> acute stress of living in survival mode for a lifetime For some perspective, bone evidence of pre-Columbian Indians showed that they regularly suffered from

> acute stress of living in survival mode for a lifetime For some perspective, bone evidence of pre-Columbian Indians showed that they regularly suffered from famine. There was also the constant threat of warfare from neighboring tribes. The American colonists didn't fare much better, their bone evidence was one of extreme overwork and malnutrition.