1. What is stress?

Stress is the body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response. The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional responses. Stress is a normal part of life. You can experience stress from your environment, your body, and your thoughts.

2. Is stress normal?

Ans: The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress can be positive, keeping us alert, motivated, and ready to avoid danger.

3. What does body do to deal the stress?

Ans: The body’s autonomic nervous system has a built-in stress response that causes physiological changes to allow the body to combat stressful situations. This stress response, also known as the “fight or flight response”, is activated in case of an emergency. However, this response can become chronically activated during prolonged periods of stress. Prolonged activation of the stress response causes wear and tear on the body – both physical and emotional.

4. What is abnormal stress/ distress?

Ans: Stress becomes negative when a person faces continuous challenges without relief or relaxation between stressors. As a result, the person becomes overworked, and stress-related tension builds.

5. What happens when stress becomes prolonged and relief free?

Ans: Stress that continues without relief can lead to a condition called distress – a negative stress reaction. Distress can disturb the body’s internal balance or equilibrium, leading to physical symptoms such as headaches, an upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, sexual dysfunction, and problems related to sleeping. Emotional problems can also result from distress. These problems include depression, panic attacks or other forms of anxiety and worries.

6. What is the intensity of damage caused by stress?

Ans: Research suggests that stress can bring on or worsen certain symptoms or diseases. Stress is linked to 6 of the leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.

7. What do people do when they are in stress?

Ans: People engage in the compulsive use of substances or behaviors to try to relieve their stress. These substances or behaviors include food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, sex, shopping and the Internet. Rather than relieving the stress and returning the body to a relaxed state, these substances and compulsive behaviors tend to keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems. The distressed person becomes trapped in a vicious circle.

8. What are the initial warning signs of stress?

Ans: Chronic stress can wear down the body’s natural defenses, leading to a variety of physical symptoms, including the following:

9. How do I understand that I have abnormal stress?

Ans: There are various tests which tell us our stress level. One of the tests is called lipid per oxidation (LPO) test. The cells when undergo stress release a molecule called Malondialdehyde (MDA). This molecule destroys that cell and damages the other cells which are nearby. This is released in blood and in body fluids where it can be detected. It signifies the level of cell damaged by stress. The more the value, more extensive the cells damaged by stress.

10. Where can I get these tests done?

Ans: Please contact us on for details.

11. How do these tests help me?

1. You have an authentic documentation about the damage done to your body by stress.

2. You can have targeted de - stressing management and repeat tests will tell how your body responds

   to them.

3. If you are not having any illness (like high blood pressure, diabetes etc.)

4. If you are already having any chronic illness (like high blood pressure, diabetes etc), you will understand the progress of the illness.

5. If you are pregnant, you will understand the risk level at the time of delivery to yourself and baby.

6. If you have any habits, the report will show you the gravity of your body damage and help you come

   out of it.

7. It’s a better parameter than the weight, BMI, waist – hip ratio, blood pressure etc.

12. How do I know my body’s capacity to deal with stress?

Ans: Yes, you can understand this by doing a simple blood test, Catalase. It helps you understand body’s own defense system to combat stress.

13. How do I manage stress?

Ans: Please visit us on our website for details.

People who can learn to manage stress, lead happier & healthier lives.

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