Summary
While long term, chronic stress is always bad for you, new research is showing that short-term bursts of stress actually pump up your immune system, thereby making you healthier.
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- - Your immune system may benefit from short spurts of stress.
- If you suffer from continuous stress, the same continuous stress, such as the stress experienced by people with some disabilities, your immune system will suffer.
- The two scientists reviewed 300 scientific papers involving about 19,000 people.
- Our fight or flight response comes way back when we were living in caves and walked around with clubs.
- Any stress that is long-term and brings about long-term anxiety is considered to be bad for our immune systems (and general health).
- The elderly and people who are already ill are more vulnerable to the negative effects of bad stress.
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