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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Overweight
If your weight is causing you problems, you're not alone. Nearly 60% of Canadian adults are overweight or obese, causing growing concern for this important risk factor associated with heart disease and stroke.
Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight, you can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke while controlling for other health problems like hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.
But in our hectic lives, it is not always easy to find time to eat well and be active. To help you get started, we have prepared a plan in three easy steps:
1. Make your self
2. Eat healthily
3. Be physically active
Read our tips to help you, your children and you, maintain a healthy weight.
1. Make your self
Waist size
Men with a waist circumference greater than 102 cm (40 inches) and women whose waist circumference exceeds 88 cm (35 inches) are more likely to suffer from health problems like heart disease, the hypertension or diabetes. For persons of Chinese or South Asian, the risks are high even for a smaller waist circumference: 90 cm (35 inches) for men and 80 cm (32 inches) for women.
BMI
To determine if you are in the range of healthy weight, you might want to consult the tool called Body Mass Index (or BMI). The BMI is the ratio between the size and weight and can involve a range of more weight to a healthy weight rather than a single ideal. Find out whether your weight makes you prone to diseases associated with obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and strokes.
2. Eat healthily
In terms of food, the secret lies in the variety. Try a variety of nutritious foods that can prevent disease and who have good taste. To create balanced meals with reasonable portions, follow the Food Guide to Healthy Eating.
3. Be physically active
There are several important reasons to incorporate physical activity into your life. This is an excellent way to maintain a healthy weight, reduce high blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, manage stress and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. The heart and Stroke Foundation recommends that Canadians integrate work into their daily lives. Just 30 minutes of physical activity most days of the week is sufficient.
Consult Canada's Physical Activity Guides to Healthy Active Living.
Tips for keeping a healthy weight:
* Eat a healthy diet and physical activity
* Lose weight gradually. Achieving a healthy weight is a long-term commitment
* Avoid fad diets
* Adopt a diet containing less saturated and trans fats and more vegetables and fruits, complex carbohydrates and foods high in fiber
* Use less fat for cooking. Cook your food in the oven, grilled, steamed, water or on the barbecue
* Check the size of your portions. Divide your plate into four sections. Fill in the three quarters of grain and vegetables and the remaining quarter with meat or meat substitutes
* If you tend to compensate with food, identify the source of your stress and learn new ways to cope
For more information on cholesterol, please read our brochure Your health, your weight: simple steps to make healthier choices.
Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight, you can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke while controlling for other health problems like hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.
But in our hectic lives, it is not always easy to find time to eat well and be active. To help you get started, we have prepared a plan in three easy steps:
1. Make your self
2. Eat healthily
3. Be physically active
Read our tips to help you, your children and you, maintain a healthy weight.
1. Make your self
Waist size
Men with a waist circumference greater than 102 cm (40 inches) and women whose waist circumference exceeds 88 cm (35 inches) are more likely to suffer from health problems like heart disease, the hypertension or diabetes. For persons of Chinese or South Asian, the risks are high even for a smaller waist circumference: 90 cm (35 inches) for men and 80 cm (32 inches) for women.
BMI
To determine if you are in the range of healthy weight, you might want to consult the tool called Body Mass Index (or BMI). The BMI is the ratio between the size and weight and can involve a range of more weight to a healthy weight rather than a single ideal. Find out whether your weight makes you prone to diseases associated with obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and strokes.
2. Eat healthily
In terms of food, the secret lies in the variety. Try a variety of nutritious foods that can prevent disease and who have good taste. To create balanced meals with reasonable portions, follow the Food Guide to Healthy Eating.
3. Be physically active
There are several important reasons to incorporate physical activity into your life. This is an excellent way to maintain a healthy weight, reduce high blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, manage stress and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. The heart and Stroke Foundation recommends that Canadians integrate work into their daily lives. Just 30 minutes of physical activity most days of the week is sufficient.
Consult Canada's Physical Activity Guides to Healthy Active Living.
