with that was the obvious answer. I ended up having to have emergency surgery that night and was in the hospital for 3 weeks afterwards having the bile removed through tubes in my nose and the surgery patched the hole in my stomach, but I couldn't eat for 2 weeks because they had to remove all the bile and make sure the patch stuck. So they tried to insert what they call a PIC line into my arm to try and get my Body some direct nutrition as I was rapidly losing alot of weight I'm very tall and a healthy weight for me is approximately 150 to 170 pounds I went down to a 100 pounds in the hospital and I've been out of the hospital for Like a month now and I have gained some weight back I'm up to 130, but I still have issues with eating food and digesting and they say my Systwm may take a whole year to feel better and recover. Can you help me understand if the initial Catharsis of this issue came from hormones due to Stress released in the brain that affected my gastrointestinal trac Per your video? If Not, where did it Originate from? My apologies for the long message!
Thanks Kindly, @ladyk_love
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@@KirstiStephenson I will type up the Google response to my question for you "How does stress affect stomach acid secretions."
"The stress response of the body results in the decrease of gastric renewal, leading to atrophy of the gastric mucosa. Blood flow to the stomach decreases and makes the stomach more prone to acid-pepsin ulceration and hyperacid secretion"
Hope this is helpful, meaning less gastric mucosa which lowers the pH of the acid and helps clean the stomach. The higher acidity will cause perforation and could be fatal in a short time.
@@emanuelmifsud6754 Thanks for your response Emanuel, much appreciated. I have spoken to My Surgeon and done alot of Research online including Basic searches about this Myself. I posed the Question because the Video was almost exclusively focused on the Stress Response on the Body starting Via Hormones etc being released in the Brain... So I was Curious to see if in fact their wad some sort of "Prequel" to My Condition Originating in the Brain and then as a result playing a part in the Stomach Perforation and Infection?
Or was one of the #1 cases of ER visits in North America (stomach perforation caused by stress) just Not covered in this Video for some reason?.....
@@KirstiStephenson I'm so sorry for your loss, Kirsti, and for all that you had to go through. Just wanted you to know I said a prayer for you today and for your dad. I'm sure he's dealing with a lot too. Love to your family 🧡
Stress is the reason why I have seizures 😬. Never had seizures in my life till couple years ago and since then when I'm under a lot of stress my seizures comes in really bad. Luckily medical weed has been helping me with my seizure 👏🏾😁. Literally gave me my life back in full. Went from having them everyday to rarely having them and able to deal with stress much better.
@@garykeenan3724 i use to take Gabapentin, Vimpat, tegrotal and keepra at the same time. It wasnt stopping the seizures at all sadly 😞. Once i started medical marijuana i was able to get off all medications and only have to take it 😁.
My God, I could really use it.
@@A_Meatball have you tried Klonopin? It is a benzo used for anxiety. But is also a seizure medicine.
@@PURDY_POISON nope but it wouldn't do anything for stress. Anxiety and stress are different. My seizures are pseudo-seizures which are influenced by a high amount of stress.
I have stress triggered seizures. (Other things trigger my seizures too) it sucks. Life is so stressful.
I just love him. I watch the videos uptill last just because of him
I'm a lawyer and I remember the first time a client lost his house (I did everything right, I wasn't afraid for myself). I felt falling, as in free fall, not without balance. I was also hearing a contractor talking about changes in my kitchen, and my brain basically didn't process language anymore, I couldn't understand what I was hearing. This lasted just a few seconds, but was a completely diferent experience to me. I've been scared before, like being robbed at gunpoint, and also felt grief losing relatives. That was diferent.
:0 that's so fascinating. have you ever experienced it again after that?
@@aleinad34 nope. I think it was some kind of shock state. It was always my boogeyman during law school and it happened to a relative, for kickers. In other similar situations I guess I already knew, not in theory but by first hand experience, this could actually happen.
@@Tentacl ahh i see :0 thanks for the response!
@@aleinad34 :0
@@philawsonfur :0 ?
“Learning about the human body.” Indeed. Thank you! 🙏 This skill is one of the best someone can learn, because knowing how your body works is the best way to get through the challenges of life.
