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Stress is an issue that I don’t think gets enough credit. Obesity, PFAS, all the other current top candidates are absolutely a part, but I think the stress of
by CobaltFire 4y ago
Stress is an issue that I don’t think gets enough credit.
Obesity, PFAS, all the other current top candidates are absolutely a part, but I think the stress of living under our economic/political system is causing a lot of this.
Stress causes inflammation, inflammation causes all kinds of issues. You can think of stress as an inverted proxy for wealth on a population level as well.
- fasteo 4y agoMore to this. Stress drives cortisol drives obesity. This is a well established pathway, at least for some people with increased glucocorticoid sensitivity.
- londons_explore 4y agoStress as a concept was only invented ~100 years ago. I do wonder if perhaps it wasn't our environment that suddenly became stressful (all your family at risk of dying of the plague has to be more stressful than missing a deadline set by your boss). Perhaps vulnerability to stress is caused by some other, as yet unidentified factor that suddenly became big around 1900?