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[14 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 131 views]

Stress is basically your body’s response to a potentially threatening situation. These situations could be one of two types. An immediate threat, which triggers and acute bodily reaction or a more general level of stress that keeps our body in a state of alert or readiness.

The physiological changes that take place are hormonal and cardiovascular, like the triggering of certain hormones that send more blood rushing to the brain and extremities. This also means the heart beats that much faster to rush blood to various parts of the body..