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Termyn8or -> RE: Can we survive the madding crowd ? (9/29/2008 9:28:58 AM)
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Hunk, adrenalin is a hormone in the body. It tends to increase the metabolic rate and operates mainly in a "fight or flight" situation, but not only that. There is a small amount of adrenalin flowing most of the time, but when the organism is threatened the levels climb. Extreme levels of adrenalin can cause people, as long as their body can support it, to have seemingly superhuman strength.
We've heard the stories about the Grandmother who lifted a car off the kid, things like that. Whether substantiated or not, we know things like this happen. The fact is you are about five to ten times as strong as you think you are. When you fall oin the ground for example, your muscle tense to around five times what you could do conciously, to protect the skeletal structure.
Adrenalin allows the organism to use this extra stength, as well as what could be termed second wind. Adrenalin puts one on a higher physical plane, and also enables one to ignore physical pain.
Adrenalin production increases with stress, any kind of stress. If this is not used to fight physically, it still serves to speed up the metabolism. When this happens, essential nutrients and minerals are used up more quickly in the body.
The melding of body and mind, along with percieved pressures encourage this, and that could explain the early deaths. Just the fact that there are too many others there does it, the organism anticipates problems, and tries to prepare by virtue of simple self preservation. Humans call it being nervous.
And kit, I must commend you for not railing against the article. In another forum, one that is private and industry specific to my work, one did. They found the article racist etc. and said so. I don't agree, he called it sophistry, and useless. He basically threw the baby out with the bathwater, you seem to see that it was written thirty years ago and things were different. However discarding it completely is wrong, because it is unlikely that many more studies will be performed on the subject, as long as the PTB see us as a unit of livestock, or a ledger entry. They care not under the conditions we live, all the care about is the conditions under which they live. Things were different thirty years ago. Even then, I really doubt these studies were government financed.
T
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