Tips for keeping a healthy weight:
* Eat a healthy diet and physical activity
* Lose weight gradually. Achieving a healthy weight is a long-term commitment
* Avoid fad diets
* Adopt a diet containing less saturated and trans fats and more vegetables and fruits, complex carbohydrates and foods high in fiber
* Use less fat for cooking. Cook your food in the oven, grilled, steamed, water or on the barbecue
* Check the size of your portions. Divide your plate into four sections. Fill in the three quarters of grain and vegetables and the remaining quarter with meat or meat substitutes
* If you tend to compensate with food, identify the source of your stress and learn new ways to cope
For more information on cholesterol, please read our brochure Your health, your weight: simple steps to make healthier choices.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Living with advanced cancer
You may hear health professionals use different terms to describe cancer that has progressed beyond the early stages, they could talk to advanced cancer, secondary, metastatic, or terminal phase.We define advanced cancer as a cancer cure is unlikely.
Redeeming the new
You may be the impression of being completely overwhelmed. "At first, you're completely numb and unable to think. Then it seems that everything starts to go very fast around you. "
You do not particularly like to do if everything went well, or try to hide or ignore what you feel. It is not uncommon to go through various emotions that come and go at different times:
* Shock and disbelief - as if time had stopped for you.
* Anger - against yourself, your family, doctors, the whole world, your god or simply the inevitable cons. That anger may result from the loss of control of your life but can also lead you to blame others for what happens to you.
* Anxiety (insecurity), and fear, for example death or effects of cancer treatments.
* Sadness and grief - you may be sad losses that the illness requires you (you must surrender your physical ability, your job or travel, for example). Or you feel a mourning in advance, so that you project in the death ahead.
* Denial - you may reject the diagnosis or what the doctors tell you about your illness.
* Guilt and regret - in retrospect, you may want to be what you would or should not have done throughout your life.
* Depression - for example if you feel sad, have more hope and crying constantly. Such states of mind, they are growing, extend or begin to take over your thoughts and your life, can be signs of clinical depression. You should know that depression can be treated.
Over time, you might be able to accept what happens to you - that is, acknowledging that cancer is incurable and likely to result in death. Accepting the disease, it is not renounce life. This allows you instead to take the reins of your life and you focus on what is most important to you.
Redeeming the new
You may be the impression of being completely overwhelmed. "At first, you're completely numb and unable to think. Then it seems that everything starts to go very fast around you. "
You do not particularly like to do if everything went well, or try to hide or ignore what you feel. It is not uncommon to go through various emotions that come and go at different times:
* Shock and disbelief - as if time had stopped for you.
* Anger - against yourself, your family, doctors, the whole world, your god or simply the inevitable cons. That anger may result from the loss of control of your life but can also lead you to blame others for what happens to you.
* Anxiety (insecurity), and fear, for example death or effects of cancer treatments.
* Sadness and grief - you may be sad losses that the illness requires you (you must surrender your physical ability, your job or travel, for example). Or you feel a mourning in advance, so that you project in the death ahead.
* Denial - you may reject the diagnosis or what the doctors tell you about your illness.
* Guilt and regret - in retrospect, you may want to be what you would or should not have done throughout your life.
* Depression - for example if you feel sad, have more hope and crying constantly. Such states of mind, they are growing, extend or begin to take over your thoughts and your life, can be signs of clinical depression. You should know that depression can be treated.
Over time, you might be able to accept what happens to you - that is, acknowledging that cancer is incurable and likely to result in death. Accepting the disease, it is not renounce life. This allows you instead to take the reins of your life and you focus on what is most important to you.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
factors of thyroid cancer
Risk factors of thyroid cancer:
Why a person will suffer from cancer of the thyroid and the other not? The medicine just a little to identify the causes of such unfairness. However, some risk factors have been updated. Discover them with Prof. Jean-Louis Wémeau, president of the Thyroid Research Group. On the occasion of the first multidisciplinary meetings on thyroid cancer, Prof. Jean-Louis Wémeau Chief of Endocrinology, CHU of Lille and president of the Thyroid Research Group, gave an update on risk factors cancers of the thyroid. However, note that these cancers are rare (about 3800 cases per year).
Irradiation:
Irradiation of the thyroid during childhood is the main risk factor and even the only known cause. Irradiation may be external (used to treat another illness) or when contamination (ingestion or inhalation) by radioactive iodine. The studies (monitoring of children survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those exposed to nuclear testing during and after the Chernobyl accident) seem to have shown that only children under 15 years are susceptible to the carcinogenic action radiation. Among them, the risk is even greater than the dose is high. The radiation therapy (for blood cancers in particular) multiplied by two or three the risk of nodules (hard body and rounded) and among them the risk of cancer. Regarding metabolic radiotherapy with 131 used in the treatment of certain thyroid diseases (using a radioactive isotope that will bind preferentially to the gland), no increased risk was observed in adults.
