What Your Body Does to Adapt To an Acute Stressor
One of the hallmarks of the stress-response is the rapid mobilization of energy from storage sites and the inhibition of further storage. (Location 282)
⇒ Stress-Response
- During Stress, growth and tissue repair is curtailed, sexual drive decreases in both sexes; females are less likely to ovulate or to carry pregnancies to term, while males begin to have trouble with erections and secrete less Testosterone. (Location 292)
- With sufficiently sustained stress, our perception of pain can become blunted. (Location 299)
- It is not so much that the stress-response runs out, but rather, with sufficient activation, that the stress-response can become more damaging than the stressor itself, especially when the stress is purely psychological. (Location 323)
- It is never really the case that stress makes you sick, or even increases your risk of being sick. ==Stress increases your risk of getting diseases that make you sick==, or if you have such a disease, stress increases the risk of your defenses being overwhelmed by the disease. (Location 387)
- if you want to increase your chances of avoiding stress-related diseases, make sure you don’t inadvertently allow yourself to be born poor. (Location 415)
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