Likewise, through a process called “tenderness,” your immune protection system prevents disease by burning away the body’s heavy build-up of unwanted intruders, with stress the most powerful invading force.
Like a controlled burn growing into an uncontrollable wildfire, inflammation within the body can inadvertently fan its flames into something much bigger, much more dirty.
How Cortisol Inflames Nervousness
Chronic inflammation, especially within the brain, is a self-perpuating, very harmful body condition – the perfect petri-dish for anxiety to proliferate.
Wake Forest College from Medication professor Floyd Chilton, Ph.D. outlines the severity of the challenge within his 2005 bestselling publication “Pain Country.”