Stress promotes chronic inflammation and cancer
Created: 07/01/2022 11:16 am
By: Natalie Hull Drawbar
Unhealthy diet, obesity and alcohol consumption can promote cancer.
How does chronic stress affect health?
Body
and
soul
inevitably belong together, as physicians assumed in ancient times.
The discovery of
cortisol
in 1950 in connection with
stress reactions
and their direct influence on bodily processes gave physicians a better understanding of how the human mind and its condition affects the body.
What happens in the human body when stressed
Cancer can be promoted by chronic stress.
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"A healthy lifestyle could prevent 40 percent of all cancers," says Professor Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Dean and Ordinaria at the Chair of Preventive Paediatrics, Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences at the Technical University of Munich.
Conversely, this means that an
unhealthy lifestyle can promote cancer
.
The human body reacts to stress not only by releasing
adrenaline
,
noradrenaline
and
cortisol
, but also by activating or inhibiting a large number of other hormones, cytokines and other signaling molecules, as described in the journal "Primary and Hospital Care".
In the long term, permanent stress can lead to biological damage to cells.
Stress hormones
impair the function of the immune cells, which
promotes
inflammatory processes.
Stress promotes chronic inflammation and cancer
Chronic stress
promotes inflammatory reactions in the body.
The formation of
cancer cells
is promoted or stimulated by cortisol, and there are now reliable findings from studies.
Psychosocial stress can lead to chronic inflammation due to the sustained activation of the immune system and thus have a carcinogenic effect, i.e. cause cancer.
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