What harm does greed cause to your health? person, but also his health. True, an important caveat needs to be made here: isolated short-term outbursts of this passion are not dangerous, especially if they end in the acquisition of what you want. Health problems arise from chronic, unsatisfied greed, when a person experiences a desire to acquire something for a long time, experiences greed, stinginess or envy. In this case, a person experiences all the signs of psychological stress, which can have a harmful effect on any organ or organ system of a person according to the “weak link” principle. In some people, the heart will suffer from repeated attacks of greed, in others - the gastrointestinal tract, in others - the endocrine system. Minsk doctor Nikolai Mikhailovich Sprudovsky believes that skin diseases are 5 times more likely to affect greedy and envious people than generous, open people. Heart attacks with misers and thrifters happen 6 times more often than with good-natured people. Strokes and hypertension are 3 times more likely to “visit” misers. Stomach ulcers, gastritis, and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are 4 times more common among greedy people and those who are afraid of losing their money. Among people suffering from schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease, there are three times more greedy individuals than among generous and kind people. Dr. N. Sprudovsky developed a special “greed test,” which contained 60 questions, and offered it to 250 people suffering from various ailments. If the subject answered positively to 40 or more test questions, then he was classified as “greedy.” The scientist then compared the test results with the patients' medical histories, and then conducted control studies of healthy people. As a result, it turned out that there is an undeniable connection between the tendency to experience feelings of greed and illness, or, as scientists say, a positive correlation. And vice versa - people who showed kindness, did not experience greed and rarely envied and rarely envied others, got sick much less often than their greedy antipodes. Human greed affects health in different ways: through psychosomatic connections between the cerebral cortex and internal organs, through disruption of the neuro-endocrine regulation of metabolism, and also indirectly through sleep and eating disorders. After all, if the desire to get more money or get a new position becomes an obsession, then it does not leave a person even at night. As a result, a person does not get enough sleep, and in the morning he feels tired and exhausted. In addition, greed often transforms into envy, irritation and anger, and this leads to an increase in the level of adrenaline and norepinephrine in the blood. These hormones have a harmful effect on the cardiovascular system and contribute to the development of hypertension, heart attacks and strokes. The situation is complicated by the fact that greedy people save on everything, including on medicines and qualified medical care, which also costs money. As a result, when the disease seriously affects a person and he finally goes to the doctor, it is already too late to regain lost health. My article “How to control greed” on this site - https://www.b17.ru/article/8001/ A small video "Psychology of greed" here: https://www.b17.ru/media/14669/