"After the Chernobyl accident, about 3000 children under 15 present in utero or in the womb at the time of the explosion, have developed such radiation-induced cancers. But it don ' there is no scientific argument that leads to think that the increased incidence of thyroid cancer among adults, seen in Europe as in every country in the world, has any connection with the accident at Chernobyl, "says Prof. Wémeau.
Familial predisposition:
Between 3 and 5% of patients with papillary thyroid cancer (which represent 70% of tumors of the thyroid) have a parent with her own cancer of the thyroid but no genetic marker has been identified. In addition, 25-30% of medullary carcinomas (representing 7% of thyroid tumors) are familial forms in connection with a constitutional mutation of a gene (the gene Ret). Rare genetic diseases are also associated with thyroid cancer: colonic polyposis, Gardner syndrome, Carney, Cowden.
Age, hormonal factors and gender:
The majority of thyroid cancers reported between 30 and 50 years. Women are two to four times more affected than men with cancer of the thyroid. The origin of this sexual inequality is due to hormonal factors specific to women, as well as pregnancies that promote the formation of goiter and thyroid nodules.
Pre-existing thyroid disease:
Assume that the number of thyroid cancer is higher in carriers of goiter, Graves' disease and also when thyroid hormone levels of TSH present chronically too high.
Load iodine:
It is known that iodine deficiency may promote the onset of thyroid disease but it does seem that there's a connection between dietary iodine and the occurrence of thyroid cancer. "However, the increased load iodine reduces the prevalence of gallbladder cancer, the benefit of papillary cancers, easier to handle," says Professor Jean-Louis Wémeau.
Overweight:
An increase in thyroid cancer has been reported in cases of overweight, including Hawaii. However, further studies should confirm such a link. While alcohol and tobacco are important risk factors for most cancers, no association was found with cancers of the thyroid. But many questions remain regarding these factors. Further studies should quantify the possible influence of air pollutants such as benzene, chlorinated derivatives.
Why a person will suffer from cancer of the thyroid and the other not? The medicine just a little to identify the causes of such unfairness. However, some risk factors have been updated. Discover them with Prof. Jean-Louis Wémeau, president of the Thyroid Research Group. On the occasion of the first multidisciplinary meetings on thyroid cancer, Prof. Jean-Louis Wémeau Chief of Endocrinology, CHU of Lille and president of the Thyroid Research Group, gave an update on risk factors cancers of the thyroid. However, note that these cancers are rare (about 3800 cases per year).
Irradiation:
Irradiation of the thyroid during childhood is the main risk factor and even the only known cause. Irradiation may be external (used to treat another illness) or when contamination (ingestion or inhalation) by radioactive iodine. The studies (monitoring of children survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those exposed to nuclear testing during and after the Chernobyl accident) seem to have shown that only children under 15 years are susceptible to the carcinogenic action radiation. Among them, the risk is even greater than the dose is high. The radiation therapy (for blood cancers in particular) multiplied by two or three the risk of nodules (hard body and rounded) and among them the risk of cancer. Regarding metabolic radiotherapy with 131 used in the treatment of certain thyroid diseases (using a radioactive isotope that will bind preferentially to the gland), no increased risk was observed in adults.
"After the Chernobyl accident, about 3000 children under 15 present in utero or in the womb at the time of the explosion, have developed such radiation-induced cancers. But it don ' there is no scientific argument that leads to think that the increased incidence of thyroid cancer among adults, seen in Europe as in every country in the world, has any connection with the accident at Chernobyl, "says Prof. Wémeau.
Familial predisposition:
Between 3 and 5% of patients with papillary thyroid cancer (which represent 70% of tumors of the thyroid) have a parent with her own cancer of the thyroid but no genetic marker has been identified. In addition, 25-30% of medullary carcinomas (representing 7% of thyroid tumors) are familial forms in connection with a constitutional mutation of a gene (the gene Ret). Rare genetic diseases are also associated with thyroid cancer: colonic polyposis, Gardner syndrome, Carney, Cowden.
Age, hormonal factors and gender:
The majority of thyroid cancers reported between 30 and 50 years. Women are two to four times more affected than men with cancer of the thyroid. The origin of this sexual inequality is due to hormonal factors specific to women, as well as pregnancies that promote the formation of goiter and thyroid nodules.
