For my 8th grade challenge, I am studying stress and how it affects the brain and body. Here are some important facts and information I pulled from my report about how exercise helps control stress and some other coping strategies to help relive your stress.
Exercise can provide stress relief for your body while imitating effects of stress such as the fight or flight response, and helping your body and its systems practice working together through those effects.
Breathing can help to calm down and control your stress. This is because when you breathe deeply, it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. The brain then sends this message to your body.
Having an active lifestyle, healthy diet, good hygiene, and physical fitness can take a strong toll on controlling your stress.
According to a recent ADAA poll, some 14 percent of people make use of regular exercise to cope with stress. Exercise may be the most recommended coping technique, by health care and professionals. (ADAA)
Exercise has established benefits against chronic stress. Exercise tackles inflammation by leading to an anti-inflammatory response. In addition, exercise increases neurogenesis- the production of new brain cells in important areas, such as the hippocampus.