How does stress affect your body? Hypothalamus is the emotion center of your brain center of the fight or flight reflex which is where anxiety and depression reside.
When under stress, the following occurs:
1) Increased adrenaline: feel nervious, crave carbs,
2) Increased cortisol: gain abdominal weight, diabetes, hungry
3) Increased oxytocin: hungry, gain weight
4) Non cyclic vasopressin: poor sleep cycle: tired, fatigued, cranky
5) Decreased gonadotropins: low, irregular sex hormones: low libido
6) Decreased thyrotropin: low thyroid hormone: tired, weight gain,
7) Increased insulin: weight gain, diabetes, poor circulation
8) Impaired free radical quenching: rapid skin, and general aging
How Stress Affects Beauty/Aging
The same hypothalamic hormonal response to stress and depression too, have profound effects on the skin, specifically:
1) Increased adrenaline:
2) Increased cortisol: increased facial fat, puffiness, thin skin with poor collagen
3) Increased oxytocin: obesity, fluid retention, puffiness
4) Non cyclic vasopressin: fluid retention, fatigued look and feel
5) Decreased gonadotropins: dry, thin skin with poor oil content
6) Decreased thyrotropin: thin, dry skin, hair and nails
7) Increased insulin: diabetic skin: lumpy fat distribution, rapid aging
8) Impaired free radical quenching: thin skin similar to "smokers skin"
Stress's Affect on Weight Gain
1) Increased adrenaline: feel nervious, crave carbs,
2) Increased cortisol: gain abdominal weight, diabetes, hungry
3) Increased oxytocin: hungry, gain weight
4) Decreased thyrotropin: low thyroid hormone: tired, weight gain,
5) Increased insulin: weight gain, diabetes, poor circulation
Stress's Affect on Hormones
1) Increased cortisol: gain abdominal weight, diabetes, hungry
2) Decreased gonadotropins: low, irregular sex hormones: low libido
3) Decreased thyrotropin: low thyroid hormone: tired, weight gain,
