Generally curious..
In: Biology
It’s forcing your organism to work over its regular 100% capacity – creating a debt: tissues that experience more activity than normal for them, and due to “material fatigue” suffer micro-injuries that must heal, toxins and metabolism products that must be removed and broken down at certain pace, and if you don’t give your body the time to get rid of them their accumulation starts poisoning you, supplies of all kinds of neurotransmitters, enzymes, other such reserves getting depleted and organs running without protections they may provide, body shutting down some, activating other functions in preparation of emergency for much longer than it’s healthy, staying alert and ready to react, losing sleep…
Short stress is a simple way to squeeze more out of the body than it can normally give, to deal with an emergency situation. Followed by rest, it allows replenishing all the supplies, repairing all the damage, cleaning up all the waste products accumulation, and no harm is done. But operating in stress for a long time causes massive wear&tear.
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