lemmy is one of the few platforms where i’m happy to see a post i’ve already seen months before
Yeah I think about stress everyday too. Not that I have a choice though.
I majored in stress working in retail
I work at an understaffed convenience store/fast food fusion. The amount of people who make their dogshit life choices my problem makes me look longingly at tall bridges.
I feel your pain, truly. Stay well fam.
Ah well, not the first time I’m fighting biology as a trans dude!
See? That’s why rich people are better!
Did we ever figure out why we evolved brains that produce cortisol?
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Also, humans are not machines, we need rest and relaxation. It’s debatable for why, but life would be a lot more boring if we didn’t have a need for relaxation, art, recreation, etc. Just pure work for survival.
Cortisol is actually a really important hormone and it can even make you feel good. The problem is when you have too much too often. It’s like putting your body and mind into sport mode. Very useful in the short term but unsustainable in the long term.
Because people who are born lucky enough to have an easy life are likely to have more kids.
Using cortisol to magnify that improves selection bias.
The rest is math.
Evolution is a bitch.
A successful organism would not have evolved to highly express cortisol to weed itself out in the case that it has a stressful life. It makes no sense for an organism to evolve a trait that makes it at best equally likely and at worst less likely to reproduce.
The reason we release excess cortisol in modern life is because our bodies did not evolve for constantly present stressors, they evolved to be stressed in a situation, run away from the tiger, and then you’re good.
Trump supporters are a minority, so I think this checks out.
/c/lostlemmies
That professor’s name? Robert Sapolsky.
(probably)
