Action Plan: What Do You Want To Happen?
Action Plan: What do you want to happen?
Answer:
Provide aid to those people whos encountering high stress levels that cause harm to their health and productivity in their everyday lives.
Help people to fully understand the human stress response system to avoid causing harm to themselves.
Explanation:
The Human Stress Response System is evolutionarily old and has been shaped by the environmental experiences of thousands of preceding generations. Through millennia of adverse environmental challenges, adaptations and collective evolution, humans have developed a sophisticated stress response system.
The physical stress response is a complex network of coordinated physical and behavioral activation from the endocrine and nervous systems.
When a threat is perceived, the hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system (the "fight or flight" response) by sending signals through the autonomic nerves to the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands pump the hormone epinephrine—also known as adrenaline—into the bloodstream, causing several physiological changes:
The heart beats faster, pushing blood to the muscles, heart, and other vital organs.
Pulse rate and blood pressure increase.
Breathing becomes more rapid, and bronchi—airways in the lungs—open wide to take in more oxygen with each breath.
Extra oxygen is sent to the brain, increasing alertness.
Sight, hearing and other senses become sharper.
Blood sugar (glucose) and fats are released from temporary storage sites in the body, flooding the bloodstream and supplying energy to all parts of the body.
When the initial surge of epinephrine subsides, the hypothalamus activates the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, signaling the release of cortisol to keep the sympathetic nervous system engaged.
When the threat passes, the parasympathetic nervous system (the "rest and digest" function) calms the body and returns it to a pre-threat state.
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CODE: 9.16.1.4.
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