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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 sympathetic nervous system helps to deal with stressors, but should not remain active for too long in order to avoid health problems. 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

Previous articles dealt with the activation of stress reactions in the body. But wouldn't it also be great if there were a method to switch them off again? Such a mechanism does indeed exist. Stress management may even make use of it to reduce stress.

1. Understanding stress

Stress is all about energy in the body

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

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the HPA-axis serves to deal with stressors. They prepare for the fight-or-flight reactions and give focus to cope with stressful events. But how do they do that? Redistribution of energy in the body is the key.

1. Understanding stress

Let there be cortisol: the HPA axis and stress

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

The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis (HPA-axis) is a hormonal system that helps the body to cope with stress. It acts on a slower timescale than the sympathetic nervous system, taking a few minutes to completely unfold. Chronic stress can lead to deregulation of the axis 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

Let there be cortisol: the HPA axis and stress

How the sympathetic nervous system influences your body during stress

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