Stress kills

Hello world! After suffering from chronic stress for years and healing myself I decided to write this blog to help people out. Chances are you are over stressed too if you have ended up reading this. What I´m about to tell next you won´t probably ease your stress but keep reading, I can help your suffering.  You can read more about my personal story on the About me page.

The fact is Stress kills. There´s no nicer way to put it. The scientific evidence (in which everything in this blog will be based on btw) that points to this conclusion is staggering. There aren´t actually many studies that directly examine the relationship between stress and life expectancy – at least on humans – simply for the reason that such studies are damn near impossible to conduct in any relevant accuracy.

However one recent epidemiological study showed a 50 per cent increase in the mortality rates of men who experience persistently moderate or high levels of stressful life events over a number of years (1). There are also some life expectancy studies done on animals and plenty of studies  done on correlation between stress and many chronic illnesses, like cardiac disease and high blood pressure (2, 3, 4) which directly affect one’s life expectancy  (5, 6).

Since stress influences neurochemical, hormonal, and immunological functioning it has also been speculated to effect the carcinogenic process. In simple terms there is research that suggests chronic stress is the actual leading cause of many cancers. (7, 8)

Stress has also been associated with many non-lethal modern day ailments that are growing to epidemic proportions, are causing huge costs in health care and are lowering the quality of life of millions of people world wide. These ailments include inflammatory bowl diseases (IBS, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis), mental illnesses (anxiety, depression, psychosis), migraine headaches, chronic pain and chronic fatigue syndrome. (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)

The examples above are truly just the tip of the ice berg since many if not most illnesses are affected by some form of stress in one way or another. Stress affects your immune system so it can even increase your likely hood of catching a infectious diseases like the common flu.

This is the reason why you have to take stress seriously and not brush it off as a nuisance. If you constantly feel stressed and fatigued and  appreciate your health and longevity, you will need to make  lowering stress a priority! (Try not to stress about it too much though 🙂 Fortunately this can be achieved with some relatively minor life changes and there are even some scientifically proven supplements you can take to cope better with stress. The life changes are simple and effective but very easy to miss if you do not know what you are doing. Don’t worry, I will help you.