Comment on Stress

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I think the real answer is that it plays an important role in making sure you respond appropriately to being chased by a tiger. For hundreds of thousands of years it was perfectly fine operating in that role, and then in the last ten thousand we accidentally created a civilization where some people get way too much of it.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Also, humans are not machines, we need rest and relaxation. It’s debatable for why, but life would be a lot more boring if we didn’t have a need for relaxation, art, recreation, etc. Just pure work for survival.

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• dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Cortisol is actually a really important hormone and it can even make you feel good. The problem is when you have too much too often. It’s like putting your body and mind into sport mode. Very useful in the short term but unsustainable in the long term.

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• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because people who are born lucky enough to have an easy life are likely to have more kids.

  Using cortisol to magnify that improves selection bias.

  The rest is math.

  Evolution is a bitch.

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  • Lath@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Uh, poor people tend to have more children than rich people.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That’s only a recent thing though

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      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        what does “recent” mean? Poor folks been having shit tons of kids for a long ass time. THey needed to have a) extra workers, and b) a chance at keeping the family name/heritage/culture/whatever going. especialyl being poor, you know at least 3 or your 10 arent going to make it, so you gotta play the odds!

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    • Talia@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Immagine what it could be if the cortisol mechanism didn’t work

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      • Lath@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Not us, that's for sure.

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  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    A successful organism would not have evolved to highly express cortisol to weed itself out in the case that it has a stressful life. It makes no sense for an organism to evolve a trait that makes it at best equally likely and at worst less likely to reproduce.

    The reason we release excess cortisol in modern life is because our bodies did not evolve for constantly present stressors, they evolved to be stressed in a situation, run away from the tiger, and then you’re good.

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