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Fear vs Immune system

The stress, the addiction & the spooky season

Scary movies & haunted houses - fun, know, anything that releases a flood of
but why? dopamine (from hard drug use, to seeing

Fight, flight, dopamine & more your favorite band live) can be addictive.

During the upcoming season of skeletons So what does all that matter to me?
and scares, we often seek out activities Some facts about stress that hit closer

that give us that little pop of adrenaline. to home.
We may be uncomfortable, but we always
know we’re safe. No worries right? Here are some facts about stress that

might make the paragraph above hit
This type of entertainment is actually home a bit harder:

highly addictive and dangerous. 1: The body cannot heal itself when in
Focusing on a stress-based high can do a fight or flight state. Stress will always
serious damage in the long term; to your be the body’s #1 priority. Issues like viral

physical body, mental functions, and infections or digestive distress are not
energy centers. key to survival. Therefore, the body will

re-allocate its energy and resources for
Our conscious brains understand the good of making it another day. Tell
that the fight or flight response is an your body to do this for a season, and

autonomic (automatic in the body) all those back-burner issues come to the
stress response to perceived danger. Our surface once the fight or flight state has

subconscious minds, however, define it relaxed. We know this phenomenon as
as “I’m going to die right now, I need to the common winter illnesses that seem
utilize every resource to survive”. When to last for weeks at a time. Tell your body

the body sees that it’s in no real danger, to do this for YEARS, and you start
it then releases a flood of dopamine to seeing cancer, dementia, and other states

calm the stress response and returns to a of “dis-ease” in younger and younger
long-term balanced wellness state. As we populations.

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