The stress response of the body is meant to protect you, but sometimes it works against you.  The stress response is a response to danger, with two distinct phases.  The first of these is the famous “flight-or-fight” response.  Your brain perceives a threat—a lion crouched in the brush—and sends a message down the spinal cord to the medulla, or core, of the adrenal glands, signaling it to pump out adrenaline.  In a matter of seconds, the body is transformed.

To prepare for exertion, blood pressure and heart rate skyrocket; the liver pours out glucose and calls up fat reserves to be processed into triglycerides for energy;  the circulatory system diverts blood from nonessential functions, such as digestion, to the brain and muscles.  This is precisely what you need if your goal is to survive the next 10 minutes.

Civilization, however, gives you the opportunity to experience an adrenaline rush at every traffic light.  And since all you’re doing is sitting in your car, the elaborate preparations your body makes are wasted.  Worse than wasted:  every heartbeat at elevated blood pressure takes its toll on the arteries.  The excess fats and glucose don’t get metabolized right away, so they stay in the blood stream.

The fats contribute to the plaques that form inside blood vessels, which can lead to heart disease or strokes; high levels of glucose are a step in the direction of diabetes.  Stress is truly a killer.

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