Healthy/Unhealthy Chain Reactions

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In healthy chain reactions, adrenaline boosts to energy benefited our forebears to face danger. Today, whether threats are physical or psychological, stress responses prepare the body to react to actual or perceived danger and deal with stressors. In unhealthy chain reactions, repeated, long-term activation of stress responses contribute to high-blood pressure, artery-clogging deposits, brain changes, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Chronic stress contributes to obesity from eating, sleeping, exercising behaviors.

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