After a long *stressful* week of preparing for a new job, this video is a perfect way to end the week on a good note.
Understanding our natural stress response and what the brain & body does in response to stress ironically has helped me to work on ways to alleviate that stress.
Mindfulness, meditation, & deep breathing exercises have helped me to calm down and relax. Also acknowledging that worrying about an issue or situation does nothing to improve the outcome, so you might as well put energy and thoughts into more positive outcomes!
All i can say is thank you. When you are going through something its good to know what it is and where it comes from. Its really difficult but everything helps. Thank you
You have convinced me! Let's frolic and find out what stress does on our magnesium levels in our bodies. Thanks!
The way you explain is remarkable you are very engaging and informative. Thank you! Learning is fun with you
The video reminds me that I worked on a graphic design project about the sound pollution. How it affects on people’s health. How it makes people so stressful.
I'm a dental surgeon and a lecturer,and find your explanations and lecture pretty remarkable.I learn a lot from your videos.Especially the way you deliver the speech with amazing English and great accent Bravo
I have crazy panic and anxiety attacks almost everyday , jus wanna say I’m still fighting and kickin ❤
Such is the life of a regular Joe
You keep kicking joe multiple people are struggling too you got this
What's lovely is that I've been watching your videos for some time now, and I feel like I have got to know and recognise the cadavers that you use for different lessons . What a beautiful way of living on
You are hilarious! Fun to watch and incredibly informative! Thanks
My positive like!!! My cortisol levels skyrocket some days working as a nurse. Especially when I am overwhelmed.
loving your channel and lowering my stress level :)
someone in my life be stressing me constantly. I be feeling so lost in my mind that i don’t think about anything at all
Pre and post pregnancy! It would definitely be a necessary and helpful informative topic for our fight. Please and thank you!
You are awesome. Your channel taught me so much. Effect of coffee on body, effect of sleep on body, effect of sugar on body, effect of exercise on body and now an important topic. You made a subtle statement of how stress evolved but there is lot of deep meaning to it. Thank you so much for your love for physiology, medicine and science.
I need to reduce stress so here I go: Thank you IHA!! Fascinating as always!!
Thank you so much for your videos. The joy of learning something first thing in the morning is such a stress inhibitor. Keep the videos coming.
Just make deep breathing a habit
It'll just take a few days and then you won't even need to remind yourself to breath deeply
The effect is great.. ❤️
I really owe you a lot for all these factual information about our body we live 24*7 with. Thank you very much! Love from India ❤️
As someone who had absolutely absurd amounts of stress at school, over long long periods of time, I developed a sort of mania. I couldn’t feel the stress as much, it was like I was out of my mind. I had disassociation before these almost every day, but when mania hit it was like I had absolutely no filter, everything moved so fast and I feel almost lightheaded or nearly high. I’ve never actually been high before but it was like a perceived high in a low or just a high point when I’m not happy. I could see what was happening but didn’t feel like I had full control of it and always had an extra low after those sporadic bouts of mania, and just felt bad
What you are describing sounds a lot like very normal burn out and fatigue. No need to catastrophize; school can just be hard.
I recently found out that school definitely gave me ptsd.
it's crazy what amounts of stress society puts on children 😐
@@CristalianaIvor you have PTSD from school 🤨 seriously?
Always a clear explanation
Thank you
Seriously the amount of stress you endure throughout you life will determine if you get Alzheimer’s. You can develop it even in your 30s. Take care of yourselves
I want to have a video made in memory of my aunt. She medically just died of ALS.
Thank you for these videos guys.
Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned. How does endurance training/exercise (triathlon) affect these systems over the long haul. Can training for a half or full Ironman cause adrenal, blood sugar handling, inflammatory issues? How do the stress systems cause cardiovascular issues, if at all? Just some ideas for future videos. Thanks.
Excellent book on the mind-body connection is When the Body Says No, by Gabor Maté. Have recommended it to many clients over the years.
Another top notch video! Thank you.
Thanks for the video. Helps me understand my pituitary tumor (that i shrunk in last several years), how and why lifelong family stress affected my hypothalamus, adrenals, cortisol & thyroid.
