What processes occur in the body during a period of critical stress?

Question

Can someone who knows this stuff please inform me on the processes that occur in the body during a period of severe stress. I have heard things like stress makes you gain weight, stress makes you lose muscle mass, stress causes increased blood sugar levels, stress causes the breakdown of protein in the body and increased fat storage. However, I am not exactly sure how many of these are true and am interested in finding out the real facts behind stress.

Answer 1

Stress can cause many factors to happen in your life.  It can attack your physical, or emotional with the chemical factors that constrain or exert pressure on your body organs or processes on mental processes in contemporary and popular usage with psychological pressures.

  1. It can cause many breakdowns in all sorts of ways in your body in making it harder to function.

   2. It can cause severe headaches and pain psychological.

    3. It can cause depression, increase eating habits or decrease eating habits.

     4. Yes, it can cause increase and decrease blood sugar levels.

      5. It can cause protein breakdown with alot more.

    Stress causes body functions to act in a slower pace then normal and lack of exersize only keeps the stress to act faster in breakdowns of the body. For exercize help's stress to slow down.  Stress is a body shutdown in due time if not properly taken care of in an adequate and proper way professionally.   I hope this helps. God Bless yOu!

Answer 2

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stress-...

Answer 3

Stress leads to the release of a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is anti-inflammatory, but too much can lead to weight gain as it affects sugar metabolism. Link included for more information. If you require more scientific literature, you can use PubMed.