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Re: stress, brains and cortisol » orchid

Posted by rainbowbrite on September 18, 2005, at 21:23:39

In reply to Re: stress, brains and cortisol » rainbowbrite, posted by orchid on September 18, 2005, at 21:15:27

> > > > one would expect that our bodies would protect us, and during high stress we would function at an improved level.
>
> > yeah thats what I mean, intense stress. The times when you really can't afford to shutdown, it seems to contradict my logic.
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> -- Actually bodies do function at a higher level when stress is there - but usually physically rather than mentally. That is how our brains are designed - to enable us to run rather than to think when there is a stress. Brains perceive all stress as external physical threat at some level - kind of from an evolutionary point of view.
>

Makes sense

do you know if that feeling of dizziness and headache is the cortisol rush?

 

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