Pre-existing thyroid disease:
Assume that the number of thyroid cancer is higher in carriers of goiter, Graves' disease and also when thyroid hormone levels of TSH present chronically too high.
Load iodine:
It is known that iodine deficiency may promote the onset of thyroid disease but it does seem that there's a connection between dietary iodine and the occurrence of thyroid cancer. "However, the increased load iodine reduces the prevalence of gallbladder cancer, the benefit of papillary cancers, easier to handle," says Professor Jean-Louis Wémeau.
Overweight:
An increase in thyroid cancer has been reported in cases of overweight, including Hawaii. However, further studies should confirm such a link. While alcohol and tobacco are important risk factors for most cancers, no association was found with cancers of the thyroid. But many questions remain regarding these factors. Further studies should quantify the possible influence of air pollutants such as benzene, chlorinated derivatives.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Take charge of your cholesterol
Take charge of your cholesterol: new guidelines
Get everything you can to control your cholesterol and decrease your risk of heart disease? Under the new guidelines on cholesterol and heart disease, you may have to undergo further medical tests or rethink your current treatment.
What are the new guidelines and why are they important to me?
The new guidelines of 2009 were made by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. These guidelines are developed by physicians specializing in the fields of cholesterol and heart disease. These guidelines aim to inform physicians of the latest clinical data on the management of high cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart disease. These recommendations are based on evidence of more recent research on the treatment of cholesterol.
In light of these new guidelines, it is time to ask if your treatment is "on the ball. Ask your doctor if you need to pass new medical tests, starting up or rethinking your treatment or your current treatment goals Based on the new recommendations.
Here are some changes you may need to bring:
If you take medicine, ask your doctor if you should reassess your treatment goals and your treatment plan.
The new guidelines allow for easier set treatment goals:
LDL-C remains the most important target, which means that you and your doctor may need to change your goals and your treatment plan. The goal for all is to reduce LDL-C of at least 50%. Some of the new treatment targets.
Get everything you can to control your cholesterol and decrease your risk of heart disease? Under the new guidelines on cholesterol and heart disease, you may have to undergo further medical tests or rethink your current treatment.
What are the new guidelines and why are they important to me?
The new guidelines of 2009 were made by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. These guidelines are developed by physicians specializing in the fields of cholesterol and heart disease. These guidelines aim to inform physicians of the latest clinical data on the management of high cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart disease. These recommendations are based on evidence of more recent research on the treatment of cholesterol.
In light of these new guidelines, it is time to ask if your treatment is "on the ball. Ask your doctor if you need to pass new medical tests, starting up or rethinking your treatment or your current treatment goals Based on the new recommendations.
Here are some changes you may need to bring:
If you take medicine, ask your doctor if you should reassess your treatment goals and your treatment plan.
The new guidelines allow for easier set treatment goals:
LDL-C remains the most important target, which means that you and your doctor may need to change your goals and your treatment plan. The goal for all is to reduce LDL-C of at least 50%. Some of the new treatment targets.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Hypertension
Secrets of the tension:
Blood pressure is the pressure of blood in the arteries. Step missed any consultation, measuring the voltage remains mysterious. What do the two figures announced? When can we speak of hypertension? How does a blood pressure? Doctissimo an update on all these subjects that are important to you.
In the body, the arteries act as foster mothers. They carry blood from the heart to various body tissues and thus provide oxygen to cells essential to their survival. At each contraction of the heart, blood is expelled forcefully from the heart chambers and propelled into the ducts. To perform their function satisfactorily, they must remain flexible and unobstructed (free fatty deposits).
Diastolic and systolic:
The arrival of this wave has a blood pressure on the artery walls, as would the water flowing in a hose. This pressure to the contraction of the heart, or systolic, is the highest figure measured when taking blood. This is the systolic blood pressure. Systole occurs after a period of relaxation or diastole, during which the heart relaxes and fills. The pressure exerted by blood in the arteries is then lower. It corresponds to the lowest number, or diastolic blood pressure.
The art of the cuff:
It is these pressures that we consider when taking blood. Must become the instrument of any consultation, the monitor is composed of a cuff equipped with an inflatable sleeve connected to a manometer to measure pressure. Placed around the upper arm and inflated, the cuff stops the flow of blood through the artery of the arm (brachial artery).
The doctor raises his stethoscope over the artery, downstream of the cuff, it gradually deflates.
