Title: 5 Things That Happen To Your Body When You Lose Someone Close To You
Headings: 5 Ways Your Body Experiences Grief
5 Ways Your Body Experiences Grief
1. Heartache is real.
2. Grief can compromise the immune systems of older people.
3. Sleeplessness.
4. Grief can impact cognitive functioning.
5. Grief can mess with your appetite.

Content: Dr. M. Katherine Shear, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, told Everyday Health that grief “can interfere with the ability to think clearly, to make decisions and judgments, and problem solve.” A 2010 study also found that grief can cause lowered memory performance. 5. Grief can mess with your appetite. According to Dr. Wendy Trubow, writing for the Huffington Post, the stress of grief can have different effects on your appetite, depending on where you are in the grieving process. She says that long-term grief can increase people’s appetites, but that short-term, or acute, grief can turn one’s appetite off. When experiencing acute stress, our bodies go into fight-or-flight mode and shut down our digestive systems, so as to save energy to fight or run away. The length of time that someone is in this acute phase of stress varies from person to person, but it can eventually turn into chronic stress, which is detrimental to health in general. Images: Pixabay;