Chronic Stress Does Its Damage By

question 30

Multiple Choice

Chronic stress does its damage by:

• A) prompting harmful recalibration of the body's healthy 'set points' or 'factory settings' for regulating things like blood glucose.
• B) decoupling (dysregulating) the cerebrospinal and musculo-glucose systems.
• C) increasing resilience.
• D) moving fat from the gut to the rump and thighs, and so increasing the waist-to-hip ratio.
• E) decreasing the allostatic index.

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