How does the body respond to physical emotional and environm

How does the body respond to physical, emotional, and environmental stressors?

Solution

The body response to the stress remain the same if it physical, chemical, and environmental stress..

Nervous system..

When the body is stressed, the SNS producess the \"fight or flight\" response. The body shifts all of its energy resources toward fighting off a life threat, or fleeing from an enemy. The SNS signals the adrenal glands to release hormones called adrenalin and cortisol. These hormones cause the heart to beat faster, respiration rate to increase, blood vessels in the arms and legs to dilate, digestive process to change and glucose levels (sugar energy) in the bloodstream to increase to deal with the emergency.

The SNS response is fairly sudden in order to prepare the body to respond to an emergency situation or acute stress, short term stressors. Once the crisis is over, the body usually returns to the pre-emergency, unstressed state.

Endocrine..

When the body is stressed, the hypothalamus tells the autonomic nervous system and the pituitary gland and the process is started to produce epinephrine and cortisol, sometimes called the \"stress hormones.\"

Adrenal Glands (near kidneys)

Stress signals from the hypothalamus cause the adrenal cortex to produce cortisol and the adrenal medulla to produce epinephrine. This starts the process that gives your body the energy to run from danger.

Liver

When cortisol and epinephrine are released, the liver produces more glucose, a blood sugar that would give you the energy for \"fight or flight\" in an emergency

Even from the muscular side the muscles gets tensed up!!