HOW CAN STRESS BE MANAGED?
MANAGING STRESS LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE
STRESS SHOWS no boundaries, it can be Mum juggling housework, cooking, and looking after young children or maybe Dad is experiencing stress at work trying to get something that takes three days to complete, being told it must be finished today. Unfortunately, when we finish todays housework or leave the office we may take the stress with us. As explained in a separate section “Stress & Cortisol”, stress releases hormones into our blood stream, it’s when hormones are continually being pumped into our blood stream, we start to suffer with side effects leading to high blood pressure which can in-turn cause damage to the heart, kidneys, liver, and other body organs and can lead to heart conditions or a stroke.

Even when stressful moments come and go, there is medical concern that if stress occurs just intermittently at low level, over years this can also have a damaging effect on your heart and other organs.
So much information has been written about stress that can be the result of money worries, relationship tensions, problems at work etc. etc. which can lead on to depression. Medical research indicates stress and/or depression may end up causing “Heart and Organ Damage” which begs the big question ‘How can Stress be Managed’?
Learn more about looking after your "Second Brain" by reading more information below.
LET’S LOOK AT OPTIONS...


LET’S LOOK AT OPTIONS to reduce stress and cope with depression without medication, very easy to say, not so easy to put in practice.
I know from experience, when I’ve come home from work after a day filled with meetings, most of which require some immediate action.
My way to combat the days’ stress was to sit down and reach for a glass of wine.
It certainly worked, I felt relaxed and able to cope.
Unfortunately, one drink can become two or more and that’s when the blood pressure starts to rise, and the problems begin……….
LET’S HAVE A LOOK
LET'S HAVE A LOOK at Decision making when the body is suffering from dehydration and lack of sleep to see the impact when the body is fed too much alcohol. Without question your ability to make decisions is reduced, how bad your decision making becomes, depends how much alcohol you drink.
Dehydration occurs in the body when alcohol is consumed, and not surprisingly, the amount of dehydration depends on how much we drink. However, too much alcohol starts to limit your body from producing an Anti-Diuretic Hormone that allows the body to reabsorb water, with a lower level of this hormone the body secretes more fluid than normal through an increase in urination.

WHILE WE ARE SLEEPING without any alcohol in our blood stream, the brain produces more of the Anti-Diuretic Hormone, which enables us to sleep through the night without having to visit the loo.
However, with alcohol in our blood stream the brain doesn’t produce enough of this hormone, with the result we wake up and can frequently visit the loo after a night out.
This has the knock-on effect that we’re not getting a good nights sleep and wake up with dry eyes, increased blood pressure and possibly a hangover.
Read more about sleep in section titled: - ‘Sleep, how much do we need’
