The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Hormones, Nerves, and Stress
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Stress is defined as the response of the body to a "demand" placed upon it by any nonspecific stress or stressors. At the beginning of the demand the body prepares itself for fight or flight. This first stage is instantaneous and intense and can only be sustained for a short interval. Assuming survival and with continuous and/or recurrent demand, there ensues hormonal and neurological effects, which if not relieved will result in wear and tear of the body causing a multiplicity of illnesses and premature aging.
The author outlines stress physiology, some of the deleterious effects of repeated stress, and methods of stress relief.
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The Slim Book of Health Pearls - Sheldon Cohen M.D. FACP
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HISTORY
Hans Selye (1907-1982) is the father of modern stress theory. How did it start?
As a young endocrinologist in the 1930’s, working in Canada, he embarked upon research to discover a new sex hormone. He injected laboratory rats with an ovarian extract hoping to produce physical changes in the rats which would prove the new hormone’s existence. What he found instead were rats with bleeding stomach ulcers, enlargement of the adrenal glands, and shrinkage of the spleen, thymus and lymph nodes (the reasons for these change will be discussed later). Upon injecting the rats with an entirely different extract, to his surprise he duplicated the previous results. He reasoned that the cause of the findings in the rats had nothing to do with exposure to an unknown sex hormone, but rather resulted from an exposure to some toxic
agent. This was all reminiscent of what he learned as a young medical student in Czechoslovakia where patients with different infectious diseases manifested symptoms in common making it difficult to diagnose a specific disease based upon the patient’s symptoms. He finally reasoned that these rats had some variables they all shared resulting in similar changes to their bodies. What were the variables that caused these physiological changes in their lives?
The only things that his rats had in common was that they were all captives, were locked in cages, injected often, chased around the room when they escaped their cages, and, in general, were not happy campers. They were under stress
on a daily basis thus causing the similar changes in their physiology. From this came the concept of a General Adaptation Syndrome,
or stress reaction. What Dr. Selye had discovered was the body-mind connection, the concept of stress changing body physiology and promoting disease; an amazing leap forward in medical knowledge.
So, with that background, what is the human stress reaction? How does it work its magic to save lives? How does it injure or kill? What parts of the body are involved in this schizophrenic physiology? To understand this we need to learn about:
1. The endocrine system
2. The nervous system
These are the principle players in this intense drama.
First we start with the endocrine system as it was understood in the early 1900’s.
ENDOCRINOLOGY CIRCA 1900
Endocrine glands produce and secrete hormones into the blood stream.