Majiri Otobo from LuvMeandMy
In our day-to-day hustle and bustle, we
sometimes do not realise how dealing with, let’s call them life’s challenges,
affects both our mind and body. Being calm not only gives you peace, but also
triggers certain signals to your body allowing it to focus its energy on key
body functions.
Evidently our body is an amazing machine
designed by nature. Our buildings, jobs, cars, roads are all human construct
that have effected the way we interact with our environment. Our bodies were
designed for a world where there were potentially fewer things to be stressed
over with more disastrous consequences.
So a bit of traffic or your boss being a
bit of an @&£ would be significantly low on the stressor list in comparison
to becoming Mufasa’s lunch (Mufasa, THE Lion King ….for adults who no longer
use Disney references).
Survival would be the ultimate reason for
stress if we lived like the cavemen did. Our bodies, would therefore use
the bio-chemical signals of stress to make sure it stores as much energy in our
body as fat in order to prepare for the perceived threat of a “famine”.
Therefore when we are stressed our bodies make us fatter to protect us.