Attention : if you have muscle weakness and you also happen to have stress, weight gain even when you literally don't even eat, high cpk but your doctors say that you have a cold for the past 20 years you have high cpk, change your doctor. You could be going through stress induced metabolic syndrome. Be careful especially if you have pcos but anticontraceptives didn't work, you might need metformin for metabolic syndrome and pcos. Doctors forget to check for that. You could be thinking this whole time you have arthritis or "weak metabolism" or even cfs when in reality you could be having stress induced metabolic syndrome and the more you let it untreated the higher the chance it becomes type 2 diabetes.
Lovely videos. Love your videos and immaculate ideas for those🤩
Hi guys! I don’t know all of your names since I’m kind of new here, but you make learning about the human body so much fun. I have already been diagnosed with generalized anxiety and I am on generic Zoloft. I have recently had a stressor introduced to my life. A couple of weeks ago when I took a trip to the dentist, I discovered I have an infected wisdom tooth. So then begins the wonderful journey of trying to find an oral surgeon that will take my insurance. Not fun, and very stressful. Because of my anxiety and the fact that I’m blind I’m also on a fixed income. Lovely. So I probably have a lot of cortisol and adrenaline and who knows what coursing through me right now. On a lighter note, thanks for your amazing work and content.
Some dentist pull teeth. My does. Asked my dentist why he does and he told me if a dentist doesn't pull teeth he's making to much money. Find a good dentist. I have to say I've never had a bad experience with my dentist. He even does sedation if you want to go that route. I never have myself. I don't even feel the numbing shots.
There should be a phone number for your insurance company that you can call and they will tell you the places that are in network near you. Some dentists will also let you do a payment plan
@@wyomingadventures wow! He must be very good then. My first introduction to the dentist was at the age of four when some lady took me and four other kids out of class, put us on a van and took us to a random dentist office. I was to go last because I guess the dentist and everybody else didn’t know how I was going to react because I’m totally blind. So I had to listen to all three of the other kids scream before me.
My mom told me later in my life that she was confused about why I didn’t come home on the bus that day. When I did come home in the special-needs van, I was drunk as a skunk and they gave my mom all the medical paperwork and what not. So there you go. I did go to the dentist after that through my life, but it was stressful to me and my mom who mostly went with me. I didn’t go as often as I probably should have because it was not a very pleasant experience to relive. But I have hope for the people at Aspen dental. They seem very nice and they seem to be understanding of my dumb stress.
@@jogofish4231 thanks. I finally found one that would take my insurance. I don’t know if they do payment plans, but one step at a time. I’m just glad I found someone that would take me. I’m also a little more high risk because of where my wisdom teeth broke through. They are very close to the facial nerves on both sides of my upper jaw. Not fun.
@@crazyrobotlady3391 I totally understand having a bad dentist. That happened to my mother when she was a kid and now she has anxiety about going to any dentist. So sorry that has happened to you. It's not easy finding a dentist you can trust. My dentist use to live in my town now I drive to where he moved too. Good luck with your teeth.
LOL, this is a mouthful. This was the hardest IoHA video to follow I have watched.And I’ve watched a lot of them. I’m a subscriber and a fan. Thank you for your help in understanding Cortisol. I will have to watch this one over again to get all of the details straight in my head, but I took your stress reducing tip and left a message this time. Thank you for another great video!
Wow! I 💗 listening to you.... you make it simple enough for me to follow understand and make sense of the whole process... just found out what my problem has been for the last 50 years of my 62 year life span 🤔🤭👍🏼 Thank You
A 50 year ongoing stress response, gosh. Best of luck, you deserve it!
@@huntercurry8604 Yes on and off.... you sound like you surprised... and never had a days stress 🤷🏼♀️ I live in South Africa 🇿🇦 crime capital of the world murder, car high jacking, riots with mass looting not to mention floods.... yes it's a bit stressful 🤦🏼♀️
A new role in my employment, combined with school, makes for a very stressful time. Sleep disorders abound. Looking forward to finishing school in about a year. Until then, stress will be my norm.