* When the cuff pressure exceeds the systolic blood pressure, blood does not flow and no sound is heard. When cuff pressure decreases, the blood begins to pass through the artery and rattled the walls, compressed by the device. Each heartbeat thus entails a regular sound, synchronous pulse.
Garden products
Garden can really bring to light their home, and decorate a home requires the same considerations decoration. I bought home and garden things from shopwiki store, such as garden grooming and garden accents provide the look of my garden. I designed the room around a piece of eye protection as a unique coffee table or lamps. This store also offers the best electronics products, prices at very low. Here I bought an Apple iPod in conjunction with iTunes.
Most iPods can now listen to music and even though the iPod touch user interface and quick access to thousands of applications specialist shops. Their home theater systems buying guide was very helpful and help me choose the right one. Sport and fitness-component bought boxing gloves and hand wraps, which was the first line of defense against the knuckles and fingers locked sulfur. Heart rate monitors are becoming more sophisticated, offering all types of functions such as alarms in different areas.
Most iPods can now listen to music and even though the iPod touch user interface and quick access to thousands of applications specialist shops. Their home theater systems buying guide was very helpful and help me choose the right one. Sport and fitness-component bought boxing gloves and hand wraps, which was the first line of defense against the knuckles and fingers locked sulfur. Heart rate monitors are becoming more sophisticated, offering all types of functions such as alarms in different areas.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The household hazards for children
The dangers and accidents in the home for children:
Every day, 2,000 children 0-6 years old are victims of accidents everyday. In one year, an estimated nearly 740,000 the number of accidents of everyday life in this age group (1.7 million among children 0-15 years old) that require consultation with hospital emergencies. For young children between 0 and 4 years, within the home (domestic accident) is the principal place of accident. (2006 figures)
In 2002, 308 children aged 0-15 years died from an accident (HLAs) and among these deaths, 64% involved children under 4 years. Overall, these figures have been stable since 1999 when they recorded a steady decline since the early 19802.
The main causes of accidents:
80% of the accidents of everyday life for children 0-6 years occur during play activities and entertainment inside or outside the house. Falls are the most frequent, regardless of age: they represent 73% of the causes of accidents among children under 1-year and 55% among children aged 0-16 years.
In the latter, then accidents are caused by blows and collisions (18%), a crash (6%) and other causes: burning, choking, cutting, pinching, drowning, strangulation (16%).
Prevention is better than cure, attention to household hazards.
Learn to avoid accidents in the home of the child. An accident can happen quickly. So, to avoid large and small sores while leaving the child flourish, there are solutions:
Monitor your child: he is not aware of the risks he takes.
You can help make progress in growing and accompany him in his discovery of the world. Your child should always be supervised by an adult.
Do not leave the custody of another child.
Explain the dangers to your child, make him understand, clearly and age-appropriate, the risks it faces and how to avoid them.
Follow the advice of professionals: ask your doctor, a pediatric nurse or pharmacist any questions concerning your child.
Every day, 2,000 children 0-6 years old are victims of accidents everyday. In one year, an estimated nearly 740,000 the number of accidents of everyday life in this age group (1.7 million among children 0-15 years old) that require consultation with hospital emergencies. For young children between 0 and 4 years, within the home (domestic accident) is the principal place of accident. (2006 figures)
In 2002, 308 children aged 0-15 years died from an accident (HLAs) and among these deaths, 64% involved children under 4 years. Overall, these figures have been stable since 1999 when they recorded a steady decline since the early 19802.
The main causes of accidents:
80% of the accidents of everyday life for children 0-6 years occur during play activities and entertainment inside or outside the house. Falls are the most frequent, regardless of age: they represent 73% of the causes of accidents among children under 1-year and 55% among children aged 0-16 years.
In the latter, then accidents are caused by blows and collisions (18%), a crash (6%) and other causes: burning, choking, cutting, pinching, drowning, strangulation (16%).
Prevention is better than cure, attention to household hazards.
Learn to avoid accidents in the home of the child. An accident can happen quickly. So, to avoid large and small sores while leaving the child flourish, there are solutions:
Monitor your child: he is not aware of the risks he takes.
You can help make progress in growing and accompany him in his discovery of the world. Your child should always be supervised by an adult.
Do not leave the custody of another child.
Explain the dangers to your child, make him understand, clearly and age-appropriate, the risks it faces and how to avoid them.
Follow the advice of professionals: ask your doctor, a pediatric nurse or pharmacist any questions concerning your child.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Prevent stress to avoid depression:
Although natural, uncontrolled stress can be unhealthy and lead to depression. A close link to watch closely.
