Do you hate Monday? So is your body.
no way New study In the University of Hong Kong, the elderly, who were unstable on Monday, found that 23% of stress hormone cortisols in the body had a stress hormone cortisol 23% higher than those who reported anxiety two months later.
And on Monday, certain stress can be quietly damaged, regardless of age, occupation, or everyday, experts say.
The study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, analyzed data of adults over 3,500 people over 50 years old in the UK. Participants first reported how uneasy and the day of the week happened. After 1 to 2 months, the researchers collected hair samples and measured cortisol. It is a marker about how many stresses are over time.
Cortisol helps humans keep warning and respond to threats. Too high It can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of heart disease, anxiety and other chronic problems.
Monday anxiety was the only day related to the continuous cortisol spike because it felt “uncertainty, risk or fear,” a professor at Columbia Business School, a professor at Columbia Business School, who studies stress and achievements.
This effect also appeared in retirees. The stress of Monday is a sign that it can leave continuous imprints in the brain and body.
The stress response is partially psychological by our expectations, but weekend sleep, meals and activities can also abandon the internal clock of the body and get worse on Monday morning. Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurological scientist of Stanford University, studied stress.
“Cortisol is not only reactive but also a lot of things.” The expectation for stress can be much higher than the stress itself.
Akinola makes Monday more difficult on Monday with responsibility from weekends to weekdays.
Akinola said, “There are things you try on Monday. You need to get up, dress, focus, and deal with traffic. And the body’s stress system is preparing to fight you. “
Stress accumulation can help you explain why your heart attack is more common on Monday. This is a pattern recorded in previous studies that start a week of cardiovascular risk.
Sapolsky said that this repetitive psychological tension, especially the types of built -in daily life, can gradually wear the body and make it more vulnerable to long -term health risks.
Akinola recommends weekly “stress inventory”. This finds a fear before the body is in combat or flight mode.
“People don’t realize that people are generally stressed, and there’s no clearness of what emphasizes and how the body can react,” Akinola said. “Every day or weekly stress inventory … Stress will help you move to the best of your mind in the background noise, and if this happens, you can actually control.”
