The matter of a stressed brain and impact on your body should be treated with far more seriousness than it seems to be in our hyped up society.

Day in and day out, just the daily chores of living seem to create more and more impact to human bodies that have evolved to handle just so much of it before they begin to suffer the ill effects of the condition. Hence a stressed brain needs the holistic health care approach.

Putting yourself under the pump is a cumulative thing, generally speaking. It is the result of a myriad of little things that pile up into big things.

An example would be of all the aggravating factors that piled up during the day and then a bunch of little things that might go wrong during the night. Result a stressed brain. These things, taken as a whole, can hit your body hard; even to the point of affecting its ability to learn and to utilize its memory capacity efficiently.

People who suffer from chronic exhausting levels-- and who haven't learned how to do certain things to mitigate this -- are subjecting themselves to a literal overdose of extremely powerful hormones (usually referred to as "stress hormones") that are normally only intended for very brief periods of time in emergency situations. This is sometimes known as the "fight or flight response." Subjecting the body to this response on a constant basis is not a good thing.

The way the body triggers these hormones is through what medical professionals called the parasympathetic response. And while some forms of tension are actually good for us, it is generally the rule that long-term exposure to stress has nothing to recommend it in the least.

Recent studies have shown that people put under constant tension tend not to be able to learn things the same way that people who aren't constantly being bombarded by these hormones can learn.

For the most part, the human body has evolved to the point where it can handle around a half minute of exposure to stress hormones with no serious side effects. Anything longer than that, though, and long-term issues can begin to develop.

This is a direct result of our inability to escape the fight or flight response. We, as thinking creatures, evolved with certain faculties that enabled us to know when to stand and fight or when to get up and flee. In prehistoric times, we ran from a predator cat such as a saber tooth and the stress response would soon be over.

However, in this day and age, we are bombarded with at seemingly every point. We have bosses who just won't let up or we are stuck in huge traffic jams that never seem to end.

All of this stress can damage just about every kind of thinking or motor-neural ability that we have. Known as cognition, this can limit the human body's ability to properly memorize or store events into the brain’s memory banks and it can also impact our immune response.

This means that as we experience greater levels of unwanted tension, our body's ability to fight off disease or illness becomes compromised.

In chronic cases where this is a constant presence in the life of a person, studies have shown a person undergoing such tension is 50% more likely to suffer memory issues and has a one in two chance of developing some form of depression and ill health. There are steps we can take, fortunately, to help mitigate the effects of such stressors on our body.

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