Stress And The Body

Stress affects the ENTIRE body. Chronic childhood stress can have a lasting, damaging effect on brain and body development because of the way stress disrupts normal body functions.

• Over 20 autoimmune disorders have been found to be directly correlated to having experienced chronic stress as a child.
  
• Chronic childhood stress can be the sole contributor to heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, and obesity.
  
• Chronic childhood stress can decrease a person's life by up to 20 years.
  
• The U.S. spends BILLIONS of dollars ($150+) annually to address the fallout from chronic childhood stress.

Head on over to Harvard's Center on the Developing Child at developingchild.harvard.edu to read their latest on how the brain connects to the rest of the body.  Here's a sneak peak: 

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/