Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide 10
Can Stress Make You Sick?
- As soon as a stressful event occurs it triggers a release of hormones in the brain and in nerves all over the body, the stress response
- The stress hormones are
increased within 3 minutes
of the event
- The immune system takes
much longer to respond,
hours to days
- So it is unlikely that short lived stress can have much of an effect on the immune response
Notes:
Pg 109, Sternberg, Esther M., 2001, “The Balance Within,” W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
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