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Article: Fight, flight, or phantom fatigue?(modern lifestyle)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Human history has seen the slow relentless migration from a physically demanding but simpler way of life to a hot-wired, high-stakes game of mental challenge and response that is played at breakneck speeds. For many of us, this has become daily life in the United States, and it seems to be making us sick.
We are only now beginning to understand the mysterious and dangerous effects of modern life upon human health. We have found that these effects are mediated primarily by a pair of tiny glands that ride upon our kidneys.
The adrenal glands are the body's center for action in response to stimuli such as fear, anger, surprise, excitement, emotional ...