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Insufficient physical activity is clearly a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Adaptation to exercise intensely suppresses the subsequent cortisol response to psychosocial stressors. Exercise plays a crucial role in influencing the vascular system and is essential for maintaining vascular health. Hemodynamic stimuli generated by exercise, such as stress, directly impact vascular structure and function, resulting in adaptive changes. Heat adaptation is also a popular strategy for combating the negative effects of heat stress.
When the HPA axis is activated by chronic stress, negative effects occur, impacting cardiovascular health, such as:
1) Increased visceral fat deposits
2) Decreased bone and connective tissue metabolism
3) Increased insulin resistance
4) Irritability and mood swings
5) Altered perception of reality
6) Reduced stress tolerance (increased perception of stress)
7) Impaired decision-making and judgment
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As those who pursue what creates, builds health, prevents Dis-Ease there is more, and stronger evidence how many systems, functions and more cross talk - coordinate, cooperate so each "separate system" in the eyes of Allopathic Thinking actually are in a sense, teams. Teams with different main functions, yet work together for an end goal of Strong Health.
Many Eastern Cultures recognize this in practices such as Acupuncture. We think of them as nerve clusters, Nodes. Maybe Just Me, but it would seem these are mini-brains so when we do repetitive tasks, the messages move faster, and things work faster, less struggle. If we experience damage the experience could leave memory residue in these nodes. A similar thing could be part of what happens with our physical bodies. So with proper exercise, for example a damaged finger would benefit from physical exercise to relearn how to say, type again. Or, with exercise wake up, stimulate all those different systems how to remember what it is they once did, can do.
A little walking, some mild strength training along with stretching wake up different body systems and encourage an all systems go and this dampens stress, brings balance back into our minds and bodies.