Contents:
- Medical Video: Smoking Causes Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema
- 1. The brain sends a real signal of pain and longing
- 2. Your body builds a response fight or flight
- 3. Spotty and hair loss
- 5. Broken heart syndrome
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There are a number of surprising things about heartbreak that you never expected before. Every separation - whether it's only been running for corn for years - not only drains your emotions, but also your body's health.
Research shows that heartbreak can cause real physical problems, even in some cases, can be very serious. So, what actually happens in the body when you are broken hearted?
We summarize the 5 reactions experienced by the body during a broken heart, including the reasons why this can happen.
1. The brain sends a real signal of pain and longing
Troubled and missed turned out to be not just a joke. The 2010 study was published in Journal of Neurophysiology states, when you are forced to separate after spending a part of your life accustomed to the presence of someone you love, the brain will send pain signals throughout the body and cause various symptoms withdrawal seriously, like a sakaw person.
The study requires 15 people who have just broken up to look at photos of ex-girlfriends and then solve math problems. Then the process is repeated, but uses photos of the closest relations that do not have any romantic relationships. The brain scans from participants showed certain areas of the brain that could trigger pain appear activated when they saw a photo of their ex.
Gripping headaches, no appetite, insomnia, and "panda eyes" that you experience due to a breakup can be scientifically proven. This is caused by a decrease in the levels of dopamine and oxytocin, the chemical compounds that make happiness, replaced by high levels of cortisol (stress hormone). Exactly the physical symptoms of drug withdrawal experienced by cocaine users.
2. Your body builds a response fight or flight
When threatened, you will automatically do various ways to survive. Response fight or flight refers to physiological reactions arising from a stress trigger, both mentally and physically. As a stress response, the sympathetic nervous system in the brain is activated due to the sudden release of a number of hormones. The nervous system will stimulate the adrenal glands that trigger the production of catecholamine to alert your body to take action.
However, hormone production when the body does not need it will bring a number of other problems, such as shortness of breath and body pain (due to excessive cortisol production), heart palpitations (due to the production of cortisol and adrenaline), and accumulation of fat in the body. If at heartbreak you feel that your appetite is greatly reduced, this is a result of increased cortisol production in the body. Cortisol which is produced when stress will inhibit blood flow into the digestive tract. As a result, stomach acid production increases and gives discomfort in the stomach. The food that enters the body feels tasteless and not appetizing, making you less eager to eat.
And according to a 1994 study, stress can even affect fat distribution, because cortisol promotes fat deposition especially in your stomach area.
3. Spotty and hair loss
Again because of hormones. A 2007 study was published in The New York Post managed to override common causes of acne (such as pollution, by studying Singaporeans where climate change is very rare) and ensuring that stress can actually cause inflammation of acne. Researchers say, as much as 23% of cases of inflammatory acne occur when people are under very high stress, such as when they are broken hearted.
Stress turns out to also cause hair loss. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, M.D., a health consultant at mayoclinic.org, states, there are a number of reasons why stress can lead to hair loss. Stress hormone production loosens hair follicles gradually, causing hair to fall out when combed or when you are washing your hair. Not only that, stress can also trigger your habit of pulling hair out of the scalp (called trichotillomania), as a temporary solution to feeling frantic and uncomfortable due to stress, loneliness, or frustration.
4. High blood pressure
According to the American Heart Association, blood pressure can increase temporarily when you are hit by stress, but stress alone cannot yet be identified as a cause of chronic high blood pressure. So, no need to (add) worry about this. However, someone who has a history of high blood pressure and stressful need to be careful. A short increase in blood pressure for people with this condition will lead to a hypertensive crisis, which causes symptoms such as headaches, difficulty breathing, even nosebleeds.
5. Broken heart syndrome
The American Heart Association explains that when under severe stress (such as when broken hearted), sometimes part of your heart will temporarily enlarge and cannot pump blood properly. While the function of the other parts of the heart works very well, it can even contract very strongly. This condition can cause severe short-term heart muscle failure. Technically, this condition is referred to as stress induced cardiomyopathy, but is often referred to as "broken heart syndrome".
The good news, broken heart syndrome is a medical condition that is very rare, but easy to treat. A study in Japan in 2014 estimated that there were only 2% of cases of broken heart syndrome in the world followed by acute coronary problems. However, the same study found that broken heart syndrome was more likely to affect women, with case reports reaching 80 percent until the time of the study.
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