HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Avail, Allostasis, Birth Weight
15 Apr 2018
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Stressful experience is beneficial - healthy & adaptations to increased stress & sometimes more complex later on. Can be overwhelming - leads to serious illness or death. Occurs when one must deal w/ demands much greater than/less than the usual level of activity or perceived activity. Health is defined as: not in the absence of disease but - ability of human being to function satisfactorily. Body must adapt to constant & perception of changes - by maintaining constant condition - ex. This called homeostasis: maintaining desirable bodily state. Bodily reaction to stress is fight or flight associated w/ physiological changes. Stress also occur as response to differ stimuli - both positive & neg event can induce stress. *body runs out of energy to respond to stress & exhaustion occur - prolongation of stress results in allostasis - causes wear & tear in body that causes disease (3) exhaustion - bodily functions are slowed or stopped.
