Why Has Stress Become the Malady of the Modern Age?

It is thought that around 80% of visits to the doctor are stress related, and it is estimated that approximately one million employees worldwide are absent from work every day due to stress. Stress is thought to cost US industry over $200 billion per year, and it has even been declared as one of the most lethal diseases of the 21st Century by the World Health Organization. Stress is by no means a new condition, in fact it is a throwback to the days when our primitive ancestors needed to protect themselves from predators such as sabre-toothed tigers and the like.

Encountering such a creature would trigger a primitive survival response which meant that hormones including cortisol and adrenalin were released causing the blood pressure and heart rate to ... more.

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