{"id":599,"date":"2024-10-06T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.otorinoticino.ch\/?page_id=599"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:26:50","slug":"medicina-dello-stress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/otorinoticino.ch\/en\/medicina-dello-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STRESS MEDICINE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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What is stress from a biological point of view?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The word \u2018stress\u2019 comes from the English language and has numerous meanings, such as pressure, tension, strain, stress. Stress’ causes a biological reaction in our body, i.e. the activation and release of adrenaline and cortisol through the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands, which puts us in a state of fight or flight.
Acute stress has a protective function, thus promoting life-saving reactions. Chronic stress, on the other hand, poses a considerable threat to our bodies with detrimental effects on our health; it insidiously affects our emotions and imperceptibly influences our thought patterns and, not least, leads to undesirable changes in behaviour, which in turn have a negative impact on our environment. The end result, not infrequently, is isolation or even emotional or mental breakdown.
Chronic stress weakens our immune system and damages our body (see also nutrition<\/a>). The only question will then be where our \u2018Achilles tendon\u2019, our weakest point, is; in the early days of modern medicine it was called \u2018locus minoris resistentiae\u2019, a place of minor resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiredness and exhaustion: the prevailing symptoms, but not only…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Statistically, two thirds of the population suffer from chronic exhaustion and fatigue. It seems to have become almost a folk disease. On the one hand, the causes are chronic stressful situations, which can be of professional, family or emotional origin; but it is often the combination of several factors that reduce our performance and put our long-term health at risk. On the other hand, recovery phases are usually too short, so our system (mind and body) cannot regenerate sufficiently.
Numerous diseases are caused by excessive chronic stress. From an ENT point of view, after ruling out other causes of course, the following complaints are evoked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n