Before we talk about whether mental and emotional stress can cause cancer, there is one other thing you need to understand well.
Stress affects your body tremendously.
I don't know if you have heard of Hans Selye, but he's known to be the father of stress research. He's extremely well respected in that field, and he claimed that there are two forms of stress:
Eustress, which is positive and makes you energized and invigorated after you do a little exercise, and Distress, which is negative, makes you exhausted and ruins your immune system.
Your body and stress.
How your body deals with stress is controlled in the part of your brain called the hypothalamus. This is where all of the biochemical changes are carefully tracked.
If anything goes out of balance, your brain responds immediately. That response happens through the use of a great hormone called cortisol.
Now, if everything is fine, cortisol is awesome for your health. If you're constantly stressed, however, and the cortisol levels are either too low or too high for extended periods of time, your immune system goes bonkers and...
... you get cancer.
See, every single person out there has cancer cells in them.
This is completely physiological and your immune system takes care of them properly if it's working like it should.
If, on the other hand, it's compromised, those individual cancer cells form into colonies which we commonly call tumors.
That's where problems start to happen.
So, how do you prevent cancer from occurring?
The answer is very simple: by not stressing too much.
You also should make sure that your cortisol levels are normal through proper diet, a decent amount of total (and pre-midnight) sleep every day, and a healthy amount of exercise.
Is this really that easy?
Well, it really is.
The easiest way I found to deal with stress is to remember that, as they say, perception is everything.
You can take any situation from your life and if you think about it, you'll realize that you can look at it from a ton of different perspectives. Some will be negative and others will be positive. If you keep a positive outlook on life, you'll keep your mental and emotional stress in check.
Now...
I want you to do me a favor and think about something for a moment, OK?
Do you remember the last time you did something that scared you for a long time? Maybe it was a visit at the dentist's you've been planning for weeks, maybe a confession to your spouse or maybe something else.
You choose.
... did you notice how after you actually did it, the situation seemed much easier to handle than you thought?
We have a natural tendency to exaggerate the negative because we're spoon-fed it almost all the time.
We're hard wired to pay attention to the bad news. You can train your mind to think more positive, and when you do, you'll be healthier, happier and...
... healthy for a long, long time. Remember: your health is all about your mental and emotional health.
Copyright 2012. Boro Petric. All rights reserved.
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Boro Petric is an international med-tech trader, financial expert and Super Health advocate, born and raised in Switzerland.
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