Good video, learned new things today😁👍🏼
My favorite channel on UA-cam by far thank you for keeping my stress hormones in check 😊
can you do a video on mediation and what it does to the nervous system?
Yes, details are cool.
I loved this !!
I don't see any place to go for a daily giveaway
I reckon the top 2 stressors, i.e. death of a loved one and romantic relationship woes (divorce etc), were also around for cave dwelling ancestors. Like having your parents die or your bond mate up and leave is probably not a new phenomenon. In fact I’m sure they stressed about why it wasn’t raining or why they couldn’t find a good heard to poach or where they would go now that their cave has been overrun by a competing group. We stress about trivial deadlines and they stressed about trivial tockoloshies / la chupacabras. They also had complex social dynamics and would fear being ostracised by the group
Great video. I always enjoy watching this channel. I have learned so much.
How does cortisol released in the body compare to cortisol cream?
Also, what are some of the benefits to stress as it relates to anatomy and psychology/physiology?
Hydrocortisone cream mimics cortisol. Topically it acts as an anti-inflammatory for skin for certain conditions like eczema/dermatitis.
The second question is a longer answer, but one example would be with short term stress, like exercise. The body will have amazing adaptations (increased strength, endurance, etc.), and in a way you can think that it will be able to handle that type of "exercise stress" even better with future bouts of exercise, but kind of like how we mentioned in the video, people can overdue it or overtrain in exercise.
I didn't know about the cortisol mimic part, but I did know about stress and over-training in exercise. With training martial arts I've noticed a better resilience to other stresses through regular exposure to stress. I wasn't sure how that is explained anatomically
This is a very important video for me, as I am taking corticosteroid for allergies. I am now understanding the tradeoff I am making. There is only one way that I need to take care of allergies for long term health.
Seeing Geoffrey removes my stress. 😊
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Behave yourself xx 😄 🤣
Same for me❣
Turns out my body has been running high on stress hormones my entire life and most of my body adjusted. Blood pressure was fine, glucose fine, etc etc, but my heart rate was slightly elevated, I always felt "jittery", constantly sweating, and everything was a dichotomy to me. I either loved it or hated it (aka fight or flight). Some life events had my Dr having me try betablockers and it was like a world of difference. I suddenly felt so calm and many of my life-long sensitivities went away. It's like I see the world differently. It's no longer things I hate or love, but a wide range of things in-between.
Turns out beta-blockers have an off-label use for anxiety. It helps calm the fight-or-flight response. It's off-label because they're "meant" to be used to calm the heart. Which was part of my Dr's reason.
I have a really healthy heart, but I had an issue of elevated heart rate for the rest of the day after exercise. If I relaxed all day, my resting heart rate was in the 50s/60s. But if I did almost anything other than relaxing, my resting heart rate was in the 80s/90s and if I exercised, the 100s. My Dr figured with such a healthy heart that the issue wasn't physical, but hormonal. Ironically, some of my other life long issues like getting head-rushes also mostly went away. Funny how lowing my heart rate and blood pressure nearly eliminated getting dizzy when I got up.
Geoffrey replying everyone with 👍😂
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Okay, but how can Jonathan understand what he's saying?
as far as frolicking ... if one smiles even when they do not really feel like it ... their body shall de-stress ... so pause... smile ... keep smiling :) ... ... destress :))) --- also, pioneer scientist of Montréal on stress was Hans Selye (endocrinologist / Prague then McGill) Océane
I've been getting grey hair since i was 12 years old. I am 28 now and almost fully grey. My father and my mother barely have grey hair so it doesn't seem genetic, grandparents included. I take vitamin supplements. Do you think it is from stress? I've always been a very nervous person and i was born 3 weeks too early
My aunt's hair was snow white by the time she was in her early or mid 20s. Mom was coloring her hair by her mid 30s. I didn't really get a lot of gray until late 50s.
