The more you get angry or even the more often you get angry, the worse the effects on your body’s health. Often anger is something that comes and goes. But then there are various shades of anger which come in the form of irritation, palpable excitement resulting from depression and many other forms of insidious anger. If your anger persists for days at a stretch, one’s vitality can actually be reduced considerably.

Several ailments may also result from anger. These can even go on to include cancer, in addition to pulmonary disease, depression, stroke, blood and breathing problems and general anxiety. Immunity as a whole is often affected, with angry people being prone to whole lot ‘smaller’ manifestations like pains, colds, bouts of flu, aches, etc. Plus, anger can often lead to the picking up of bad habits like smoking and drinking, or to other kinds of compulsive behavior, making life difficult for angry people as well as those around them.

More potent than any drug or chemical reaction, anger takes over your mental and physical health and peace, and can have wide ranging effects on various parts of your body such as those that follow.

Muscles

Anger creates a fight or flight reaction in the body, leading to the contraction of muscles. When this happens too often, the result can be spasms, tightness and pain in the muscles, and overuse of muscle relaxants, which lead a whole host of other complications.

The Gastrointestinal Tract

With more than 70% of the immune-system in the human body being located here, along with the important function of absorbing and utilizing food, the GI tract is affected by anger. It is also here that anger first strikes, creating havoc with digestion, leading to too much acid-formation and retention and causing ulcers, diarrhea/constipation, cramping, acid-reflux, etc.

Abdomen:

Anger can directly affect the amount of fat deposits in the abdominal area, in addition to increasing stomach-acidity. This is not merely because people who get angry rely on fatty and sugary comfort foods and thus put on weight, but also because anger releases great quantities of cortisol. Also known as the stress hormone, cortisol can lead to weight gain, especially in women because of the body’s hormonal make-up.

When you are stressed, angry or frustrated, your blood pressure and immune system gets stressed due to changes in body-chemistry and stress levels. While this will usually not result in any personality disorder, prolonged anger can bring down your vitality levels significantly. What is important is how you handle your stress and anger. While some people get ill as a result of anger, some others are completely unaffected by it, even though there will be stimuli that induce them to anger as well. The crucial thing is your ability and manner of dealing with it. While part of that is genetic, you can train and modify your body to react in less harmful ways. Meditating or other relaxing techniques, as well as any physical training are usually effective ways of managing your anger.

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Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
Keywords: Abdomen,Gastrointestinal Tract,Muscles,Anger