6 WAYS ANGER CAN AFFECT YOUR HEALTH

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Anger is a normal emotion, but it’s one which can lead to serious damage if care isn’t taken. Just as an outburst of anger can be dangerous to your health, holding in your anger can also cause serious health risk.

Do you get angry easily? You might just be causing harm to your health in the following ways:

1. IT CAN WEAKEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

A research carried out by scientists from Harvard University on healthy people found that simply recalling a past angry experience caused a six-hour dip in levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A.

Your immune system is your body’s natural defence against disease-causing microorganisms. This means a weakened immune system would leave you easily susceptible to sickness and diseases.

2. YOUR STATE OF MIND

Obviously, anger can affect your state of mind and researchers have found proof of that too.

Researchers induced anger in 30 men, and before and after the research, they measured the men’s heart rate, cortisol and testosterone levels, arterial tension and the asymmetric activation of the brain.

The researchers found that anger provoked profound changes in the state of mind of the subjects.

3. ANGER CAN AFFECT YOUR LUNGS

If you thought that only smoking can affect the lungs then you need to take this serious.

A group of researchers from Harvard University studied 680 over a period of eight years. They used a hostility scale scoring method to measure the men’s anger levels and whether it had any effect on their lungs. Surprisingly, the men with the highest hostility ratings significantly had a worse lung capacity.

4. ANGER CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEART

A study from Washington University found that people over the age of 50 who expressed their anger by lashing out are more likely to have calcium deposits in their coronary artery — and this is a huge indication that you have a high risk of getting a heart attack.

5. ANGER CAN SHORTEN YOUR LIFE SPAN

Who wouldn’t want to live a long life?

According to a University of Michigan study done over a 17 year period, it found that couples who hold in their anger have a shorter lifespan even more than those who voice it out.

Surely, the saying that happy people live longer lives is actually true.

6. IT INCREASES THE RISK OF STROKE

Anger can also increase the risk of stroke. According to a research, during two hours of an angry outburst, there was a three times higher risk of having a stroke from a blood clot to the brain or bleeding within the brain.

 

Your emotions can trigger your genes to either gain health or make it prone to sickness. This is why anger management is really important.

S.O.Z 

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