Chronic Stress Causes Brain Damage - try MASSAGE!
We’ve personally experienced what stress can do…that’s why we created RESCUE MASSAGE!
So stressed out you can’t think straight? Well, it turns out that’s not just a figure of speech. Long-term stress damages the brain, impairing everything from emotion and impulse control to certain big-picture analytical thinking.
“In essence, with chronic stress, you become more primitive,” says Amy Arnsten, professor of neurobiology at Yale University.
But before you stress out about that, consider Ms. Arnsten’s recent findings, published in the Sept. 7-11 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her new research highlights ways in which this type of chronic-stress-induced brain damage can be not only stopped but reversed.
Turns out that when we have chronic stress, the brain gets flooded with an enzyme that effectively breaks down part of the structure (the dendritic spines) of the neurons in the prefrontal cortex, Ms. Arnsten explains.
So if we got rid of the enzyme (aka protein kinase C) - either by medication or natural stress reduction - the neurons would recuperate, right?
Indeed.
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