Why you MUST Succeed
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Pioneer Brain/Mind Researcher
© 2007 by Jill Ammon-Wexler

I received an email recently from a subscriber who was curious about the effect of stress on the brain. She asked for an explanation of how stress skills brain cells, and why brain cells don’t recover like the other cells in our body.

Here’s a shortened version of my response to her:
Whoever is telling you that stress does not kill brain cells is simply not up on the basics of brain physiology. Here’s an actual microscopic picture of brain cells dying under stress.

I know it may seem "unfair" that brain cells do not regenerate, but you must remember - the brain is a very complex organ that depends upon a maze of interconnections. When it is disrupted (as with a stroke), it seldom achieves total recovery. Your skin or muscle cells, on the other hand, are configured to constantly reproduce.

So, does stress kill brain cells?

The answer is yes. Stress ravages your brain. It causes the release of a hormone called cortisol. Giving rats daily injections of corticosterone (rat cortisol) for several weeks has been proven to absolutely kill their brain cells. And simply stressing the rats each day for the same amount of time has an identical effect.

Cortisol has been shown to damage and kill cells in the hippo-campus (the brain area responsible for memory) ... and there is also robust evidence that chronic stress causes premature brain aging.

Autopsies of persons suffering excessive chronic stress show significant reduction in the size of their hippocampus (up to 25% smaller). A high cortisol level also reduces the effectiveness of the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins to reach straight into your brain cells.

Without cortisol you would die, but too much of it is not a good thing. It makes your brain more vulnerable to damage from strokes and aging.

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