TED-Stress

Your adrenal gland releases the following stress hormone(s):

• Cortisol

• Noradrenaline

• Adrenaline

• All of the above

Stress can increase your risk of a heart attack or stroke by all of the following except:

• Raising your blood pressure

• Slowing your heart rate

• Making the lining of your blood vessels more susceptible to damage

• Increasing inflammation in your blood vessels

Through the enteric nervous system, stress causes:

• A change in the composition and function of gut bacteria

• Decreased sensitivity to stomach acid

• Food allergies

• Iron deficiency

How does cortisol add to belly fat?

• It increases your appetite

• It slows your metabolism

• It causes cravings for carbohydrates, or "comfort foods"

• A and C

Telomeres, the shoelace tip ends on chromosomes:

• Scramble DNA when a cell divides

• Can be shortened by stress

• Lengthen with each cell division

• Can be replenished when they become too short