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Is Stress Making You Sick?

  • March 03, 2020

Can stress lead to tummy troubles? Yes. Can stress make it harder for you to kick a cold? Yes. Your stress really could be making you sick. Stress often starts in your head with a worry or a fear, but those feelings of anxiety, and perhaps even panic, don’t stay there. When you feel stressed, your body ramps up production of the stress hormones cortisol, adrenaline and norepinephrine. This triggers the start of the stress response, and, like a snowball rolling down a mountain, it...