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Inner Potential Ability To Handle Stress

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Based on your genetics, your genetic predisposition for Ability To Handle Stress is

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High

What does this mean?

Likely to have higher capacity to cope with stress, as your genotype is associated with higher COMT activity and decreased levels of dopamine in brain. Your genotype is associated with higher COMT activity, decreased levels of dopamine in the brain and likely to have a higher capacity to cope with stress.

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How Is Your Genetic Risk Calculated?

This result is based on the SNPs(single nucleotide polymorphism)that are associated with Ability To Handle Stress.

Genes
Your Genotype
What it means?
Genes: COMT
Your Genotype: GG
What it means? Better stress resiliency
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Limitations

This report does not diagnose any health conditions or provide medical advice. This should not be used as a diagnostic tool.
This result is limited to existing scientific research.
Please consult with a healthcare professional before making any major lifestyle changes or if you have any other concerns about your results.

What is Ability To Handle Stress?

Stress is your body's way of reacting to certain triggers or changes in your life. Why do some people thrive under stress and life challenges, while the others succumb to negative thought and emotions? People who are under stress and unable to cope well will likely to have hard time controlling their emotions, difficulty in focus on tasks, cooperate with others and form healthy relationship with others. Studies show that genetic predisposition could be one of the factors influencing our ability to handle stress. Functional variation in COMT gene, an enzyme that metabolizes dopamine, has been associated to the variation in enzymatic activity and stress responses.

How It Affects Your Body

Stress can be categorised into 3 stages: initial alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

In the first stage, Initial Alarm, adrenaline is produced in an individual___s body, which allows the person to either respond or hold back during the event (fight-or-flight response). Meanwhile, the Resistance stage is a short-term resistance mechanism that your body has set up to cope with the problem. If there is no response, the body forms a mechanism that learns to cope with the event, rather than resolve the situation.

Finally, the final stage is the stage of exhaustion, where your body has used up all of its resources to cope with the stress. After that, your body will undergo lethargic conditions and can no longer behave in the manner that it used to. This is where you will see the first symptoms of stress.

If the situation is not taken care of, stress can deal long term damages to the body and the immune system.

Other Effects of Stress

Stress is also told to be linked with nutritional insufficiency, as it can cause unhealthy eating habits.

Stress can develop poor eating habits such as occasional consumption of fast-food, forgetting or skipping meals, increased coffee (caffeine) intake and constantly picking at food. Consuming too much junk food actually increases the volume of stress on your body.

Besides, a person who is stressed may opt for high sugars and fats content food too. Moreover, a person may put on weight due to the amount of cortisol (stress hormone) produced; which in turn, leads to a high amount of consumption of fatty food.

Symptoms

Suggested Lifestyle Changes

Dietary Recommendations:

  1. Consume a healthy and balanced diet. Well-nourished bodies are better prepared to cope with stress, so be mindful of what you eat. Start your day right with breakfast, and keep your energy up and your mind clear with balanced, nutritious meals throughout the day.
  2. Magnesium is helpful in muscle relaxation and making new cells. It is recommended to consume sufficient amounts of magnesium content food which include green-leafy vegetables (e.g. cabbage), fish, meats and dairy products.
  3. Dietary antioxidants present in fruits (e.g. orange and strawberry) and vegetables (e.g. kale and red cabbage) may improve cognitive functions and lower the cortisol level.

Lifestyle Recommendations:

  1. Our ability to adapt to stress can be nurtured through prenatal, early and later life experiences. Stress is not uniformly negative for everyone. Mistakes, failures and challenges are opportunities to learn and build resources for coping with future negative events.
  2. Express your feelings instead of bottling them up. If something or someone is bothering you, be more assertive and communicate your concerns in an open and respectful way. If youve got an exam to study for and your chatty roommate just got home, say upfront that you only have five minutes to talk. If you dont voice your feelings, resentment will build and the stress will increase.
  3. Set aside in leisure time. Include rest and relaxation in your daily schedule. This is your time to take a break from all responsibilities and recharge your batteries. Do something you enjoy every day. Make time for leisure activities that bring you joy, whether it be stargazing, playing the piano, or working on your bike.
  4. Get enough sleep. Adequate sleep fuels your mind, as well as your body. Feeling tired will increase your stress because it may cause you to think irrationally.

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