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Stress Response Resilience

Meaning

Stress Response Resilience is the physiological and psychological capacity of an individual to effectively adapt to acute or chronic environmental, physical, or emotional stressors. This resilience allows the body to maintain or rapidly return to its state of homeostatic balance without incurring the long-term, detrimental health effects associated with chronic stress exposure. It is intrinsically dependent on the efficient, regulated function of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, the body’s central neuroendocrine stress system. High resilience is a key marker of robust hormonal and metabolic well-being.