Well when I stress out because of losing a job, moving to another country, finding a new job, looking for a place to live, I just remember that there are plenty of other, much more stressful things. Kinda helps not to lose it all 😃
I'm crying as I watch this. I am SOOOOOOOO stressed. Going through a lot on that list of major stressors. I have what I believe is full body hives. Doctors can't help. So I am suffering so bad. Feel like I have a bad sunburn along with a lot of itching.
im sorry to hear that :( i hope you find some means of recovery soon ♥️
@@aleinad34 thank you so much for your kindness.
Severe itch, burning sensation on skin, headaches might be symptoms of psoriasis, please check up with your doctor. This is one of many diseases caused by stress. Hope you'll be okay!
@@ira6133 thank you
I take hydroxyzine for that and anxiety because I don’t sleep much. It’s like Benadryl.
Thank you mate.
I have struggled with PTSD for a long time and you are the only one who has gone into the details of what excatly is happening to my body.
If you had of just said.... (insert short layman version here)
I wouldn't have those very important details and my new understanding.
Your humor and advice is also appreciated.
You earned my like and sub but to be honest your shameless plug would have worked by itself it was that good.
Good luck with your health situation...
And I agree, he is a funny Man...on form in this video😊👍
@@em945 thank you. That is appreciated.
All the best to you.
Very good video! I experienced the right amount of stress today for a necessary event. I broke up a fight outside of Walmart. Both guys grappling on the ground and one of them pulled a gun and put in the face of the other guy after I had separated them. He was going to shoot him. I talked him down and convinced them to just leave… afterwards, with the amount of adrenaline induced, I could feel the shaking in my arms and legs as the energy winded down. I’m just happy no one got hurt… or arrested cuz then I would have to deal with a subpoena and all that who has time for that? Talk about stress! 😂
Glad you're ok!
don't try to break a fight bro. it would be pretty f'ed up if you got shot for no fkin reason. i know i wouldn't. especially if a gun is involved. like i know people who got killed just for trying to break a fight.
Love to hear how childhood maltreatment influences the development of the stress response system as a child grows into adulthood.
Most common stresses:
-Major Injury
-Changing Job
-Moving
-Getting Married
Me: who broke my leg a week after getting married and had to move and start Grad school all at the same time… “Oh. No Wonder I got actual depression that year…” like it was BAD!!! I couldn’t function AT ALL!! Luckily I made it through that phase and am mostly in a better place mentally and working on getting to a better place physically. But that really had some lasting effects…
I think prolonged stress all my life due to some trauma and anxiety/panic disorders probably contributed a lot to the physical health situation I have. I gained a lot of weight in a short time no matter what I ate and had really bad insulin insensitivity so my body was basically borderline diabetic, and a lot of my hormones were out of whack to the point of being dangerous. Luckily I’m working with an awesome doc to fix that situation and I’ve made good progress. But with the effects of prolonged stress described, I’d be surprised if that wasn’t a major contributing factor.
When you young you dream and, when you get old you have nightmares. I never understood that saying until I started getting older. Would have been great to stay young and stress free:)
Engaging my motor cortex in the frontal lobe of my brain so it can send a signal down to my forearm and hand muscles so that I can click the like button for another great video from you guys! Thank you!
😂 Thank you for the anatomical comment!
@@theanatomylab I learned a lot from you😇
I’m so grateful to have found this video. It’s nice to see someone explain it in a way that people can understand. I’ve been in medicine for 25 years and I know that chronic stress can do a lot of damage, but until it happened to me personally I didn’t think much of it. After being in an emotionally abusive relationship and leaving, I found out just how much damage it can do. I began to have extreme fatigue, weakness, brain fog, myalgias and more. When I first presented with symptoms I was told it sounded like long covid, but I have never had covid. My labs revealed a positive ANA, elevated titer, elevated WBC, elevated lipids and a lot of others abnormal. I’ve seen rheumatology, endocrinology, cardiology and immunology. I was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome, a parathyroid adenoma and thyroid nodules. No autoimmune disorder was diagnosed, but I still have a positive ANA and elevated WBC. Chronic inflammation due to stress is all they can come up with. I lost 50 pounds. I couldn’t eat or drink and now my eGFR went from 81 to 57! I sought therapy and tried medication, but no meds worked. I went from being extremely healthy. I was a runner and felt great everyday and now I struggle to get through my day somedays. I’m slowly getting myself back, but it’s been a long process. I share this so that maybe it will help someone else who is under chronic stress. Do whatever you can to relieve the stress. I promise you the stress isn’t worth the problems it causes and the reality is most of what we stress about isn’t anything we can control anyway. Take care of yourselves, my friends. You’ll be thankful you did.
