Sentences with phrase «acts as a stressor»

More specifically, excess caffeine acts as a stressor to the body and causes an increase in stress hormones — especially cortisol — which then enhance fatigue instead of eliminating it.

Exposure to parental arguments may act as a stressor to children, and children are more likely to have negative emotional reactions such as anger and aggression (Jenkins, 2000).

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When acting in combination with other stressors, such as overfishing, acidification can reduce the provision of food from the ocean considerably.»

Modern aquatic ecosystems are infiltrated with diverse mixtures of pollutants that can act together as a multiple stressor to alter biotic systems at all levels of biological organization, including individuals, populations and communities.

This can pose a problem when other stressors act in parallel, such as increased UV - radiation or other chemical compounds.

As you can imagine just by performing these simple thought exercises, if there are emotional, chemical, relationship and other stressors constantly present in your mind or body, there can be a real pile - up on your natural biological stress response, and all of these stressors acting together can act as a serious deterrent to adrenal recoverAs you can imagine just by performing these simple thought exercises, if there are emotional, chemical, relationship and other stressors constantly present in your mind or body, there can be a real pile - up on your natural biological stress response, and all of these stressors acting together can act as a serious deterrent to adrenal recoveras a serious deterrent to adrenal recovery.

Consequently, when you begin a ketogenic diet, it acts as a metabolic stressor on the body.

As mentioned above, the stressor is usually not the problem, it's how we act or react to the stressor that will determine its effect.

She suggests choosing an SPF that also has antioxidants to prevent free radical damage or a formula like Colorescience Even Up Clinical Pigment Perfector that evens out skin tone over time, protects against the sun and other environmental stressors, and immediately acts as a color - corrector for any dark spots.

The initial phases of keto - adaptation actually act as a powerful stressor and stimulus to your mitochondria.

Usually the negative effects are due to environmental stressors acting on the body during a transitional period (such as the TWT) where the body is vulnerable.

Such effects may occur through a process of «neurohormesis» in which cellular components of the CNS respond to exogenous and endogenous toxic agents (e.g. - H2S, NO, CO, glutamate, calcium) that act as mild stressors to facilitate neuronal resistance against stronger insults.»

We hypothesized that social support would act as a buffer to stress because (1) we measured perceived availability of social support that has supported buffering effects and (2) the buffering hypothesis may be particularly relevant to chronically ill persons since a chronic disease could be viewed as an accumulation of stressors (Schreurs & de Ridder, 1997).

More importantly, in the face of stressors, a good marriage can serve as perhaps the most important resource of support (Cutrona, 1996) by fostering responsiveness to a loved one's needs and acts that communicate caring and facilitate adaptive coping with stress.

The central focus of my remarks will be to explicate the role that marital education, family counseling, and related services might play in promoting and strengthening healthy marriages and to discuss what we know about the potential of strategies that seek to ameliorate the key stressors (for example, job loss, lack of income, domestic violence, and childbearing) that make it difficult to form marriages in the first place or act as a catalyst that eventually breaks up existing marriages.

Linking both findings suggests that psychological detachment acts as a mediator and as such explains how and why daily job stressors are related to strain.

These studies suggest that social support may act as a buffer against the negative impact of stressors, with social support found to be associated with lower maternal distress, depression, negative affect, and stress, and greater use of positive coping strategies and adjustment [6, 29, 30 • •, 38, 53, 70, 72, 78].