Our bodies have two modus operandi when it comes to the nervous system: parasympathetic one (aka relax and digest and heal one may add...) and the sympathetic one (flight, fight, or freeze). Both have an important role to apply and we would not be around as species today had it not been for our ability to run from danger. Thus, stress by itself is not bad and actually very much needed. But a chronic, everyday stress - that’s another story.

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