The Effect Of Physiologic Stress On The Immune System

There is a huge impact on the immune system when stress occurs. Physiologic stress is a chemical or physical disturbance produced by change in the external environment or within the body that brings out a response to offset that disturbance. Three components of physiologic stress include the exogenous or endogenous stressor initiating the disturbance, the chemical or physical disturbance produced by stressor and the body’s counteracting adaptation response to disturbance. Stressors include pain, trauma, and malnutrition along with responses from experiences in life like anxiety and fear that induce times of stress. When the human body becomes stressed it uses physiological responses to prepare body to deal with stressors in order to†¦show more content†¦Cancers are caused by environmental lifestyle and genetic factors. One environmental risk for cancer is chemicals and occupational hazards as Carcinogens. Exposure to chemicals occurs everyday and is present in air, soil, food, water, household products, toys, personal care products, workplaces and homes. There have been a significant percentage of cancers in the upper respiratory passages, lungs and bladder. The manufactures of dyes, rubber, paint, and aromatic amines like B-naphthylamine and benzidine, have been linked with carcinoma of the bladder. Benzol inhalation is linked to leukemia in shoemakers or workers that are around rubber cement, explosives and dyeing industries. Air pollution is Carcinogenic, which puts everyone in the environment at risk for cancer especially those that live near these certain industries. Another environmental factor is Radon which is a natural radioactive gas resulting from radioactive decay of uranium in rock and soil. It can get trapped in houses and form radioactive decay products that are carcinogenic people. Bronchogenic is the most common form of lung cancer that’s associated with radon. Underground miners risk is increased for lung cancer since exposed to more radon even if they don’t smoke. Houses can get tested and modified to prevent any more radon contamination. Cancer can also put a person at risk if