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This is why some people have greater pain than others and why some develop
chronic
pain that does not respond to treatment, while others respond well.
For some people who suffer from severe
chronic
pain, that is pain that doesn't go away months after their injury should have healed, none of the regular treatments work.
Another leading cause of memory problems is
chronic
stress.
However, with
chronic
stress our bodies become flooded with these chemicals, resulting in a loss of brain cells and an inability to form new ones, which affects our ability to retain new information.
Speaking of digestion, does
chronic
stress affect your waistline?
It is an organ that actively releases hormones and immune system chemicals called cytokines that can increase your risk of developing
chronic
diseases, such as heart disease and insulin resistance.
Initially, they help prepare to fight invaders and heal after injury, but
chronic
stress can dampen function of some immune cells, make you more susceptible to infections, and slow the rate you heal.
You may have to curb your
chronic
stress.
As if all that weren't enough,
chronic
stress has even more ways it can sabotage your health, including acne, hair loss, sexual dysfunction, headaches, muscle tension, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, and irritability.
For example,
chronic
stress increases the activity level and number of neural connections in the amygdala, your brain's fear center.
This means
chronic
stress might make it harder for you to learn and remember things, and also set the stage for more serious mental problems, like depression and eventually Alzheimer's disease.
With
chronic
malnutrition being the norm for most of human history, genetics evolved to favor fat storage.
So I want to know what happens to the
chronic
procrastinators.
And that's mainly for those patients who suffer from
chronic
diseases.
About 20 percent of people, however, wind up with chronic, long-term PTSD.
The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and
chronic
stress.
There is information that a repeated history of concussion can lead to early dementia, such as Alzheimer's, and
chronic
traumatic encephalopathy.
This finding is also consistent of what we've seen in this brain disease that I mentioned,
chronic
traumatic encephalopathy.
So this is an image of a middle-aged ex-professional football player, and the thing that I want to point out is if you look at the corpus callosum, and I'll page back here so you can see the size of a normal corpus callosum and the size of the person here who has
chronic
traumatic encephalopathy, it is greatly atrophied.
You've probably heard it called
"chronic
fatigue syndrome."
Once it's developed, it's chronic, lasts a lifetime, and there are no known cures.
And to give you a sense of the scale of these diseases, in 2010, the global burden of disease was estimated at 2.5 trillion dollars, and since they are chronic, that cost is compounding and is therefore expected to rise up to six trillion dollars in just the next 15 years.
But what if we find ourselves in a
chronic
high-stakes setting and we feel we can't start those conversations yet?
There's a growing body of research examining the relationship between
chronic
stress and illness.
The woman had a knee injury, required multiple surgeries, and over the course of these, developed a
chronic
bacterial infection in her leg.
Within three weeks of applying the phages, the
chronic
infection had healed up, where before, no antibiotic was working.
When we face a
chronic
serious illness, whether it's rheumatoid arthritis or lupus or cancer or diabetes, or cirrhosis, we lose control.
All of us at some point in our lives will face a
chronic
serious illness that causes us to lose control.
A woman dealing with a serious
chronic
disease.
For many teens battling
chronic
sleep loss, their go-to strategy to compensate is consuming large quantities of caffeine in the form of venti frappuccinos, or energy drinks and shots.
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