Stress and depression depression affects more than 3 million people in France today with about 300,000 suffer from chronic form. Studies suggest that 10-25% of women and 5-12% of men at risk of major depression during their lifetime.
If the causes of depression are many, the stress would be important. The neuro psychiatrists that approximately one in five people will experience at least one depressive episode in his life under the pressure of stress1. Moreover, according to a study récente2, stress at work precipitated the occurrence of psychological disorders among previously healthy individuals.
Stress and depression: how to explain this link?
When a person is subject to daily and intensely stressful situations, it produces a quasi-continuous hormones (adrenaline and cortisol). The excessive production of these hormones have harmful effects on the nervous system: the excess cortisol (due to a state of repeated stress) will block the growth of new neurons in the hippo campus, a brain region known to act on the mood. Cortisol is also impede communication between neurons by blocking the receptors stimulated by serotonin, a molecule involved in mood disorders. A process that, over the long term, could lead to depression.
Stress and depression: the warning signs
If you are under considerable stress, here are some telltale symptoms of a shift towards a possible depression:
* The general state of fatigue, moodiness;
* Sudden mood changes, sudden crying spells;
* Anxiety, fear, panic;
* Headaches, decreased libido;
* Amnesia, difficulty concentrating, indecisiveness;
* Frequent absence from the workplace, reduced productivity;
* Printing of being overwhelmed, loss of sense of humor.
Other adverse effects of stress:
Stress can cause fatigue, headaches, sleep disorders ... It can also affect the digestive system (constipation, spasms, bloating). Finally, stress can also disrupt the functioning of the thyroid gland, decreasing the resistance of the immune system and cause allergic reactions. Its effects on hypertension and cardiovascular disease have long been known.
Do not give in to panic!
If it can cause many disorders, stress can also be positive! It provides energy and strength necessary to cope with different situations. Be alert to signs of stress and depression is necessary, but it is not to panic. Listening to his body remains the best way to remain calm ...
Delphine Tordjman:
1 - "Depression, new" evil of the century, "Les Echos" from February 13, 2007
2 - Study by Maria Melchior of the Medical Research Council (London) and National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), published in August in the British monthly Psychological Medicine
Stress and depression depression affects more than 3 million people in France today with about 300,000 suffer from chronic form. Studies suggest that 10-25% of women and 5-12% of men at risk of major depression during their lifetime.
If the causes of depression are many, the stress would be important. The neuro psychiatrists that approximately one in five people will experience at least one depressive episode in his life under the pressure of stress1. Moreover, according to a study récente2, stress at work precipitated the occurrence of psychological disorders among previously healthy individuals.
Stress and depression: how to explain this link?
When a person is subject to daily and intensely stressful situations, it produces a quasi-continuous hormones (adrenaline and cortisol). The excessive production of these hormones have harmful effects on the nervous system: the excess cortisol (due to a state of repeated stress) will block the growth of new neurons in the hippo campus, a brain region known to act on the mood. Cortisol is also impede communication between neurons by blocking the receptors stimulated by serotonin, a molecule involved in mood disorders. A process that, over the long term, could lead to depression.
Stress and depression: the warning signs
If you are under considerable stress, here are some telltale symptoms of a shift towards a possible depression:
* The general state of fatigue, moodiness;
* Sudden mood changes, sudden crying spells;
* Anxiety, fear, panic;
* Headaches, decreased libido;
* Amnesia, difficulty concentrating, indecisiveness;
* Frequent absence from the workplace, reduced productivity;
* Printing of being overwhelmed, loss of sense of humor.
Other adverse effects of stress:
Stress can cause fatigue, headaches, sleep disorders ... It can also affect the digestive system (constipation, spasms, bloating). Finally, stress can also disrupt the functioning of the thyroid gland, decreasing the resistance of the immune system and cause allergic reactions. Its effects on hypertension and cardiovascular disease have long been known.
Do not give in to panic!
If it can cause many disorders, stress can also be positive! It provides energy and strength necessary to cope with different situations. Be alert to signs of stress and depression is necessary, but it is not to panic. Listening to his body remains the best way to remain calm ...
Delphine Tordjman:
1 - "Depression, new" evil of the century, "Les Echos" from February 13, 2007
2 - Study by Maria Melchior of the Medical Research Council (London) and National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), published in August in the British monthly Psychological Medicine
