Yeah I think about stress everyday too. Not that I have a choice though.
Stress
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
toofpic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I majored in stress working in retail
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I work at an understaffed convenience store/fast food fusion. The amount of people who make their dogshit life choices my problem makes me look longingly at tall bridges.
Zip2@feddit.uk 11 months ago
You have time to think? You and your luxuries!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Ah well, not the first time I’m fighting biology as a trans dude!
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Fighting biology sounds metal as hell, rock on dude! 🤘
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
See? That’s why rich people are better!
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Stress: The mind overriding the body’s natural desire to choke the ever-living fuck out of some asshole who desperately deserves it.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
lemmy is one of the few platforms where i’m happy to see a post i’ve already seen months before
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Some posts do deserve a reminder
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did we ever figure out why we evolved brains that produce cortisol?
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 11 months 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.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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.
dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com 11 months 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.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Lath@kbin.earth 11 months ago
Uh, poor people tend to have more children than rich people.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 11 months 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.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That professor’s name? Robert Sapolsky.
(probably)
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Hate it when university professors go for historical materialism
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Trump supporters are a minority, so I think this checks out.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
/c/lostlemmies
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I didn’t read the “in med school” part and was expecting the reveal to be that she actually took a material science course.
Wutchilli@feddit.de 11 months ago
I mean bones are also just fancy structures so …
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s biomechanics and the main thing you learn in it aside from statics and dynamics is that living osseous tissue is a strange material and it bends so much more than you think it should