Today’s guest blog post comes from Aris Grigoriou,  Student Recruitment Manager at Study Medicine Europe (SME). Aris explores the negative impact of stress using  SME’s new infographic which provides a good overview of the science behind stress, how stress affects the body, the dangers of chronic stress and how we can all reduce the impact of stress.

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Throughout the world, it’s safe to say that we’re all experiencing stress in some way, whether it’s due to financial challenges, health concerns or a demanding workload.

Currently, many people are either suffering from poor health or having difficulty minimising risk factors that cause illness or chronic conditions. We can’t argue with the data. Harvard Health Publishing reported that “the United States spends the most money on healthcare, and yet still has one of the lowest life expectancies of all developed nations.” In a nutshell, we need to pay attention to all the elements that impact on our health.

We can’t deny that stress is a huge barrier to our collective wellbeing even if paradoxically we’re able to practise good health habits elsewhere. In fact, the World Health Organization has declared stress the Health Epidemic of the 21st Century. The challenge with knowing how to identify and manage stress largely lies in the mythologies we have around it. Neuroendocrinologist and neuropharmacologist George Fink says, “Stress is a highly personalized phenomenon that varies between people depending on individual vulnerability and resilience and between different types of tasks.” Building upon this analysis, we need to remember that what promotes health is empowering data that encourages personal and social solutions to a unique problem.

Study Medicine Europe has published its ‘The Negative Impact of Stress’  infographic to help promote health and support people to learn more about this area of wellbeing. Not only is this graphic designed to provide explanations on the way stress affects the body, but it’s also deliberately been created to connect everyone with the straightforward information you might not get when you look for facts on this topic elsewhere. Above all, remember that health is considered to be multifaceted and there might be parts of your life that require attention even if you don’t think they’re related to stress. We hope this helps you in your pursuit of better physical, mental and emotional health.

 

About Study Medicine Europe

Study Medicine Europe is the leader in medical student recruitment with offices in the UK, USA and India. Having many years of experience in securing placements for prospective students from all over the world. More specifically, they officially represent and are affiliated with  Medical Schools in Europe (Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria) that offer English-language undergraduate and graduate programs in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine.  You can find out more about them here