Have you, or anyone you know, ever made it through a stressful exam period and then gotten sick? Explain this phenomenon through the pertinent stress hormones
Animal research may explain why people often get through acute stress but fall ill afterward. Stress unleashes adrenaline-like hormones first, and these stimulate the immune system. Then the body releases cortisol, a hormone that battles inflammation but weakens immunity. For a while, both hormones are going full steam ahead. When the stress ends, the adrenaline hormones shut down first, leaving hormones that suppress immunity to hang around alone, and in these few days illness may take hold. Cortisol in particular lingers in the body and weakens the body's immune response.
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