Your Body's Response to Changing Conditions (Stress)

Your Body's Response to Changing Conditions (Stress)
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How do ANS and endocrine system work together to maintain homeostasis’s in terms of short term and long term stress?
The body responds to changing conditions like stress because it perceives it as a threat, that is why the body releases hormones to fight such responses. The autonomic nervous system is one of the nervous system components that control several activities in the body including muscle contraction, glandular functions and other important body functions (Landsberg & Krieger, 2014).
According to Landsberg & Krieger, (2014), both the autonomic nervous and the endocrine system are connected by the hypothalamus responsible for stimulating important body functions. The nervous system responds to stimulus faster but cannot last long. Endocrine system also responds to stimuli by producing hormones within the circulatory system that last longer. The autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system work together to maintain stable internal body processes through homeostasis and ensuring that the body adapts to external events. The autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system work towards bringing such adaptation using different response patterns. Both systems use chemical messengers to send signals to specific cells but at different speed (Lovallo, 2015).
The ANS through the nervous system responds rapidly to stimuli sending signal for potential action to target cells .even though the responses are instant the effect do not last long. The endocrine system generates responses to the target calls but responds slowly. In response to short-term stress, the endocrine hormones ensures that the body internal body functions are stable while the autonomic nervous system counter stress-induced disruption of the homeostasis by stimulating the increase of energy levels to prepare the body for physical ...