What does GAS stand for?

General Adaptation Syndrome

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This altered blood is insufficient for cell use and is causing "Cell Nutrient Starvation" which becomes a silent "Internal Stressor" that activates the "Shock Response" which triggers the General Adaptation Syndrome in a "Fight or Flight Stress Response", which resets the Internal Environment to abnormal levels.

Auto-Immune Disease and the Internal Shock Response to Nutrient ...

3) He noted that this pattern of symptoms could be explained by what he later defined as the general adaptation syndrome that consists of three stages: the alarm reaction, the stage of resistance, and the stage of exhaustion.

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The general adaptation syndrome and the diseases of adaptation.

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We must first look at the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) developed by Hans Selye.

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Selye defined stress as "the nonspecific response of the body to any demand" and described the stages of stress, called the general adaptation syndrome (GAS), in his book Stress Without Distress (1974).

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He referred to this as the general adaptation syndrome.

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The process that he labeled the General Adaptation Syndrome includes three stages: the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion.

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In a methodical attempt to bring the body back out of insufficient nutrient "Shock Stress", the General Adaptation Syndrome Stress Response would be to keep resetting the threshold higher for the Glucose levels in the blood.

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