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Article: Stress creates havoc on the body
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- New Straits Times
- Article date:
- January 15, 1998
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Deepak Chopra
New Straits Times
01-15-1998
FOR more than 50 years, physiologists have known that putting stress
on an animal causes it to age very quickly. When you place a mouse on an
electric grid and administer shocks to it, you need not raise the shocks
to a lethal level to kill the mouse.
Simply by giving very mild shocks at random intervals, you will arouse
the mouse's stress response. Each time this happens, its body breaks down
a little bit. After a few days of such stress, the mouse will die, and
on autopsy, its tissues will display many signs of accelerated ageing.
Since the shocks themselves were mild, the cause of death was not the external
stress but the mouse's reaction - it ...