the role of stress on body response

Stress is your body's normal response to danger. When you experience stress, your body reacts by giving a quick boost of energy from sugar, allowing you to “fight or take flight” and get out of danger. Everyone's blood sugar goes up when they’re under stress, 

"Stress isn’t all bad," says Dinamarie C. Garcia-Banigan, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist and diabetes specialist at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. "A little stress can help you use energy and improve concentration. But too much stress and type 2 diabetes can be a bad combination,” she says. “That's why stress management is an important part of managing type 2 diabetes."