Woman Doctor: You Should “Drink” Stress, Not “Eat” It

Endocrinologist Dr Zahra Pavlova emphasizes that stressful situations cannot be faced even by eating healthy foods, but rather we should drink them with water or dilute them with physical activity.

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“Eating stress,” she adds, is a classic mistake many make. Because it leads to digestive troubles, even though we try to compensate for the stressful situation with healthy eating.

She says, “Anger stimulates the desire to eat. Even though we eat tension with healthy foods today, it may not be within reach tomorrow, and we have to resort to fast foods like burgers and the like.

According to her, stress must therefore be “drunk” and not “eaten”. Because plain water is the best and more effective alternative to any meal.

“When you ‘drink’ from stress,” she says, “you cut the logical chain, to stimulate the brain to the tense adrenal glands, to produce the stress hormone ‘cortisol’ because when you drink water, this relationship breaks down and the hormone will not be produced.

She adds that exercise can also be used, which is a natural protection against stress.

“When a person is nervous, they start to walk. It is a defensive response, which can be consciously stimulated on purpose. Because when we do physical activity the stress level goes down, ”she says.

Source: Novosti

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