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Perhaps some of the gynecological diseases that plague modern westernized women have something to do with this activation of a major piece of physiological machinery hundreds of times when it may have evolved to be used only twenty times; an example of this is probably endometriosis , which is more common among women with fewer pregnancies and who start at a later age.

Once again, we ​deal with the central concept of stress physiology in explaining similar responses to being too hot or too cold, a prey ​or a predator: some parts of our body, including the heart, do not care in which direction we are knocked out of ​allostatic balance, but rather simply how much.

Extreme anger and extreme joy have different effects on reproductive physiology, on growth, most probably on the ​immune system as well; but with regard to the cardiovascular system, they have fairly similar effects.

This is the world of anxiety disorders
and Type A-ness, plus some surprises about ​unexpected links between
personality and the stress-response.