Sentences with phrase «include physical stressors»

It can include psychological stress, such as that from toxic relationships, financial worries or the death of a loved one, or it can include physical stressors such as food allergies, blood sugars swings, or toxin exposure from chemicals and pollutants.

Adaptogenic Herbs: Adaptogens are herbs that help the body adapt to stress, including physical stressors like exposure to an allergen.

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I'd also include skipping breakfast in this «physical stressors» category.

Various stressors have been reported to have hormetic characteristics, including heat shock, irradiation, heavy metals, pro-oxidants, acetaldehyde, alcohols, hypergravity, and repeated physical exercise.»

Childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse are among the strongest predictors of psychiatric pathology and severity of clinical course, including suicide.2,4 - 14 The influence of childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse on psychological development is thought to be mediated directly by changes in cognitive processing of threatening stimuli,15 - 18 resulting in enhanced negative affect to daily life stressors.19 Although there is a clear link between early - life adversity and psychopathology, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms responsible for the long - lasting behavioral consequences of childhood abuse.

The most common traumatic stressors for young children include accidents, physical trauma, abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic and community violence.

My areas of interest include gender / sexuality / LGBTQ - related issues, anxiety, mood disorders, disability (physical, developmental, intellectual), relationships, transitions and adjustments, self - esteem and body image, daily life stressors, trauma, play therapy, and issues around identity.

Although greater early local production of proinflammatory cytokines at wound sites is beneficial because it is associated with enhanced healing, greater systemic production of proinflammatory cytokines can represent a maladaptive response.24 Both physical and psychological stressors can provoke transient increases in plasma levels of proinflammatory cytokines, particularly IL - 6,25 as can negative emotions like depression and anxiety.26 - 28 More frequent or persistent stress - related changes have broad implications for physical and mental health; sustained elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines have been linked to a variety of age - related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, certain cancers, and frailty and functional decline.29 - 31

There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).

These changes are important because both stressors and depression can sensitize the inflammatory response in such a way that they produce heightened responsiveness to stressful events as well as antigen challenge.25, 27,28,60 Furthermore, more frequent or persistent stress - related changes in plasma levels of these key cytokines have broad implications for health; elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines have been linked to a variety of age - related disease, including cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, certain cancers, and frailty and functional decline.29 Moreover, inflammatory activation can enhance development of depressive symptoms.30, 31 Thus, relationships characterized by hostility, repeated conflicts, and heightened IL - 6 levels could have negative consequences for both physical and mental health.