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How stress effects your heart, and what are the symptoms, tell me how to relieve those symptoms?
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But stress may affect behaviors and factors that increase heart disease risk: high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and overeating. Your body releases adrenaline, a hormone that temporarily causes your breathing and heart rate to speed up and your blood pressure to rise. 5 ways to de-stress and help your heart Stay positive. Laughter has been found to lower levels of stress hormones, reduce inflammation in the arteries, and increase "good" HDL cholesterol. Meditate. Exercise..Unplug. Find ways to take the edge off your stress.
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