Written By: Kinkini Gupta | Updated: December 1, 2022, 10:15 AM
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Our health is not just affected by what we consume. Our emotions have a huge influence on it as well. Studies have linked certain emotions with specific organs of our body like, anger can negatively impact our liver, stress can impact our heart and brain, the feeling of fear can impacts our kidneys and there are more to follow.
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Anger can cause resentment and irritability. It is linked with choleric humor. This emption is apparently stored in our gall bladder and liver. Too much anger can cause headaches and hypertension. This can impact the liver, stomach and spleen.
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When people are sad, they breathe in less oxygen. This decreases the required amount in the body and can affect the lungs.
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Long-term or excessive fear of psychological changes can easily damage the kidneys resulting in changes in the neuroendocrine-immune system. This could increase the susceptibility to other diseases.
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Stress has major impacts on both our brain and heart. If a person is constantly stressed, it could increase the risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Stress triggers the distress signal to our hypothalamus. The hypothalamus then communicates the signal to the rest of the body making it ready for fight or flight. Other than that, stress can also lead to the increase in inflammation in the body; it can increase the blood pressure and lower the levels of good cholesterol.
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There must have been times when you felt nauseous when you were nervous or worried? When a person experiences these intense emotions, our gut motility can get impacted by the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the body.