Well put. I’ve been suffering from debilitating anxiety leading to GI distress for going on 20 years now with no relief, and it has/is destroying my life. The amount of catastrophic shifts that have occurred psychologically and physiologically have been crushing. I was a very active athlete and weight lifter and had a bright future. I am now a shell of a man that I used to be and suffer profoundly with basic day to day tasks. My whole existence is symptom management. I am incapable of experiencing any other mental or physical processes due to my over abundance of stress. I’ve been to a plethora of medical practitioners including the coveted Mayo in Rochester and not a single lab, work-up, invasive examination or psychological review has resulted in any “notable” abnormalities, so I’ve been “diagnosed” with IBS, anxiety, and central sensitization. I’ve been through a rainbow of meds and sadly the only thing that has any favorable impact is clonazepam. Because of the abusive nature of this controlled substance by addicts and others, the medical community is scared to continue this methodology of mono therapy with benzo’s , so they try to force you on other meds or adjuncts. All of which have been a complete nightmare for me. Thanks for your story. Sadly but great-fully it’s reassuring to see my suffering isn’t segregated. Hope is powerful.
@@TurboGuy979 I’m sorry you’re dealing with this, too. There is some comfort in knowing you aren’t suffering alone.
@@TurboGuy979 They forced me off of my benzos when I switched insurance (medicaid to private because I was making more money). It's been over a year and I still rarely sleep without help from Old Grandad or Jack Daniel's. I'm diagnosed PTSD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder and agoraphobia. NO DOCTOR CARES, they won't prescribe anything that works, so I take nothing. Sucks.
You're the most adorable smart person on UA-cam. Thank you for all that you do.
Can stress trigger some kind of inflammation too instead of reducing it? I get feverish whenever i'm stressed, even with the slightest stressor
I would be curious about that as well. For the past year or so I would also always get feverish from stress. Although technically only my head gets warmer. General body temperature stays the same
I was surprised that stress reduces inflammation, I have crohn's disease and it was initially triggered during a stressful time of my life, and my gut cramps/has more bowel movements when I'm stressed.
Details are cool. I totally agree. I takes a massive amount of basic research to discover those details.
Im in the early 30s, few months ago I started to develop little pimples like chickenpox, mostly on my ribs and the bones on the front of my hips. Then it turns in big sores that was hurting like burns. My doctor told me it was Zona, but seemed to be a bit surprised because its usually older people who are suffering from this. The first thing she asked was: "Do you had a lot of stress recently?" (No need to say the answer was HELL YES). The sores stayed for maybe a month, then it slowly disappeared. Weird.
That’s how mine started but my history of trauma is so vast from childhood and into now. It gets better as you practice good self care. And stay away from narcissist.
It sounds like you had shingles. Aka herpes zoster. I had it in my mid 20s from stress, again late 2022, at age 64, after a highly stressful period. We have this virus hidden in our bodies after chickenpox infection and it can reactivate and cause that painful blistering rash when our immune system is compromised.
@@lynnebucher6537 Shingles in french is Zona 😉
I learned a new english word today because of you hihhih thanks!
Details are, indeed, cool and fun.
Thank you 😊
Could you show the histology of the digestive system I think that'd be quite interesting.... love the channel.
My cat died, then my mom died, then I lost my job, then my car got repossessed. Life is kicking my ass and so is the stress!!!
could u please, explane how cigarette affect stress....?
We will add it to the list! Thanks for watching!
When you run out it’s very stressful 🤣😂
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@@jasminer1784 Nicorette gum!
love your work guys , great stuff
I really need this video's knowledge.. Right now
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Well done sir!… very comprehensive explanation of the HPA axis. I really enjoyed this video!! Thank you!