6. Hair loss and gray hair
On the list of what stress does to your body, we could not miss hair loss. Yes, chronic stress can trigger a condition known as telogen effluvium, which causes hair loss by stopping the hair follicles from growing. Over time, this might make hair strands come out more easily and frequently when washing or combing one’s hair. Hopefully, after the stressful period ends, the hair will start growing back again.
But hair loss is not the only thing stress does to your body. Stress can also cause your hair to lose pigment much earlier. This is called premature graying, and you can notice it in people who have very stressful jobs.
After analyzing some studies, scientists discovered that there might be a link between the way stress causes premature graying and the sympathetic nervous system. The latter controls the fight-or-flight response, and it might also have an impact on the stem cells that produce hair pigment.
Stress hormones are released by sympathetic nerves that enter hair follicles, which leads to pigment-related stem cells leaving the hair follicle. In the absence of those cells, the body doesn’t produce more pigment cells. This makes all the new hair grow gray.
Now you know what stress does to your body! Have you ever experienced something like this?
Did you know that in order to live, you don’t need all of your organs? Shocking, right?
If you want to learn how to control your stress, this book might help you: 5-Minute Stress Relief: 75 Exercises to Quiet Your Mind and Calm Your Body
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Fantastic info. Needed to see this. Very enlightening.
This is fascinating. I have every one of these symptoms except the acid reflux/ulcers but had no idea they were related…stressed me out lol 😏
I have two of these symptoms- hair loss and
Tinnitus- have had a very stressful two years. The article was very helpful. Kick started my walking routine and positive
outlook. Thanks.
I just went through a year and a half of stressful days and nights. I felt helpless and I even felt close to
Palpitations one night and I pressed my life alert and spent one night in the hospital, where the doctors
did not find anything wrong. I spoke to my family doctor about my problem and he wrote in my chart
that I was paranoid.
The term of my lease finally was over and I moved with my daughter and her family and my nightmare
is finally over.
I don’t have an overweight problem. Want to get fit, strong and energetic. What is all the internet hang up that all people who fast and want to learn yoga are fat!
thank you very much for all that info.
One thing I do during extreme stress is sleep. Go to my happy place and stay there until my body functions wake me up. Then I go back. One time I slept for 3 days on and off. No TV. No noise. No outside stressor. It passes and I feel more relaxed.
I love the information , and I would like to be come a member of your science information.
I think stress is a much larger problem than you discribe. I’ve had 11 stents, 5 strokes, 2 heart attacks, and died once. I attribute all that to stress as I endured many hours, days, weeks and years working without having the choice to avoid the stress I was under.
Better choices would have helped me, I realize that. As far as suggestions for you, I suggest you take this fight to insurance companies first. Unfortunately I don’t see a simple solution to the ultimate culprit, capitalism. Good luck with yours. I’ll try to influence mine.