Stress
Hello. I found the following info on
diabetes.org<br
Stress is
a normal part of life, but one that can make it
harder to control your blood glucose (sugar). There are
several ways to fight stress and make your diabetes
control easier. <br
results when something causes your body to behave as if
it were under attack. Sources of stress can be
physical, like injury or illness. Or they can be mental,
like problems in your marriage, job, health, or
finances.<br
This preparation is called the fight-or-flight
response. In the fight-or-flight response, levels of many
hormones shoot up. Their net effect is to make a lot of
stored energyglucose and fatavailable to cells. These
cells are then primed to help the body get away from
danger.<br
response does not work well. Insulin is not always able to
let the extra energy into the cells, so glucose piles
up in the blood. <br
sources of stress are not short-term threats. For
example, it can take many months to recover from surgery.
Stress hormones that are designed to deal with
short-term danger stay turned on for a long time. As a
result, long-term stress can cause long-term high blood
sugar levels. <br
are mental. Your mind sometimes reacts to a
nondangerous event as if it were a real threat. Like physical
stress, mental stress can be short termfrom taking a
test to getting stuck in a traffic jam. It can also be
long term from working for a demanding boss to taking
care of an aging parent. In mental stress, the body
pumps out hormones to no avail. Neither fighting nor
fleeing is any help when the “enemy” is your own mind.
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