Exercise Is Not The Right Way To Destress Says Research

Highly stressed out are you???

Today I came across this article on fertility related to stress and wanted to pool in some points for some of you who may not have read this..

Sarah.L.Berga has devoted her career to one of the most hotly debated subjects in the fertility business:
Getting pregnant without costly drugs, she and some of the scientists exploring how chronic stress may keep some women from ovulating and how relaxation techniques may help.

More precisely these researchers are examining how chronic stress alters brain signals to the hypothalamus, the walnut size organ that serves as the master of ceremonies overseeing the delicately timed hormonal dance. Or as Berga puts it she explores “How the hypothalamus talks to the pituitary that in turns talks to the ovary.

They say that research suggest that a cascade of events beginning with stress leads to reduced levels of two hormones crucial for ovulation. She is convinced that after she put the ladies through a 8month of cognitive behavioral therapy showed that ovulation was restored compared with two of eight who did not undergo this therapy.

Before this trial was done on human it was tested on monkeys who were stressed out stopped menstruating temporarily, when they were exercised and
limited the intake of food further 10 percent stopped menstruating temporarily. But when we combined stress, exercise and cut down on food 75% became amenorrhea.

They say that if your stressed when you start exercise, your body reacts differently than if you are not chronically stressed and exercise. Not only
Does it appear that exercise was more stressful for already stressed woman, and certainly exercise did not help them reduce their stress harmones.

Are we saying woman who are having stressful situation at work place tend to hurt her fertility? Isn’t life without stress impossible? We care talking about the chronic stress here.. the acute ones can be treated with some medication but the long stretch of situation leading to more and more of stress is becoming alarming in woman, so exercising will not help here, more of meditation and relaxation therapy needed, a very conjugal atmosphere needed to relax her mentally. In India a lot of family oriented problems are also on the rise with woman working and their financial status attracting a lot of responsibility on her shoulder which could be avoided if greed less prevailed. Water therapy is a great ..relief…Soak Away Your Stresses - Water Therapy

I have already mentioned swimming for pregnant woman in my other articles, kindly take more relaxation ways rather than exercise which was the motto earlier but this research says to guide your relaxation through music
Music Therapy, Stress, Stress Relief, stress management, Relaxation, holisticonline.com
Good Nutrition: How to Combat Stress with Good Nutrition

How to combat the stress here is another link for you all:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/mcrp611c.pdf

Started with a small article made me run all over to cover up a lot of links here to help you all with medical references…regards sunkan