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The frequently cited "stress" thing of modern lives is just eyebrows-raising. Do anyone actually believe that lives of people 100 or 200 years ago have been les
by anovikov 2y ago
The frequently cited "stress" thing of modern lives is just eyebrows-raising. Do anyone actually believe that lives of people 100 or 200 years ago have been less stressful?
- giantg2 2y agoIt's possible they had better support systems due to larger families, church being more prominent, etc.
- MrMcCall 2y agoAny form of positive community is helpful, religous or not. Just having caring neighbors is a boon to well-being.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoI think the idea is that the cells are stressed due to inflammation due to diet, rather than psychological feelings of stress
- anovikov 2y agoAverage "healthy" body temperature is down more than half degree exactly because of reduction in inflammation. People used to have very unsanitary lives and were fighting infections nonstop. 37.0C was the "normal" body temperature when the "norm" was first discovered in the early XIX century, now it's considered to be a sickness already.
- xeromal 2y agoI'm not an expert but maybe keeping the immuno-army busy with constant infections keeps it from going bored and attacking itself
- serf 2y agoalso not-an-expert opinion, but an average higher body temperature would reduce immune system workload by virtue of killing a lot of stuff dead via inhospitable environment before an immune reaction could ever muster..
- SamPatt 2y agoFascinating claim, where did you hear this?
- anovikov 2y agohttps://iiif.elifesciences.org/lax/49555%2Felife-49555-fig1-v2.tif/full/1500,/0/default.jpg https://iiif.elifesciences.org/lax/49555%2Felife-49555-fig1-...
- phkahler 2y agoWork is not the same as stress. People today (especially near the bottom of the ladder) are not in control of their own destiny like they used to be. It's a different kind of stress.
- victorbjorklund 2y agoSlaves were more on control of their own destinys than someone working an entry job today?
- anovikov 2y agoAnd they used to be more in control? Epidemics wiping out whole families? Gulags, concentration camps? Religious violence? Persistent threat of starvation death that was just the norm of life? One year of crop failures, and your kids are dead. Two years, and you are dead yourself. And it doesn't depend on you at all, just bad luck (if there was too much luck - like a generation without crop failures - population doubled, then just one year of crop failures meant you were dead). And yeah, the Church that keeps telling people that they were all sinners and will burn in hell, very comforting. Tell me about "control of one's own destiny".
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoI think there’s something to this. Life in those times was difficult and stressful, yes, but most hardships then were entirely beyond any individual’s control. To a large extent, good times and bad times would come and go regardless of what you did. Contrast this to the modern day where more often than not, hardships are attributed to personal failings (“You should’ve worked harder if you didn’t want to be stuck working abusive under-compensated jobs!”) and people perpetually teeter on the edge of a knife suspended over a bottomless pit. If anything goes wrong, it’s treated as nobody’s fault but your own, regardless of the reality of the situation. It’s almost a type of psychological torture.
- vjk800 2y agoPhysical activity gives an outlet to stress, and people used to get way more of it. Stress and physical effort are supposed to go hand-in-hand; you feel stressed, which gives you a boost of adrenaline, which you need to physically fight back whatever caused the stress. When the physical component is missing, the stress just lingers and wreaks havoc on your body.
- ta12653421 2y agowell, you may read & discuss this one? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_the_Middle_Ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_...