Stress — Prolonged stress or prolonged periods of stress trigger the «fight or
flight mechanism which causes a series of changes in hormone levels and can fluctuate blood sugar levels,
Not exact matches
Once you reach this point, you've essentially overcome your fear of change,
which shows up to cloak our «fight or
flight»
mechanism.
Their fight or
flight mechanisms, and one might add their «fright» reactions,
which we now know are built into their very DNA, do indeed seem to imply that a certain degree and type of suffering seems also to be built in.
One of the signal results of toxic - stress exposure is a hyperactive fight - or -
flight mechanism,
which can be a valuable asset in a violent home or neighborhood but is much less helpful during a seventh - grade history lesson.
«Our work introduces a design scheme to mimic the key
flight mechanisms of biological bats,» said Chung, who is also a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
which Caltech manages for NASA.
In a life - threatening situation, the brain launches into «fight - or -
flight,» a rapid and instinctive survival
mechanism during
which cortisol travels to the brain to dampen the initial response.
«These post-flight changes were somewhat less than expected based on short - duration
flights and early reports of long - duration missions and suggest that the current countermeasures on the ISS,
which include exercise training, are keeping cardiovascular control
mechanisms well prepared for return to Earth,» the authors say.
Hyper extension in the thoracic spine exerts pressure on posterior mediastinum - a part of the thorax
which when pressured creates an increase in the sympathetic tone of the autonomic nervous system (responsible for the fight or
flight mechanism)- this is not a good thing.
For example let's take fight or
flight,
which is an inherent survival
mechanism.
The fight or
flight, or stress response is something we are all familiar with subjectively when we get a fright, and is clearly a helpful survival
mechanism which has been passed down to us from the days when our ancestors lived in far more dangerous environments.
The
flight mechanism is bound to increase * the burning up of the body calories
which greatly minimize the presence of excess calories thus checking the deposition of fats.
As a result, many of us often exist in a constant state of stress, or our «fight or
flight» mode,
which is our body's survival
mechanism to cope with oncoming dangers (except nowadays, our form of danger is a scathing email from a boss or a client!)
Caffeine (in all forms) adds to cortisol hormone that I mentioned earlier — the «fight or
flight» response,
which is released in reaction to fear or stress by the adrenal glands as part of the fight - or -
flight mechanism.
Cats and dogs may view the bird as prey, in
which case you'll want your bird to use its natural defense
mechanism of
flight to escape harm.