Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Stress is the body’s natural response to situations that threaten it and that affects the emotional and physical stability. It’s a way to keep the body alert.

Although stress is a positive function in humans, which is to create a state of attention and prompt response to adversity, experience in a sustained and intense can affect our physical and emotional. It is therefore necessary to learn to channel it and make the best match.

In a situation of prolonged stress, the body’s response is through tiredness, fatigue or sickly. The skin reacts to the state showing no color, with signs of fatigue and premature aging.

Our skin experiencing stress in two ways: from within the body due to disease, poor nutrition, stress caused by work or family and without, due to environmental pollution, noise or work a long time in places closed.
Stress is reflected in the skin (Part I)

We may suffer stress without realizing it, as it is manifested in various ways, such as lack of appetite, difficulty sleeping, muscle stiffness, lack of sexual appetite or mood swings. But the symptoms vary according to skin type.

Stress manifests itself mainly in scaling, burning and itching of the skin, for this type of problem it is advisable to apply soothing cream for sensitive skin. When the skin is “off” and with a tone that gives a sickly appearance, may be due to contamination or lack of hydration. Restorative creams should be applied day and night.

How does it affect your skin?

According to the journal of aesthetics “Les Nouvelles Esthetique,” the 10 biggest effects of stress on your skin are: acne, eczema, psoriasis, itching, hair loss, excessive sweating, rosacea, dandruff, herpes and oral urticaria. Besides stress contributes to the skin to lose its brightness and look lifeless.

Stress can also cause other conditions affecting the skin and lack of sleep, over-eating, smoking, drinking, and others.

Stress causes hormonal imbalances. When something causes us stress, the body reacts by producing hormones with different objectives, these hormones: cortisol and adrenaline. The excess of these hormones causes imbalance in estrogen and testosterone in the body and these hormones affect the skin directly.