Sickness From The Stress

By Staff

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 5:28

Ever wondered why people get sick when they"re stressed? Here is the medical way of answering the question.

A receptor known as QseE, which resides in the bacterium named E coli, which causes the . The receptor senses stress cues from the bacterium's host and helps the pathogen make the host ill. Chiefly epinephrine and phosphate are generally associated with blood poisoning, or sepsis.

Patients with high levels of phosphate in the intestine have a much higher probability of developing sepsis due to systemic infection by intestinal bacteria. There's obviously a lot of chemical signalling between host and bacteria going on and there will be a difficulty to find out which bacteria receptors recognize the host.

QseC recognizes the stress hormones, it initiates a cascade of genetic activations in which the bacteria colonizes the intestine and moves toxins into human cells, altering the makeup of the cells and robbing the body of nutrients. The bacteria get the nourishment and the person ends up getting diarrhoea.

Now, you can understand that stress is a double-edged sword. Stress signals are weakening your immune system and that leads the way for pathogens to exploit your immune system.

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