{"id":69353,"date":"2025-11-14T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/allostatic-load-or-the-cost-of-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:14:14","slug":"allostatic-load-or-the-cost-of-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/allostatic-load-or-the-cost-of-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Allostatic Load or the Cost of Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cumulative physiological exhaustion of the body, which occurs as a result of chronic or repetitive stress, when the adaptive mechanisms (allostasis) of the body cease to cope with the load. A high level of allostatic load over time leads to poor health, reduced adaptive capacity and an increased risk of developing diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, immune disorders, metabolic disorders and depression. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cumulative physiological exhaustion of the body, which occurs as a result of chronic or repetitive stress, when the adaptive mechanisms (allostasis) of the body cease to cope with the load. A high level of allostatic load over time leads to poor health, reduced adaptive capacity and an increased risk of developing diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-health-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}