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Are you suffering from stress and want to learn how to reduce it? As a first step is necessary to understand what stress is precisely. You can find out here what stress is by reading articles about the biology and psychology of stress. After having read these articles, you will be in the top 1% of people who understand stress best. You will use your newly acquired insight in stress in subsequent sections to reduce your stress or that of your loved ones or colleagues at work.

1. Understanding stress

Ending stress: switching off adrenaline

By Erwin van den Burg On October 29, 2021 - 4 min read

The adrenaline response during stress needs to be switched off once stress has ended. This protects against cardiovascular disease. Scientists have found how the sympathetic nervous system is turned off, and how this may help to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system to calm you down.

1. Understanding stress

Ending stress: switching off cortisol

By Erwin van den Burg On October 29, 2021 - 7 min read

Ending stress reactions is needed after a stressful event has been dealt with successfully. Cortisol levels in the blood will come down to the same low levels before the stress had started. Chronic, bad stress and illness will thus be avoided. You can even help to bring cortisol levels down again!

1. Understanding stress

Stress is all about energy in the body

By Erwin van den Burg On October 09, 2021 - 6 min read

Redistribution of energy to organs that need to be activated to deal with a problem is a key function of the stress reactions in the body. It allows for fight-or-flight reactions and permits us to focus our attention on stressful events. Stress is all about energy, linking it to fatigue and burnout.

1. Understanding stress

Stress and cortisol

By Erwin van den Burg On October 08, 2021 - 7 min read

Stress elevated cortisol levels in the blood. Cortisol is a stress hormone that helps the body to cope with stress. It acts on a slower timescale than adrenaline, taking a few minutes to completely unfold. Chronic stress can lead to deregulation of cortisol release and cause disease.

1. Understanding stress

How the sympathetic nervous system influences your body during stress

By Erwin van den Burg On October 03, 2021 - 9 min read

The sympathetic nervous system enables you to deal with stress, and prepares the body for the "fight-or-flight" response. But when it is active too long it may have adverse effects on the body. How can you tell that your sympathetic nervous system is switched on?

Tag: 1. Understanding stress

Ending stress: switching off adrenaline

Ending stress: switching off cortisol

Stress is all about energy in the body

Stress and cortisol

How the sympathetic nervous system influences your body during stress

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