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Your body's ancient refund policy: no returns, just adrenaline and bad decisions.
means The automatic burst of physiological arousal — racing heart, surging adrenaline, narrowed focus — that primes you to either confront a threat or flee it.
from Coined as 'fight-or-flight' in the early 20th century by physiologist Walter Cannon, who studied how the body's sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands respond to danger. He described the cascade of adrenaline, quickened pulse, and redirected blood flow as an ancient survival mechanism — one built for escaping predators, now firing off just as readily over emails and deadlines.
- actual order
- freeze comes first, the researchers just skipped it
- origin
- coined 1915 by physiologist Walter Cannon
- culprit gland
- adrenal medulla dumps adrenaline in seconds
- modern mismatch
- triggered by emails, built for lions