Empowering Corporate Wellness: Do you have a Science-Based Approach to Sustainable Corporate Well-being?

Stress is how your body and mind react to new or difficult situations. It might be something short-term like worrying about a presentation you’re giving at work the next day. Or going to a party where you don’t know many people. It can also be something physical like an accident or illness.

You may have less immediate but more constant worries about things like money, a relationship or coping with the loss of someone close.

Stress-related disorders are more severe than stress.

Did you know that this stress can lead you to long-term physical illness below are a few sciences behind this.

• Stress & Diabetes (Type 2): Your body releases stress hormones like Cortisol and Adrenaline while you are stressed. These hormones give an energy boost for the ‘Fight or Flight’ response. These Hormones make it harder for Insulin to work properly which is called Insulin resistance. Thus, the blood sugar levels rise.?
• Stress & Autoimmune conditions (Graves’ disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Type 1 diabetes, Psoriasis, Multiple sclerosis etc): As the mystery of autoimmune illness continues, Health Harvard’s new study analysed more than 100,000 people diagnosed with stress-related disorders and compared their tendency to develop the autoimmune disease at least one year later with 126,000 of their siblings, and another million people who did not have stress-related disorders.The study found that individuals diagnosed with a stress-related disorder were more likely to be diagnosed with an autoimmune disease (about nine per 1,000 patient-years* who had stress-related disorders, but only about six per 1,000 patient-years among those without stress-related disorders) were more likely to develop multiple autoimmune diseases had a higher rate of autoimmune disease if younger.?
• Stress and Ageing skin: When you stress out, your body produces a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol breaks down collagen, which is a protein that helps keep your skin elastic and youthful looking. As cortisol levels increase, collagen levels decrease, and wrinkles form.
• Stress & Obesity: In the short term, stress can shut down appetite. The nervous system sends messages to the adrenal glands atop the kidneys to pump out the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenaline). Epinephrine helps trigger the body's fight-or-flight response, a revved-up physiological state that temporarily puts eating on hold. But if stress persists, it's a different story. The adrenal glands release another hormone called cortisol, and cortisol increases appetite and may also ramp up motivation in general, including the motivation to eat. Once a stressful episode is over, cortisol levels should fall, but if the stress doesn't go away — or if a person's stress response gets stuck in the "on" position — cortisol may stay elevated.
• Stress & Cancer: The connection between stress and cancer could be related to the body’s exposure to cortisol, the stress hormone. The body releases cortisol during stressful events, but levels usually decrease once the threat has passed. However, exposure to ongoing stressors can keep cortisol levels consistently high, which can wear down the body on a cellular level, according to the Harvard research team. They added that other studies have suggested this reaction may raise the risk of cancer or cause existing cancer to spread more rapidly.

Most of the medical claims you see on your corporate claims analysis report are related to the above medical conditions. Does your Corporate Wellness program address Workplace Stress?

Here is a quick tip to help yourself:

This Japanese Method releases Stress In 5 minutes - Source.

When you are feeling stressed, you should simply?apply pressure to the thumb for 30 seconds, release for 30 seconds?and?repeat until the feelings subside. You can rely on the same technique to other fingers if you have those feelings as well. You can go a step further to calm yourself by using pressure to the centre of the palm.

This isn’t just another feel-good method; it’s backed by Research . Studies show that this technique reduces stress in minutes and creates?positive thoughts ?and feelings. Not too bad for something that you can do in just a few spare minutes.

Go on, help yourself to destress.

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